B—7 [Ft. I]

YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1949

POST OFFICE ACCOUNT— continued

(a) Provision for increased cost-of-living bonus to annuitants. (b) To provide for Customs duty and sales tax on increased purchases of equipment from overseas. (c) To provide for manufacture of additional mail-bags. (d) To provide for increased cost of plates and additional plates for newly registered vehicles, &c. (e) Provision for issue of commemorative stamps (Royal visit) and "Islands " stamps and building up of general stocks. £5,000 estimated to be recoverable.

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1947_48. VOTE—POST AND TELEGRAPH 1948-49. WORKING-EXPENSES— continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. IX — Miscellaneous Services — £ £ £ continued Charges for and incidental to — continued Office-management expenses — Bank exchange 800 700 771 Contribution towards expenses of departmental refreshment-rooms 600 600 564 Cost-of-living bonus to annuitants, Government Superannuation Fund, and increased pension to widows and children (a) 50,000 30,000 37,580 Customs duties and sales tax (6) 376,000 259,000 241,067 Home savings-boxes, purchase of 7,000 6,000 1,281 High Commissioner's Office : clerical work, printing, stationery, postages, bills of lading, rent, &c. 2,100 1,013 2,100 Mail-bags and parcel receptacles, purchase and repair of (c) 40,000 20,000 31,477 Motor-plates in connection with registration of motor-vehicles (recoverable) (d) 11,260 3,000 1,958 Motor-vehicle licensing labels and waterproof licence-holders 2,000 6,450 4,921 New Zealand's share of the cost of International Bureaux of the Universal Postal Union and the International Telecommunications Union at Berne 3,550 1,650 2,196 New Zealand's contribution towards expenditure of Commonwealth Communications Council 1,875 2,500 2,500 Office expenses 114,250 100,050 110,170 . Postal receiving-boxes, supply of 100 100 90 Rent and leases of buildings and land for Post and Telegraph purposes 36,000 36,000 29,337 Stamps, postal notes, and documents of value, production of (part recoverable) (e) 38,000 12,000 18,171 Stationery, printing, and binding 160,000 110,000 147,616 Temporary officers : Postmen, Messengers, Exchange Attendants, and general 850,000 827,000 756,177