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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT —continued.

oKons. Item - j 1928-29. — VOTE No. 29.—CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT— 1928-29. continued. £ £ Subdivision No. 1. — Customs Offices and Services— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 13 Overtime and meal allowances ... ... 1,600 14 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... ... 1,000 15 Printing and stationery ... ... ... 2,500 16 Prosecutions and seizures and legal expenses ... 50 17 Rent of offices ... ... ... 740 18 Rewards in connection with the protection of the revenue and the detection of offences against the Customs Acts or the Immigration Restriction Acts ... ... ... 500 Services rendered by other Departments— 19 Internal Affairs ... ... ... 20 20 Police ... ... ... 10 21 Post and Telegraph ... ... ... 5,800 22 Tourist ... ... ... 50 23 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... 750 24 Testing and gauging instruments ... ... 50 25 Transfer and removal expenses ... ... 2,000 26 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 850 27 Typewriters, purchase of ... ... ... 50 28 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision ... 50 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Recoveries of postage and legal £ and miscellaneous expenses ... 150 19,935 Total —Subdivision No. I ... — j 119,703 Subdivision No. II. —Customs : Miscellaneous Services. Charges for and incidental to — Censorship Appeal Board — 29 Payment for services of Chairman and members ... 100 30 Compassionate allowance to widow of late A. Simpson, Searcher, Port Chalmers ... ... ... 70 31 Customs Building, Wellington ... ... i 450 Grants— 32 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 ... ... 3,026 33 To Officers on retirement, equivalent to salary in lieu of leave, in terms of Public Service Regulations ... ... ... 1,407 34 Immigration Restriction Act: Administrative expenses ... ... ... 50 Refund of duty on — 35 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 ... 10 36 | Arrowroot imported by the Presbyterian Foreign Missions Committee, and disposed of for misI sionary purposes ... ... ... 30 !