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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services, CLASS IV—POSTMASTER-GENERAL AND TELE GRAPHS— continue COMMISSIONER OF Item. 18 9-80. £ s. d. £ s. d. POSTAL DEPARTMENT— confined. 1 2 3 4 5 (i 7 8 9 10 11 11! 18 II in 10 VOTE No. 84. Conveyance or Inland Mails — Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Wanganui Wellington Blenheim Nelson "Westport Greymoutk Hokitika Christchurch Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Invercargill 5.250 300 800 3,000 550 4,000 800 500 800 900 1,350 4,500 1,250 400 7,250 1,100 0 0 o o; o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total—Vote No. 84 ... 32,750 0 0 1 VOTE No. 35. Caeriage of Mails by Railway— Carriage of Mails by Railway, under special arrangement, 8 months Special Trains, 10 months 2 8,000 l,G0O 0 0 0 0 9,600 0 0 Total—Vote No. 35 ... VOTE No. 3C. Postal Contingencies— Contingencies Less proportion chargeable against Savings Bank 5,000 0 0 500 0 0 o 3 Miscellaneous — Defalcations of T. "W. Longuet, late Postmaster at Palinerston, Otago Amount of Money Order Telegrams forged by John Hodgson and A. Barnsley To adjust Accounts of J. R. Willcox, late Postmaster, Balclutha 4,500 0 381 2 0 8 G8 18 8 4 G 9 2 4,954 10 1 Total—Vote No. 3G ... 1 a a i TELEGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT. VOTE No. 37. Head Office— General Manager Assistant Secretary Accountant 15 Clerks, 1 at £265, 1 at £180, 1 at £150, 1 at £120, 2 at £105, 4 at £100, 2 at £95, 3 at £90 Mechanician Storekeeper Assistant Storekeeper White's Bay— Telegraphist and Lineman Riverton Station — Telegraphist (also Postmaster £85) Messenger 700 450 375 1,785 2S5 195 170 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 e 7 8 135 0 0 9 10 130 30 0 0 0 0