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STATEMENT in Detail of the EXPENDITURE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— contd.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1899-1900.

£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 64 11 2 Brought forward JLASS IV—MINISTER OF JUSTICE— continued. Vote No. 31 —Miscellaneous Services — continued. Item 2—Expenses of Urewera Commission, — Travelling allowances and expenses of Commissioners Secretary's salary Secretary's travelling allowance and expenses Fees paid to Native members of Commission (five) Sundries 150 16 8 39 18 0 32 2 6 75 0 0 19 18 6 Item 3—Extra clerical assistance, oopying, &o. Item 4—Fees to patent agents Item 5 —Fidelity guarantee premiums Item 6—Fuel, light, water, and cleaning Item 7 —Gratuity to bailiff, P. A. Conolly, on retirement Item 8—Payment to Survey Department for lithographing, &c. Item 9 —Purchase of reports and treatises for Crown Law Office Item 10—Purchase of MS. of Colenso's " Maori Lexicon " Item 11—Refund to Westland Law Society of costs, &o., of prosecution under Law Practitioners Act.. Item 12—Subscriptions to Telephone Exchanges Item 13—Travelling allowances and expenses of private secretary to Minister and other officers Item 14—Contingencies— Binding specifications, &o. Expenses of administering Licensing Laws, Census, &c. .. Freight and shipping charges Interpreting Law-costs Official Railway-ticket Official Assignees' postages Repairing clocks Salary, Postmaster, Motueka, Acting Court Officer Salary, C. C. Graham, Acting Magistrate.. Sundries Travelling-expenses Typewriting and mineograph sundries Wages (Bailffs, &c.) 317 15 8 728 1 6 38 10 0 192 19 7 1,262 16 11 100 0 0 639 12 8 51 0 0 300 0 0 22 13 6 281 11 4 153 14 5 53 19 9 39 6 9 5 9 4 47 18 5 58 1 0 60 0 0 107 10 0 6 2 6 10 0 0 33 6 8 30 8 3 33 10 4 12 4 3 10 4 4 508 1 7 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 31 £4,661 8 4 JLASS V.—POSTMASTER-GENERAL :— Vote No. 38 —Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Stationery, &c. Item 2—Special allowance to telegraph messengers Item 3 —Gas and water Item 4—Telephone-fees to non-permanent telephonists Item 5 —Compassionate allowance to widow of late H. Smith, electrician Item 6 —Compensation to Mrs. Donaghue, Maketu Item 7 —Deficiency, Post-office, Te Whariki Item 8 —Compassionate allowance, at 7s. 6d. per week, for support of child of late F. Quilicie, lineman Item 9 —Representatives of late F. Quilicie, lineman Item 10 —Miscellaneous, — Advertising and printing Carriage of private bags Cleaning and scavenging .. .. Money-order and Savings-bank fees to country Postmasters.. Allowances (tellers, interest, house, forage, R.T.P.O., shipping, &c.) Postal Inspectors' travelling-expenses Lighting and fuel (except gas) Overtime Paroels-post expenses Repairs, fittings, new buildings, &o. Contingencies Travelling- and relieving-expenses Uniform clothing Temporary letter-carriers and messengers 541 9 1 316 2 10 2,044 1 0 534 9 0 5,922 18 1 365 0 0 2,499 8 1 9,280 17 6 150 0 0 50 0 0 36 1 6 25 0 0 33 13 5 2,653 12 1 949 3 5 1,513 1 10 1,632 5 5 2,638 9 5 2,442 5 8 1,972 10 3 3,582 1 2 720 0 6 2,582 4 1 24,121 15 9 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 38 £42,484 14 4 JLASS VI.—COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS :— Vote No. 40—Customs, Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Quarantine-keepers, Auckland, Wellington, and Port Chalmers—Salaries, 1st April, 1899, to 31st March, 1900 .. Less amount contributed by Marine Department 375 10 0 36 0 0 Item 2—Quarantine Stations—Contingencies 339 10 0 38 18 2 378 8 2 Carried forward 378 8 2