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CLASS V.—POSTMASTER-GENERAL AND COMMISSIONER OF TELEGRAPHS— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Item. 1886-S7. MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS, AND MISCELLANEOUS— oontinued. £ 8 4 5 (5 VOTE No. 30— continued. Salaries — continued. Electrician (also Electrician and Lecturer, Torpedo Corps, £100) Mechanician, Auckland Mechanician, Dunedin . . 50 Linemen, 6 at £145, 8 at £140,7 at £135,13 at £130, 4 at £125, 8 at £120,2 at £115, 1 at £110, 1 at £96 250 200 200 6,521 9,246 7 8 9 10 11 12 Otiieb Charges— Travelling Expenses of Inspectors and Linemen Extra Labour and Material for Repairs Office Expenses, Fuel, Lights, Travelling Expenses of Telegraphists, and Contingencies Stationery, &c. Repairs to Cook Strait Cable ... Supply of paper and printing telegraph forms Initiation of Parcels Post — Hampers, boxes, bags, scales, &e. Carriage of parcels, including special delivsries—four months Gratuities for special services of Telegraphists and Linemen during Tarawera eruption 5,000 5,000 17,000 4,500 2,856 800 13 14 1,750 : 15 633 100 Less estimated credits under section 10 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1882 " 37,639 500 Total—Vote No. 30 ... 37,139 46,385 TELEGRAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. VOTE No. 31. Contingent Subsidy 350 Total—Vote No. 31 350 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. VOTE No. 32. Bluff and Stewart Island Chatham Islands Service Interprovincial Services Blind Bay Service San Francisco Service Bonus, &c, San Francisco Service Suez Services Mail Agents and Travelling Allowance Auckland Steam Services Hokitika and Southern Ports and Westport and Karamea Services Fiji Service New Zealand and Pacific Islands Direct Steam Service to Plymouth Direct Steam Service Bonuses, &c. Interprovincial Service (Direct Steam Service) Contingencies, Bonuses, Gratuities Light Dues Remitted (San Francisco Service £663, New Zealand Shipping Company £936, Shaw-Savill-Albion Company £1,040) Total—Vote No. 32 ... 265 150 5,000 240 23,334 1,000 2,000 1,750 600 11 12 13 14 15 1G 17 1,300 1,600 3,500 14,000 7,000 3,000 5,500 2,639 72,878