B—7 [Pt. I]

YEAK ENDING 31 MAKCH, 1949

POST OFFICE ACCOUNT— continued

(a) Increase due to reletting of contracts and extension and improvement of services. (b) Provision made to meet increased traffic and increased railway charges.

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1948-49. 1947-48. VOTE—POST AND TELEGRAPH WORKING-EXPENSES —continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. Ill—Conveyance of Inland Mails—continued £ £ 1 £ Charges fob and incidental to —continued Grey-mouth Hamilton Invercargill Masterton Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Palmerston North Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport Whangarei New services, &c. (all districts) 4,350 28,200 17,350 8,950 8,200 12,000 9,100 5,200 14,600 12,550 9,000 11,750 4,300 1,300 14,250 12,000 4,350 25,500 17,350 8,500 7,750 12,000 8,750 3,300 14,600 11,000 9,000 10,500 4,500 1,000 13,250 10,000 3,648 24,185 16,808 8,200 7,604 10,349 8,076 3,088 13,410 10,729 8,200 10,900 3,733 876 13,489 7,439 Total—Subdivision No. Ill (a)240,000 225,300 213,472 Subdivision No. IV—Carriage of Mails by Railway Charges for and incidental to — 1 Carriage of mails by railway — Ordinary mails Special trains and trucks (6)125,000 (6) 90,000 108,000 65,000 135,520 77,154 Total—Subdivision No. IV 215,000 173,000 212,674