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APPENDIX. Summarized Returns of Work done in this High Commissioner's Department in the Year 1912. Number of letters received from Dominion and elsewhere ... ... ... ... 93,327 Number of letters sent to Dominion and elseyvhere ... ... ... ... ... 73,687 Number of letters received for visitors and readdressed ... ... ... ... 18,257 Book packets sent ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3,313 Rail packets sent "... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1,365 Number of despatches, memos, and letters received from Government Departments in New Zealand ... ... ' ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2,902 Number of despatches, memos, and letters sent to Government Departments in New Zealand 6,955 Number of standing orders ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 458 Number of cablegrams to and from the Dominion — Outward ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 553 Inyvard ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 636 Amount of receipts into Public Account in London ... ... £11,493,329 9s. 6d. Amounts of payments therefrom ... ... ... ... £11,489,157 2s. 2d. Number of Treasury vouchers passed for payment on Foreign Imprest Account... ... 7,589 Amount of payments made through Foreign Imprest Account ... £3,164,421 9s. 7d. Amount of pensions paid ... ... ... ... ... ... £4,109 Os. 6d. Number of orders for goods and material from Government Departments in the Dominion 589 Number of contracts ...' ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 807 Number of marine insurances effected ... ... ... .. ... ... 1,825 Amount insured ... ... ... ... ... ... ... £698,125 Number of shipments ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1,612 Bridge material, .&c, inspected only (approximate tonnage) ~. ... ... 1,218 Number of coupons paid ... ... ... ~. ... ... ... 5,750 Amount of coupons paid ... ... ~. ~, ~. ... £99,376 14s. 3d. Amount of bonds from which coupons were paid ~. ... .. ... £3,819,964 Amount of bonds matured and paid off, exchanged, converted into stock, transefrred, or cancelled and returned to New Zealand ... ~. ... ... £5,090,780 Number of bonds ... ... ... ... .. ... ... 5,779 Amount of Bonds issued for loans, advances, &c, ~. ... ... £6,854,150 Number of bonds ... ~, ~, ~. ~. ~, .... 9,593 New Zealand Government Life Assurance. Number of policies on registry ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 561 Amount insured ... ... ... ... ... ... ... £183,469 Number and amount of premiums received — Number ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 822 Amount ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... £5,163 4s. 3d. Amount of annuities paid ... ... ... ... ... ... £2,354 3s. 3d. Public Trust Office. Number of payments under trust and estates dealt with ... ... ... ... 599 Amount disbursed on account of Public Trust Office -... ... ... £41,665 ss. lid. Shipments by the High Commissioner's Department in the Year 1912, No. of Bundles, Dead-weight. Pieces, Casks, or Cases. Tons cwt. qr. lb 28,113 Steel rails ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 17,158 5 311 26,479 Rail fastenings, fangs, spikes, bed-plates, fish-plates, and fish-bolts, <fee. 1,843 17 0 15 1,712 Steel tires ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 265 3 2 6 2,963 Channel-bars ... ... ... ... ... 783 14 1 13 8,570 Iron and steel plates, bars, angles, rods, &c. ... ... ... 1,727 3 027 4,545 Steel-axle forgings, steel forgings, Arc. ... ... ... ... 570 4 2 2 143 Copper wire, Arc. ... ... ... ... ... 41 15 2 1 11,660 Pig iron _ ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 556 0 0 0 4,675 Galvanized-iron wire and bolts... ... ... ... 212 8 2 20 2,000 White-lead ... ... ... ... ... ... 100 0 2 4 5,055 Insulator-bolts ... ... ... ... ... 131 2 1 8 25,240 Machinery, cranes, chains, ropes, Arc, wheels and axles ... ... 420 6 0 27 2,175 Telegraph material ... ... ... ... ... ... 72 16 1 7 2,746 Steel coil springs ... ... ... ... ... ... 141 1 312 1,810 Defence: Shot, fuzes, cartridges, gunpowder, &c. ... ... 91 14 2 22 1,103 Springsteel ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 243 0 2 8 943 Hoop steel ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 48 9 1 4 13 Agricultural Department: Stores, &c. ... ... ... ... 4 8 0 3 10,205 Pintsch's gaslight apparatus ... ... '... ... .... 64 g ] 26 J 40 ' 150 24,482 1 0 20