8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS I.—LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS—continued.

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item. 19' 18-9. GENERAL EXPENSES. £ £ 1908-9. Total number of officers .. 33 VOTE No. 3. Salaries — Library — Chief Librarian Assistant Librarian First Assistant in Library Second Assistant Third Assistant Binder for Parliamentary Library Attendant Messenger Mailman during Session 525; 360 | 260 260 165 198 190 175 70 2,203 Hansard Staff and Reporters — Chief Reporter (also Examiner under the Shorthand Reporters Act, £100) 10 Reporters : 3 at £350, 4 at £325, 2 at £315, 1 at £300 Hansard Supervisor (also Copy Supervisor, Government Printing Office, £240) Hansard Supervisor's Assistant Clerk to Hansard Supervisor ... Committee Reporters : 2 at £200 Extra Reporters, Select Committees Extra Assistance for Hansard ... 500 3 ,280 200 175 130 400 250 300 Officer in Charge, Parliament Buildings Attendants, Officer-in-Charge's staff: 1 at 10s. 6d., 1 at 10s., 1 at 9s. 6d., and 1 at 9s. per diem ... Gardener at 9s. per diem Night-watchman Assistant Night-watchman 5,235 425 709 156 168 156 1,614 8 9 10 4 5 6 7 Other Charges incidental to — Advertising Attendant in charge of heating apparatus and ventilators during session and assistant gardener during recess at 8s. 6d. per day Binding of Parliamentary Journals, Statutes, Hansard, &c, to replace reference library destroyed in late fire Bonus to officers in connection with the restoration of records and books lost in the fire at Parliament Buildings Charwomen Cleaning up buildings (two) previous to session Compassionate allowance to widow of Alfred Curtis, Messenger House of Representatives Conveyance of members of Parliament on Manawatu Railway, anything contained in subsection (2) of section 246 of "The Legislature Act, 1908," notwithstanding Electrician's Assistant Extra binding for books in library Extra labour, seeds, shrubs, and tools Gas, fuel, and electric lighting ... Gratuities to messengers, orderlies, library staff and attendants, including Custodian's staff ... 9,052 20 156 200 100 900 200 11 100 12 13 14 15 16 32 150 250 40 1,300 350