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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services*

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item. 191; -14. CARRIAGE OF MAILS BY RAILWAY. VOTE No. 14. Charges fob and incidental to — Carriage of Mails by Railway— £ Special Trains ... ... ... 1,500 Ordinary Mails ... ... ... 68,724 Additional payment to Railway Department for haulage of mail-vans, 1912-13 ... 6,956 £ £ Total—Vote No. 14 77,180 77 ,180 MAINTENANCE OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINES. VOTE No. 15. Chaeges foe and incidental to — Maintenance of Telegraph and Telephone Lines— Extra labour ... ... 30,000 Material for repairs ... ... 33,000 Rural telephones (assistance to settlers) ... 1,000 Travelling-expenses of telegraph engineers and linemen ... ... ... 11 ,000 Upkeep of s.s. "Tutanekai" ... ... 4,000 75 ,000 79 ,000 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 Total—Vote No. 15 4,000 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 1 VOTE No. 16. Chaeges foe and incidental to — Allowances— Forage ... ... 1,130 Good conduct under section 197 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 ... ... 800 Lodging to cadets and cadettes, and nonclerical officers ... ... ... 11,000 Night clerks and miscellaneous ... 1 ,700 Special allowances to officers prior to introduction of Classification Regulation 46(9) 121 Special allowance to telegraph messengers 150 Tellers and for calculation of Savings-bank interest ... ... 3,000 17 ,901 Fees— Carriage of Private Bags ... ... 950 To non-permanent postmasters for payment of pensions ... ... 250 To telephonists ... ... 750 1,950 Mechanical Appliances, Bicycles, &c.— Cash-registers for telegraph counters ... 2,277 Dickie stamp-vending machines (hire of) 250 Home savings-banks, purchase of ... 1,500 Post-marking machines ... ... 855 Purchase and hire of bicycles and motorcycles, and allowances to officers using their own machines ... ... 10,500 Typewriters, &c, and repairs to typewriters 1,500 \ -."■. < — 16,882