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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT —continued.

Number of Persons. Item, i VOTE No. 31 —CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT— continued. 192^ :-25. i I 1 1924-25. £ £ Subdivision No. II. — Customs : Miscellaneous Services —continued. 33 34 • 35 86 37 38 39 40 Other Charges for and incidental to — continued. Grants- continued. To Main Highways Account, Revenue Fund, of an amount equivalent to the Customs duties collected as from 1st April, 1924, on tires imported as part of the equipment of motor-vehicles and motor-cycles To Officer, in lieu of six months' leave on retirement under Public Service Regulation 65 — H. R, Spence (formerly Collector of Customs at Dunedin) Refund of duty on— Advertising folders, stationery, or similar articles, as may be approved by the Minister of Customs, sent by oversea municipal, or similar bodies, or harbour, railway, steamship, or similar organizations, for free distribution in New Zealand Baggage not fully complying with the terms of the exemption under the tariff, but being baggage and effects not for sale Bells for the Stratford Memorial Clock to be erected by the Stratford Borough Council as a War Memorial Cardboard for manufacturing purposes approved by the Minister of Customs, which would have been exempt from duty under the Customs Duties Act, 1908 Chairs for invalids, and clothing, apparatus, and other articles for persons in poor circumstances and who cannot pay the duty Chassis for motor-ambulance imported for St. John Ambulance Association, Dunedin ... Curios imported by the New Zealand Anglican Board of Missions for display in missionary exhibitions in the Dominion Flanders poppies to be sold -for relief of French war orphans and the children of the devastated regions in France, and for the benefit of returned New Zealand soldiers ... Machinery for the manufacture of dried milk imported prior to the coming into operation of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921 Memorial Champion Belt to perpetuate the memory of the late John Bidwill Miniature rifles and ammunition for same for the use of Territorials, Cadets, or Rifle Clubs Printed matter for the use of Boy Scouts, as may be approved by the Minister Printed matter of Navy League and similar patriotic societies, as may be approved by the Minister ... Printed matter, including photographs, advertising Canada and Hawaii, sent by the Canadian Government and by the Hawaii Tourist Bureau, for free distribution throughout the Dominion ... Ready-cut house imported by a returned Army sister not in good circumstances and with a dependant unable to work Sample of tobacco imported by the Canadian Government Trade Commissioner for exhibition Specially-made swimming costumes for life-saving Clubs, being of a kind which no firm in New Zealand can economically supply or make 32,500 358 56 50 50 12 20 70 41 10 42 1,748 43 5,000 44 10 45 10 46 10 47 20 48 5 49 HI 50 1 51