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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT—continued.

Number Persons. Item VOTE No. 4. —CUSTOMS —continued. 1936-37. 1936-37. Subdivision No. I. —Customs Offices and Services —continued. £ I £ Other Charges foe and incidental to — 2 Advertising, photographs, books, newspapers, and other publications . . . . . . . . . . 30 3 Advisory Committee on Literature : Payment for services 24 4 Head Office and local offices — £ Launch-hire . . .. .. . . 325 Lighting, heating, and fuel .. . . . . 300 Sundry expenses .. .. .. .. 380 Uniforms for officers .. . . . . 250 1,255 5 Immigration Restriction Act : Administrative expenses .. 50 6 Legal expenses incurred in action taken for negligence in carriage of Mr. M. Jones's furniture from New Plymouth to Wellington .. .. .. . . . . 39 7 Office-cleaning .. . , .. . . . . 130 8 Office fittings and requisites .. . . . . .. 1,000 Official Representatives, London — 9 Special allowances while stationed away from New Zealand . . . . . . . . . , 419 10 Transfer and removal expenses of Assistant Official Representative to London and return of present officer to New Zealand .. .. .. .. 900 11 Travelling and general expenses .. . . . . 400 Official Representative, New York— 12 Special, allowance while stationed away from New Zealand . . .. . . . . .. .. 279 13 Travelling and general expenses .. .. .. 1,500 14 Overtime and meal allowances .. .. .. 1,700 15 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes .. .. .. 1,300 16 Printing and stationery .. .. .. 1,800 17 Prosecutions and seizures and legal expenses . . . . 150 18 Rent of offices .. . . . . . . . . 600 19 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— 20 Police . . . . .. .. .. . . 10 21 Post and Telegraph . . .. . . . . 1,200 22 Tourist . . . . . . . . . . , . 41 23 Telephone services (including installation, extension, maintenance, rent, and calls) . . .. . . .. 900 24 Testing and gauging instruments . . .. .. ! 50 25 Transfer and removal expenses . . . . . . j 1,000 26 Travelling allowances and expenses . . .. . . I 900 27 Typewriters, purchase of . . . . . . ... j 55 28 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental | to the other items of this subdivision.. .. .. j 11 I Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Recoveries of postage and legal and mis- £ v cellaneous expenses .. .. .. 600 16,068 Total—Subdivision No. I .. .. 128,904 Subdivision No. II.—Customs : Miscellaneous Services. Charges for and incidental to — 29 Customs Building, Wellington . . . . . . 450 30 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 .. ! 3,312 I