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DETAILS OF THE

POST OFFICE ACCOUNT— continued

(a) £lO,OOO estimated to be recoverable from Cable and Wireless, Ltd. (b) Decrease due to appointment of a number of employees to permanent staff. Now provided for under Subdivision No. I, " Salaries : Other Salaries." (c) Greater availability of material than anticipated resulted in overexpenditure. (d) Now provided for under vote " Telegraph Extension." Underexpenditure last year due to nonarrival of material and equipment. (e) To provide for additional motor-vehicles and replacement of existing units; the amount provided in 1947-48 was not fully expended.

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VOTE—POST AND TELEGRAPH 1948-49. 1947-48. WORKING-EXPENSES—continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. V —Maintenance and Renewal of Telephone Exchange, Toll, Telegraph, and Wireless Systems £ £ £ Charges for and incidental to — Maintenance and renewal of telegraph and toll lines, wireless, and telephone exchange systems, also contingencies and all other unforeseen expenditure incidental to other items of the subdivisionCable repairs, including hire of cable steamer (part recoverable) .. Camp allowances Extra labour Material for repairs, including freight and other charges Miscellaneous Purchase of radio material (а) 20,000 10,000 (б)200,000 500,000 55,000 (d) 10,000 20,000 315,000 480,000 20,000 120,000 2,118 9,820 274,733 (c) 631,052 53,653 (d) 17,356 Less amount to be expended on telegraph and telephone construction works to be charged to vote " Telegraph Extension" 785,000 150,000 965,000 138,000 988,732 88,501 Total —Subdivision No. V 635,000 827,000 900,231 Subdivision No. VI—Motor Services and Workshops Charges for and incidental to — Motor services, &c.— Allowance to officers using their own bicycles, and to motor-cycle riders Purchase of— Motor-vehicles and bicycles Motor accessories Motor spirits and oils 3,900 (e) 325,000 55,000 105,000 3,900 225,000 50,000 90,000 3,639 (e) 55,182 55,752 114,268