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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS —continued.

(a) Credits-in-aid : — Other Salaries. Charges. 1928-29. £ £ £ Subdivision I LOG .. 100 HI •• 5 5 VII .. ' 6,138 6,138 Totals .. 100 6,143 6,243

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of^Persons. Item ' VOTE No. 1.—LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS— 1928-29. continued. 1928-29. Subdivision No. VII.—General Expenses—continued. I £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 31 Fuel, light, power, and water ... ... 2,700 32 Furniture, brooms, brushware, soap, towels, linen, matches, tools, coal-buckets, and shovels (purchase and repairs) ... ... ... 2,000 33 Grant of three months' pay in lieu of leave of absence to W. Johnson, Library Attendant, on retirement ... ... ... 79 34 Hire of motor-cars for Speakers of both Houses for official purposes ... ... ... j 50 35 Laundry-work for Legislative Department ... 116 36 Meals to Messengers on late-sitting nights ... 100 37 Office equipment, &c., for Ministers'offices ... ' 200 38 Parliamentary photographic shield ... ... 30 39 Passages and expenses of witnesses attending Committee ... ... ... 10 40 Passages of— £ Members of both Houses ... ... 1,200 Members' wives ... ... 250 1,450 41 Postage and telegrams, including parliamentary papers 1,000 42 Printing of Statutes, Journals, Appendices, Bills, Order Papers, &c. (part recoverable) ... ... 11,500 43 Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition ... 100 I 44 Eailway passes and concessions to members and exmembers of the Legislature, families, relations, &c., cost of ... ... 24,522 45 Eailway passes to officers of the Legislature ... 270 46 Railway sleeping-berths for Members of Parliament 350 47 Refund to Post Office being difference between special and ordinary rates for telegrams from Members of the General Assembly ... ... ... 1,200 [ 48 Tell-tale clocks, installation of ... ... 134 49 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... j 25 J 50 Typewriters— £ Purchase of ... ... 153 | Repairs ... ... 70 J ! 223 | 51 Uniforms for messengers ... ... ... j 250 | 52 Upkeep of parliamentary grounds ... ... j 150 53 Winding and repairing clocks, &c. ... ... I 66 54 Window-cleaning, rubbish-removal, and chimneysweeping ... ... ... 390 55 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure inci- | dental to the other items of this subdivision ... 25 : 50,990 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Fuel, light, power, water, and general attendance supplied other Departments occupying Parlia- £ ment Buildings ... ... 1,088 Sale of Statutes, Journals, &c. ... 5,000 Sale of typewriters ... ... 50 ; 6,138 Total—Subdivision No. VII ... 55,173 Gross Total ... ... ... ... 99,418 Credits-in-aid (a) ... ... 6,243 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 1 :.. ... 93^175