B—7 [Pt. I]

YEAE ENDING 31 MAECH, 1949

POST OFFICE ACCOUNT— continued

(a) Provision for full year as compared with nine months in 1947-48 ; also increase in volume of mails carried. (b) £55,000 estimated to be recoverable.

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1948-49. 1947-48. VOTE—POST AND TELEGRAPH WORKING-EXPENSES—continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. I—Postal and Telegraph Salaries—continued £ £ £ Salaries—continued Other Salaries—continued Non-classified officers and country postmasters and telephonists, payable by salary (number 1,420) 128,500 100,000 135,300 106,800 j Total —Subdivision No. I 4,490,460 4,083,309 3,953,414 Subdivision No. II —Conveyance of Ocean and Air Mails Charges for and incidental to — Overseas services— Great Britain and other countries : land and sea transit North American overland and Atlantic transit: United States of America Payments to shipping companies Payments for carriage of mails on New Zealand regional air services in Pacific (part recoverable) Payments for carriage of mails on Empire Air-mail Service Payments for carriage of mails on TransTasman air service (part recoverable) Payments to other Administrations for carriage of mails by air Payments on behalf of other Administrations (recoverable) 10,000 3,000 18,000 8,000 (a)140,000 (b) 90,000 7,500 500 10,000 3,000 20,000 106,000 108,000 7,500 500 9,241 16,164 70,357 102,360 5,212 283