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1910. NEW ZEALAND.

AMOUNTS PAID TO NEWSPAPERS DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1910 (RETURN OF).

Laid on the Table of the House of Representatives by Leave.

Return of all Amounts paid to Newspapers, &c., published within the Dominion of New Zealand for Government Advertisements inserted therein, during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1910.

Name of Newspaper. Place of Publication. Amount. Akaroa Mail Alexandra Herald Ashburton Guardian Ashburton Mail Auckland Star ... Auckland Weekly News... Bay of Plenty Times Bluff Press Bruce Herald ... Budget, and Taranaki Weekly Herald Buller Miner ... Buller Post Canterbury Times Charleston Herald Cheviot News ... Clutha Leader... Colonist Coromandel County News Cromwell Argus Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph Dannevirke Advocate Dannevirke Daily Press... Dannevirke Evening News Dominion Dunstan Times East Coast Guardian Egmont Star ... Eketahuna Express Ellesmere Guardian Eltham Argus ... Evening News... Evening Post ... Evening Star ... ... Examiner Akaroa Alexandra South Ashburton ... Auckland Tauranga Bluff ... '.'.'. Z. Milton New Plymouth Westport Murchison ... Christehurch Charleston ... Cheviot Balclutha ... Nelson Coromandel... Cromwell Napier Waihi ... ... Z. Dannevirke ... £ s. d. 13 0 1 19 8 2 54 6 0 46 1 0 322 17 6 139 13 9 12 9 0 15 8 0 ' 30 6 0 23 5 0 17 11 0 1 1 0 100 4 1 5 0 0 17 3 3 42 5 6 115 8 9 9 0 9 21 5 3 159 8 0 28 16 3 68 15 0 15 9 3 1 9 3 12 16 3 20 9 3 15 6 8 13 3 35 12 6 13 16 0 40 6 5 19 2 599 1 11 401 10 0 44 6 3 Wellington . Clyde ~ Z. Z Opotiki Hawera Eketahuna ... Southbridge... Eltham Christehurch Wellington ... Dunedin Woodville ... Carried forward .., 2,458 16 i