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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1949

VALUATION DEPARTMENT—continued

(а) Provision to meet accounts outstanding from 1947-48 financial year and for opening of new branch. offices. (б) Increase due to additional work on revision of districts. Estimated. Actual Receipts. 1948-49. 1947-48. 1947-48. £ £ £ Departmental receipts .. .. 93,500 89,500 60,532

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V OTE —VALUATION—continued Other Charges for and incidental to — 1948-49. 1947-48. Voted. Expended. continued £ £ £ Maps and tracings, schedules of land transactions, &c.— £ New maps .. .. .. 600 Maintenance .. .. .. 900 1,500 2,000 1,347 Motor-cars — Purchase of .. 2,500 2,500 902 Maintenance of 1,600 1,200 1,284 Office expenses 2,020 1,910 1,627 Office fittings and requisites (a) 1,900 1,500 931 Overtime and meal allowances 3,000 4,050 3,184 Payment of monetary equivalent of leave to dependants of deceased officers 10 10 Payment of proportion of cost of training rural field cadets 723 , , Payments to the Post and Telegraph Department (6) 2,500 1,850 2,421 Printing and stationery 2,800 2,000 2,825 Removal of offices 50 50 3 Rent (a) 3,450 3,320 2,871 Transfer and removal expenses 600 300 571 Travelling allowances and expenses (b) 16,200 13,000 14,124 Valuation of Land Act, 1925, section 47 : acquisition of land under section 4, Valuation of Land Amendment Act, 1933 10 10 Contingencies 10 10 TOTAL .. 84,673 67,040 63,442 208,868 171,494 171,276