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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT—continued.

Number Item _ of Persons. ' VOTE No. 4.—CUSTOMS—continued. 1935-36. 1935-36. Subdivision No. I — Customs Offices and Services— |~ — 1 continued. £, £ Other Chaeges foe and incidental to —continued. Official Representative, New York— 10 Special allowance while stationed away from New Zealand ... ... ... 279 11 Travelling and general expenses ... ... 1,800 12 Overtime and meal allowances ... ... 1,400 13 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... ... 1,100 14 Printing and stationery ... ... ... 1,400 15 Prosecutions and seizures and legal expenses ... 150 16 Eent of offices ... ... ... 600 17 Rewards in connection with the protection of the revenue and the detection of offences against the Customs Acts or the Immigration Restriction Acts 325 Services rendered by other Departments— Police ... ... ... 10 19 Post and Telegraph ... ... ... 600 20 Tourist ... ... ... 41 21 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... 775 22 Testing and gauging instruments ... ... 50 23 Transfer and removal expenses ... ... 700 24 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 600 25 Typewriters, purchase of ... ... ... 55 26 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 ... 400 12,442 Total—Subdivision No. I ... 111,896 Subdivision No. II.—Customs : Miscellaneous Services. Charges foe and incidental to — 27 Compassionate allowance to the widow of the late G. E. Sollitt, Searcher ... ... ... 80 28 Customs Building, Wellington ... ... 450 29 Grant 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 ... ... ... 3 270 30 Grant to Dr. G. Graig, late Comptroller of Customs, for his services while the New Zealand delegation was in London attending His Majesty's Jubilee Celebrations ... ... ... 100 31 Grant to officer on retirement, equivalent to salary, in lieu of leave, in terms of Public Service Regulations 269 32 Refund of deposit under the Immigration Restriction Acts which had been previously forfeited ... 100 33 Refund of duty on arrowroot imported by the Presbyterian Foreign Missions Committee and disposed of for missionary purposes ... ... 10 Refund of duty and sales tax on— 34 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 ..J 20