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Return showing the Quantity and Value of Paper, Envelopes, &c., issued to the Government Printing Office during the Year 1885.

Number of Vouchers examined, Amount of Deductions made, and the Total Amount passed for Payment during 1885.

Return of the Value of Printing and Binding executed at the Lyttelton Gaol during the Year ended 31st December, 1885.

{Approximate Cost of Paper. —Preparation, nil; printing (1,375 copies), £5 14s. Gd.J

Authority: Geokge Didsbuby, Government Printer, Wellington.—lBB6.

Quantity. Description. Amount. Quantity. Description. Amount. E. q. 9 0 115 10 Hand-made post folio .. Doublo post folio, cream wove, 481b. Double post folio (money orders), 481b. 8vo. note, large, 4Jlb. .. 4to. letter, 101b. Foolscap— Cream laid, 14£lb. 181b. „ hand-made, 181b... Buff double Yellow wove double Blue wove double Coloured double, 261b. Coloured wove double Demy— Coloured Blue laid Yellow wove doublo Hand-made Toned double Royal— Yellow wove, printing Coloured Hand-made .. „ superfine Imitation hand-made „ „ superfine Medium, hand-made Imperial— Hand-made Imitation hand-made Cartridge, 601b. £ s. d. 14 13 6 E. q. 10 0 10 0 31 0 Cartridge, double demy, glazed, buff Doublo imperial, brown Demy blotting-paper £ s. A. 14 5 0 12 1 6 30 0 0 137 18 3 40 0 18 0 0 8 16 6 4 4 6 5,546 19 7 Total paper 63 12 15 5 1,200 31,000 81,000 91,000 2.3,000 8,000 Envelopes— 15in. x lOin. Demy, cream wove Foolscap, cream laid No. 7, cream laid Buff, glazed, foolscap note 10 5 10 12 122 0 252 0 1,779 10 ,172 0 26 0 497 0 4 3 8 5 6 6 136 13 0 107 2 2 1,669 0 6 644 12 0 14 6 0 341 13 9 6 8 0 23 10 3 45 11 3 29 11 6 11 11 11 2 8 0 7,000 10,000 Cards— Double small large Sundry items 2 9 0 5 18 2 5 6 67 0 120 10 351 0 118 0 385 0 43 11 0 91 10 0 206 4 3 166 4 0 346 10 0 Total envelopes, &c. .. 128 17 1 ,203 0 120 0 12 10 59 0 18 10 5 0 9 10 1,019 14 6 68 2 6 26 17 6 187 6 6 3118 0 6 16 8 17 16 3 7,111 5,728 Parchments, 118 rolls Pasteboards 523 1 6 35 10 0 Total parchments, &c. 558 11 6 Summary— Paper Envelopes, &e. Parchments, &c. 5,546 19 7 128 17 1 558 11 6 26 10 3 10 44 0 113 19 0 9 8 3 48 8 0 Total 6,234 8 2

Period. Number. Deductions. Amount passed. Examined during the month o£ January „ » February „ „ March „ „ April May June July „ August „ „ September .. „ „ October „ „ November .. „ „ December .. 431 283 454 397 432 201 307 G04 487 294 400 226 £ s. d. 7<J 8 8 10 17 9 2 17 9 3 2 5 5 10 11 2 6 6 5 12 6 8 8 11 7 8 6 17 3 10 27 17 7 14 16 7 £ s. a. 2,219 7 1 816 16 1 1,110 11 7 901 11 5 1,454 1 1 740 11 2 1,125 16 1 1,657 !) 10 1,340 8 5 930 15 2 845 1 5 1,275 11 6 Totals 4,576 185 11 11 14,418 0 10

Department. Numbor ol Copies. Number of Jobs. Value. jovornment Printing Department Prisons Department 1,160,479 43,086 403 95 £ s. d. 581 16 0 134 10 6 1,204,165 498 716 G 6