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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1909-1910.

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

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: , £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 15,340 1 9 Brought forward CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— contimied. Vote No. 15—Miscellaneous Services — continued. Item 14—Expenses of Superintendent of Electric Lines visiting Melbourne in connection with Wireless Telegraph Conference Item 15—Fees for certificates of age .. .. .. Item 16—Further compassionate allowanoe to Mrs. McPhail, widow of Driver McPhail, killed Item 17—Further gratuity to Mrs. Longton, widow of Messenger Longton, killed on duty Item 18—Grant to W. MoNiokle, Postmaster, Bull's, to assist in refurnishing after fire Item 19—Interpreters' fees Item 20—Legal expenses Item 21—Light, fuel, and water Item 22—Lodging-allowances to cadets and cadettes.. Item 23—Motor-lorry service, purobase of plant Item 24—New Zealand's share of the cost of the International Postal and Telegraph Bureau, Berne, for the year 1908 Item 25—New plates and dies for printing stamps Item 26—Office expenses .. Item 27—Overtime Item 28—Parcel-post expenses Item 29—Postal Inspectors'travelling-expenses Item 30—Postmarking-maohines for various offioes Item 31—Postage-stamp and other paper Item 32 —Printing, binding, e&o. Item 33—Printing-inks .. Item 34 —Purchase and hire of bicycles, and allowances to offioers using their own maohines Item 35—Refund of amount of newspaper postage in default by Searchlight newspaper Item 36—Rent of premises— "j Rent of Parcels-post Office, Auckland, from 13th July, 1907, at £350 per annum Rent of premises for clearing-room, Wellington, from 15th July, 1907, at £550 per annum Rent of premises for Superintendent of Eleotric Lines Branch, Wellington, at £650 per annum Rent of premises for Parcels Office and Dead Letter SOffice, Wellington, at £460 per annum Rent of premises for storage of material, &c, from 1st June, 1907, at £260 per annum Rent of premises for Post-Office Savings-Bank, Wellington, at £1,000 per annum .. .. Rent of sundry small offices throughout the Dominion £1,830 .. .. J Item 37—Repairs, fittings, new buildings, efco. Item 38—Speoial allowances to telegraph message-boys auring their first year's service .. .. • • • • • • Item 39—Special allowanoe of 5s. per week to 100 telegraph message-boys Item 40—Stamp-printing ana other stamp machinery Item 41—Stationery, efec .. .. .. •• •• Item 42 —Temporary officers, letter-oarriers, ana messengers .. Item 43—Travelling, removal, and relieving expenses Item 44—Travelling allowances and expenses of officers, magistrates, registrars, police, an3 pensioners in oonneotion with old-age pensions Item 45—Uniform olothing 30 10 0 18 16 6 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 11 16 6 100 1 4 9,472 2 10 5,637 19 4 600 0 0 189 15 11 549 12 11 2,502 18 9 5,540 11 8 6,392 7 2 1,303 4 11 753 10 6 2,101 4 11 12,504 11 10 227 6 5 2,887 15 7 10 7 11 3,171 15 10 4,317 4 6 1,285 0 0 461 13 6 11 15 6 12,913 5 11 9,476 10 2 6,499 3 11 44 5 3 4,049 10 1 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 15 £108,605 1 5 CLASS VI.—NATIVE DEPARTMENT :— Vote No. 24 —Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1 —Compassionate allowance to 'widow of late Judge Edger, equal to one year's salary, as recommended by the Publio Petitions Committee Item 2—Compensation to Judge W. G. Hair, in recognition of services rendered, equal to one year's salary, as recommended by the Public Petitions Committee .. Item 3—Expenses in re purchase of land: to provide for wants of former Native owners of Waiohau N o. 1b Block, of whioh they were aeprived by a fraudulent sale, and which is now heia by a subsequent bona fide purcl laser under the Land Transfer Aot—additional • • 550 0 0 517 0 0 27 9 0 Carried forward 1,094 9 0