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CLASS VIII.—POST AND TELEGEAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

No. of Officers. Item. 1903-4. 1903-4. POSTAL AND TELEGEAPH SALARIES— continued. VOTE No. 35— continued. £ Non-clerical Division — continued. 39 40 1,650 Country Postmasters Salary of master of cable-steamer from 1st August, 1903, to 31st March, 1904. at £400 per annum 33,000 267 310,427 310,427 2,401 Total—Vote No. 35 TELEGRAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. VOTE No. 36. Pacific Cable —New Zealand's proportion of estimated deficiency 10,000 10,000 Total—Vote No. 36 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 8 4 5 8 7 s 9 10 11 12 18 14 15 16 17 18 19 VOTE No. 37. Bluff and Stewart Island Services .. Invercargill and Te Oneroa Chatham Islands Service Blind Bay Service San Francisco Service (three-weekly) Cost of Transit from San Francisco to New York and from New York to Queenstown of Homeward Mails Interprovincial Service (San Francisco Service) Suez Services Mail Agents and Travelling-allowance Auckland Steam Services Hokitika and Southern Ports Service Westport and Karamea and Little Wanganui Services ... Fiji Service New Zealand and Pacific Islands Service Great Barrier Service Vancouver Service Wellington and Pelorus Sound Service Wellington-Motueka Service Salary, .Resident Agent, San Francisco (also £50 from Department of Commerce and Industries) ... Postal Union Transit Charges Gratuities for the Conveyance of Letters and Printed Matter Landing and shipping Mails 245 300 300 125 17,500 6,132 4,500 4,000 1,000 1,140 600 400 1,690 1,200 250 200 365 475 20 21 50 700 22 12,000 600 Total—Vote No. 37 53,772