B—7 [Pp. I]

YEAE ENDING 31 MARCH, 1949

POST OFFICE ACCOUNT— continued

(a) Refund of value of stamps irregularly removed from holiday pay card, £5 14s. Bd.; grant for attending to broken pole after motor accident, £3 4s. lid.; reward for rescuing departmental property from fire, £2 3s. 4d.; annual donation to Hanmer Springs Volunteer Fire Brigade, £5 ; grants for salvaging two departmental cars at Tatapouri, £9 3s. lid.; payment for salvaging departmental vehicle and paint after vehicle left road and capsized down hill, £7 10s.; grant to four officers for services rendered when a departmental truck was destroyed by fire in the Auckland Garage, £5 ; grant for designing uniforms, badges, &c, £10; donation to Nelson Fire Brigade's Recreation Fund in recognition of services rendered during fire in transit flat, £5 55.; fees for patent of " Saville " postmarking-machine, £2 155.; reward for returning spare wheel of departmental vehicle, £1 ; compensation for loss of material, £4 45.; reward for saving two telephones from fire at Ranfurly, 10s. ; work performed on Government Court, Industries Fair, Christchurch, £l3 10s. ; purchase of material for departmental float at Otago Centennial Celebrations, £6 17s. lOd.: total, £Bl 18s. Bd.

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VOTE—POST AND TELEGRAPH 1948-49. 1947-48. WORKING-EXPENSES— continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. IX — Miscellaneous Services —continued Charges for and incidental to — continued Contingencies Refund of unexpended portions of charges where services discontinued £ 150 7,000 £ 150 30,000 £ (a) 82 28,966 7,150 30,150 29,048 Total—Subdivision No. IX 2,236,815 1,886,157 2,059,455 TOTAL i. 9,391,875 8,777,154 8,771,540