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RETURN showing the QUANTITY and VALUE of WORK executed at the GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE for the several Departments, during the Year ended 30th June, 1873.

Department, &c. Number OE Value. Impressions. £ s. d. Audit 3,956 20 7 5 Armed Constabulary... 22,094 16 2 0 Attorney-General 500 4 7 6 Annuities 131,455 128 3 7 Colonial Secretary—Miscellaneous 17,000 98 18 2 „ Gazette ... 336,939 857 13 2 Customs 72,084 60 14 4 Colonial Architect 1,196 32 14 8 Crown Lands 13,819 33 14 4 Commissioner of Native Reserves 1,500 10 0 „ Confiscated Lands 3,250 3 4 0 Defence 25,295 33 6 8 Distilleries ... 12,281 15 5 10 Governor's Establishment 2,800 3 17 0 Geological ... ... ... General Assembly :— 19,116 166 10 6 House of Representatives—Order Paper 39,904 211 7 6 „ Parliamentary Papers 616,055 2,341 18 10 „ Reports 1,148 19 4 6 „ Journal 18,538 226 15 6 „ Statutes 307,832 625 14 6 „ Miscellaneous 17,567 59 3 5 Legislative Council—Order Paper ... ,, Papers and Reports 26,113 127 3 9 198 14 4 18,869 „ Journal 8,501 196 19 2 „ Miscellaneous... 3,361 13 0 0 Bills 64,160 1,711 11 7 Mansard 348,916 1,222 19 8 Inspector of Stores ... 14,337 16 4 4 Immigration 115,936 74 12 8 Inspector of Militia and Volunteers Judicial 6,956 10 9 6 268 5 3 149,506 Land Transfer 25,860 36 15 10 Miscellaneous 13,469 81 1 2 Marine 15,101 22 17 2 Native 100,981 317 17 0 Native Land Court ... 4,000 27 14 0 Postal 291,503 290 1 8 ,, Money Order Branch ... 165,269 137 16 0 „ Savings Bank Branch ... 69,009 75 7 8 Printing • ... Public Works 16,214 20 19 2 53,151 244 14 4 Public Trustee 8,300 10 7 4 Registrar-General 122,448 346 3 6 Stamp 41,528 120 14 0 Telegraph ... 1,120,660 613 14 8 Treasury 446,152 420 14 7 Patents Office 1,732 26 5 0 Totals 4,916,251 11,593 6 9 Number of pages, 11,253.