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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT—continued.

of'peraons. Item ' 1925-26. VOTE No. 29.—CUSTOMS DBPARTMENT— 1925-26. continued. £ £ Subdivision No. I. — Customs Offices and Services— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 17 Prosecutions and seizures under the Customs Acts, and legal expenses ... ... ... 150 18 Eent of offices ... ... ... 650 If Rewards in connection with the protection of the revenue and detection of offences under the Customs Acts ... ... ... 700 20 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... 770 21 J Testing and gauging instruments and uniform trimmings ... ... ... 200 22 Transfer and removal expenses ... ... 1,100 23 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 1,000 24 Typewriters ... ... ... 75 25 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision ... 50 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 (see end of vote) — Recoveries of postage and legal £ and miscellaneous expenses ... 150 17,690 Total—Subdivision No. I ... 109,219 Subdivision No. II. —Customs : Miscellaneous Services. Charges for and incidental to — Censorship Appeal Board— 26 Chairman (also Chief Librarian, General Assembly Library, £690, and Advisory Director, Turnbull Library, £50) ... ... ... 60 27 Members' remuneration ... ... ... 40 28 Customs Building, Wellington ... ... 400 Grants— 29 To Cook and Niue Islands Governments of an amount equivalent to the Customs duties collected in New Zealand on goods afterwards shipped to those Islands ... ... 3,340 30 To International Customs Bureau, Brussels ... 220 | 31 To Main Highways Account, Revenue Fund, of an amount equivalent to the Customs duties collected on tires imported as part of the equipment of motor-vehicles and motor-cycles ... 39,200 32 To Officers (2) on retirement, equivalent to salary in lieu of leave, in terms of Public Service Regulations ... ... ... 523 33 To the widow of the late C. E. Brocket, Collector of Customs, Westport, to cover the cost of transfer of her family and effects from Westport to Christchurch ... ... ... 67 34 Immigration Restriction Act: Administrative expenses ... ... ... 16 Refund of duty on — 3£> 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 ... 12