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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1909-1910.

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

60

Brought forward £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1,094 9 0 CLAS8 VI.—NATIVE DEPARTMENT— continued. Vote No. 24—Miscellaneous Services— continued. Item 4—Expenses of Native Land Commission (additional) — Cleaning Payment to Printing and Stationery Department for maps and plans Salary of R. W. Hill, Secretary to Commission, 1st February to 5th Maroh, 1909 Servioes of draftsman Travelling - allowance of officers connected with Commission— R. W. S. Ballantyne A. G. Holland W. Pitt Tiweka Anaru 2 0 0 22 8 6 14 10 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 9 10 0 42 17 6 2 0 0 Travelling - expenses of officers connected with Commission— R. W. S. Ballantyne A. G. Holland W. Pitt Tiweka Anaru 56 7 6 0 14 0 5 5 6 8 8 3 1 6 6 Translating reports !into Maori—Amount paid to H. M. Stowell Witnesses' expenses .. Sunaries 175 10 0 15 18 6 0 16 6 i Item 5 —Gratuities for consolidation of Native Aots— J. W. Salmond J. Christie H. R. H. Balneavis 80 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 Item 6—Payment to satisfy olaim of Taiaroa family to land at Milford Haven Item 7 —Payment to Survey Department for preparation of plans Item 8 —Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Item 9—Telephones 100 0 0 428 18 9 48 13 3 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 34 £1,976 9 4 CLASS VIL—JUSTICE DEPARTMENT :— Vote No. 34—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Advertising, purchase of books, periodicals, and copying-apparatus Item 2—Compensation to Lieutenant - Colonel Gudgeon for loss of office in the Government service, equal to one year's salary Item 3—Compiling and printing of Justices' Hand-book Item 4 —Expenses under Shorthand Reporters Act— Salary of S. Spragg, 1st April, 1909, to 31st March, 1910 Item 5—Expenses under Habitual Drunkards Act— Maintenance of inmates of retreats Travelling-expenses Sundries 70 11 2 500 0 0 100 0 0 1,063 16 5 126 10 11 17 9 7 Item 6 —Expenses under the Juries Act, 1908 Item 7 —Extra olerioal and other assistance, copying and interpreting Item 8—Fees to Patent Office Agents Item 9 —Fidelity-guarantee premiums Item 10—Fuel, light, water, cleaning, freight, cartage, office equipment, and maintenance of Court grounds and offices .. Item 11—Grant to W. Jolliffe for compilation of index to Consolidated Statutes Item 12—Legal expenses Item 13—Payments to Printing Office for Patent Office Gazette Item 14—Postage and telegrams and rent of boxes Item 15—Proportion of oost of administering licensing laws in districts where the Counties Act is not in operation— Taumarunui Bay of Plenty Wallace 421 6 0 1,047 16 2 88 7 6 234 6 3 1,806 5 6 50 0 0 358 0 6 311 10 0 1,469 9 6 8 17 3 51 7 7 ; 0 3 3 Carried forward 7,725 17 7