B—7 [Pt. I]

YEAE ENDING 31 MAECH, 1948

STAMP DUTIES DEPARTMENT—continued

(a) Includes cost of calculating machines. (b) Provision made for equipment, &c., not supplied prior to 31st March, 1947. (c) Balance not cleared prior to 31st March, 1947. (d) Installation of new machine not proceeded with. (e) Transfers due to retirement of officers. (/) Includes expenses incurred on transfer of officers for relieving duties. \g) Exchange on cheques, Is. 6d. ; exchange on sterling, Is. 2d.; refund duty on duplicate documents, £1 lis : total, £1 13s. Bd.

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1946-47. 1947-48. VOTE—STAMP DUTIES—continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. I—Stamp Duties —continued £ £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to —eld. Interest on succession duty overpaid 300 200 272 Office equipment, fittings, and requisites, &c. (a) 1,650 1,100 (b) 499 Office expenses 1,350 1,750 1,022 Overtime and meal allowances 2,350 2,600 2,340 Payments to the Post and Telegraph Department 2,400 2,125 2,371 Printing and stationery 2,250 1,500 1,878 Reduction in succession duty payable in the estate of Hugh Mowbray Howard Tripp, deceased, and interest thereon 1,022 Refund of the death duty paid on the estate of James Maurice Anderson, deceased "106 Remission of interest on death duties on soldiers' estates 100 100 116 Rent of offices 4,650 4,750 (c) 2,798 Stamp-production (printing) 2,000 2,000 1,777 Stamping machinery 50 550 (d) 9 Transfer and removal expenses (e) 600 500 136 Travelling expenses and allowances 450 200 (/) 443 Valuation fees 150 250 131 Contingencies .. .. .. 5 5 (9) 2 Grant of equivalent of death duties paid in England and Australia on estate of Robert Leslie Orbell, deceased 202 202 Grant of equivalent of death duties paid in England on estate of Francis Alexander James Scott, deceased 31 31 Grant of equivalent of succession duties paid on estate of Malcolm Ferguson, deceased .. 50 Refund of amusements-tax .. 5 Refund of duty on agreement for sale and purchase and memorandum of transfer .. 8 8 Refunds of overseas-passenger duty paid by officers returning to Fiji from furlough in New Zealand, and by officers transferred to Samoa or Cook Islands 5