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Return of the Value of Printing and Binding executed at the Government Printing Department during the Year ending 31st December, 1885.

Return of the Number and Classification of the Employés in the Government Printing Office during the Year ending 31st December, 1885.

Printing. Department. Number of Number Authors' Copies. of Pages. 'Corrections. Value. Binding. Totals. Audit .. Colonial Secretary— Gazette Stock Miscellaneous Constabulary Customs Marine Crown Lands Crown Law Defence Education General Assembly— House of Representatives— Order Paper Papers Journals Miscellaneous Legislative Council-— Order Paper Journals and Appendix Miscellaneous Joint Account Bills Hansard Statutes Geological Goldfields Governor's Establishment Insurance Justice Bankruptcy Land Transfer Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals .. Miscellaneous Native Post and Telegraph Money Order and Savings Banks Printing Prisons Property-tax Public Trustee Public Works .. Railways Registrar-General Stamp Stationery Store Survey Treasury 12,253 23 Hours. 2 £ s. a, 14 12 9 s s. a. 13 17 6 £ s. d. 28 10 3 579,310 43,610 49,292 02,300 143,520 16,737 64,850 1,612 16 158 250 46 87 275 296 20 5 15 2 4 2,323 5 9 21 17 0 58 4 9 369 5 3 70 4 3 40 8 0 122 16 6 430 16 0 22 4 5 13 1 1 81 10 3 203 13 9 4 5 6 102 12 3 13 19 6 10 7 9 117 6 6 2,754 1 9 44 1 5 71 5 10 450 15 6 273 18 0 44 13 6 225 8 9 13 19 6 47 19 6 289 2 6 47,121 110,205 68 328 4 107 3711 9 171 16 0 60,622 260,104 300 27,389 416 2,902 468 128 61 1,297 153 5 290 0 0 3,075 4 8 326 18 0 41 8 6 17 13 10 498 2 11 27 5 9 32 11 6 307 19 10 3,573 7 2 354 3 9 74 0 0 18,240 11,650 3,837 315,417 117,9GG 193,266 61,397 20,023 23,433 1,282 403,505 210,954 38,720 56,125 77,530 382,188 275,966 3,392,620 1,152,807 47,684 8,050 468,496 19,290 105,022 245,589 374,541) 121,058 41,172 21,081 510,907 141 438 80 684 1,505 3,666 618 325 181 18 117 107 9 80 53 612 467 1,306 239 68 33 155 7 567 211 328 36 17 54 136 14 84 12 1.20 2,342 3,866 98 9 57 3 20 72 88 173 105 0 6 282 18 6 18 15 6 379 2 0 1,175 12 11 3,609 16 8 552 14 10 124 5 0 33 5 9 4 0 0 80 17 6 101 7 6 12 2 0 43 0 0 54 2 0 282 0 0 504 7 10 1,482 16 10 343 16 3 21 5 9 14 15 8 211 12 3 7 6 6 371 6 6 280 10 8 805 9 0 74 1 6 15 19 6 34 10 6 185 11 6 4 0 11 29 5 10 11 11 3 133 4 6 101 19 9 847 14 1 587 15 6 87 3 0 24 6 3 13 2 0 38 5 9 50 19 9 10 13 6 108 18 9 11 11 0 44 6 6 208 10 6 368 4 0 170 6 0 19 18 6 24 5 0 420 17 3 3 10 6 314 2 0 178 5 3 48 6 6 27 14 0 560 9 5 70 0 10 284 7 6 109 1 5 312 4 4 30 6 9 512 6 6 1,277 12 8 4,457 10 4 1,140 10 4 211 8 0 57 12 0 17 2 0 119 3 8 152 7 8 22 16 0 161 18 9 65 13 0 326 6 6 712 18 4 1,851 0 10 514 2 8 41 4 8 39 0 8 638 9 6 10 17 0 685 8 6 458 15 11 853 16 0 101 15 6 576 8 11 104 11 4 469 19 0 2 26 3 247 199 112 8 1 9 Totals 10,209,434 18,920 9,536 18,176 10 3 6,399 4 1 24,575 14 4

I L c O 1 H3 CD <3 u o a <s iO O u O O & © O 'A a © s P ha Jverseers headers Compositors .. Machinists, pressmen, paperwetters, cutters, and engineer 3ookbinders, including one over3 3 32 7 3 3 3G 8 3 3 41 8 3 4 45 8 3 4 55 8 3 5 51 8 3 5 I 62 8 3 5 59 8 3 5 51 8 3 4 45 8 3 4 47 8 3 4 -li, 8 10 10 11 I U 11 11 11 11 11 12 12 12 seer females in Binding Branch Apprentices, machine and errand boys Assistants itereotypers 20 33 20 31 20 33 21 32 22 35 22 37 22 35 22 35 22 40 21 37 22 37 2J 40 6 1 6 1 6 1 G 1 6 1 6 1 6 1 6 1 I G 1 G 1 6 1 Totals 115 118 126 131 145 144 ! I 153 I I 150 I I 147 I I 137 140 142