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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1944.

VALUATION DEPARTMENT—continued.

(a) .Lower rental payable last year for Wellington office, offset this year by higher rental for Auckland office. (b) Reduction duo to less revision work. (c) Number of officers, 34. Mileage allowance, £756 17s. (id.; car hire, £159 4s. 5d.; travelling-allowances, £566 3s. 7d.; travelling-expenses, £450 7s. 3d. Kainrifß Other Estimated. Recovered, salaries. charges. Total 1942-43 1042-43. (d) Credits-m-aid .. .. .. .. .. 2,800 13,560 16,360 16,680 15,121 Totals .. .. .. .. .. 2,800 13,560 16,360 16,680 15,121

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Number of Persons. 1942-43. 1943 44. 1943 441942-43 V OTE.—VALUATION—continued,. Vote(i Expended. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. £ £ £ Removal of offices .. .. .. .. .. 50 100 43 Rent .. .. (a) 2,520 2,550 (a) 2,097 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) .. .. .. 500 600 480 Transfer and removal expenses .. .. 50 150 76 Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. .. (6) 2,000 3,800 (o) 1,933 Typewriters— Maintenance of .. .. .. 40 40 8 Purchase of .. .. . . .. .. 120 Valuation of Land Act, 1925, Section 47 : Acquisition of land under Section 4, Valuation of Land Amendment Act, 1933 .. .. .. .. .. 10 10 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote .. .. .. 10 10 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — £ Land-tax Department .. .. .. 13,380 Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, Section 58 — Expenses of levying hospital rates in Sounds and Taupo Counties and in Waiheke Island .. .. .. 180 13,560 11,990 17,200 10,350 Gross Total .. .. ... .. 41,919 49,880 40,749 Credits-in-aid (d) .. .. .. .. 16,360 16,680 15,121 NET TOTAL .. .. .. .. 25,559 33,200 25,628