SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1939-40.

POST OFFICE ACCOUNT—continued.

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£ £ £ Chargeable on the Post Office Account—continued. VOTE No. .—POST AND TELEGRAPH WORKING-EXPENSES—continued. Subdivision No. IX. —Miscellaneous Services—continued. Charges for and incidental to —continued. Cost of providing coastal radio facilities (recoverable) .. 1 18,000 Cost of radio development work (recoverable) .. . . 7,000 Office-management expenses : Stamps, postal notes, and ; documents of value, production of (additional) .. ! 7,000 Purchase of equipment for aeradio services (additional) (recoverable) .. .. .. .. .. 15,000 Sundry charges— Allowances to administrative officers performing higher duties .. .. .. .. .. .. 330 Contribution to Cable and Wireless, Ltd., to enable the uniform rate for cable messages within the Empire to be reduced to local currency .. .. .. 7,706 Cost of decorations to post-office buildings in connection with the New Zealand Centennial .. .. .. 3,500 Cost of departmental exhibit in Government Court, New Zealand Centennial Exhibition (recoverable) .. 980 New Zealand Trade and Tourist Commissioner, Sydney: Proportion of office expenses .. .. .. 50 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 .. .. .. £40,980 Total—Subdivision No. IX .. .. ; 60,003 GROSS Total .. .. .. .. .. 75,028 Credits-in-aid .. .. .. 40,980 NET TOTAL—VOTE No .. — 34.048 i '