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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT —continued.

Nn T Item 1937-38. Persons - VOTE No. 4. —CUSTOMS —continued. 1937-38. Subdivision No. 7 —Customs Offices and Services —continued. £ £ Other Charges foe and incidental to —continued. 15 Overtime and meal allowances .. .. . ■ 2,000 16 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes .. .. .. 1,300 17 Printing and stationery . . . . .. . . 2,000 18 Prosecutions and seizures and legal expenses . . . . 150 19 Rent of offices .. ■■ 1,040 20 Rewards in connection with the protection of the revenue and the detection of offences against the Customs Acts or the Immigration Restriction Acts . . . . .. 325 21 Services rendered by Post and Telegraph Department .. , 1,200 22 Telephone services (including installation, extension, maintenance, rent, and calls) .. .< .. .. 1,125 23 Testing and gauging instruments . . . . . . 50 24 Transfer and removal expenses . . . . . . 500 25 Travelling allowances and expenses . . .. . . 900 26 Typewriters, purchase of .. . . . . •. 125 27 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision. . . . . . 25 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote)— Recoveries of postage and legal and mis- £ cellaneous expenses .. . . .. 400 18,715 Total—Subdivision No. I .. .. 145,126 Subdivision No. II. —Customs : Miscellaneous Services. Charges for and incidental to — 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 . . 3,646 30 Grant to widow of deceased officer .. .. .. 25 31 Medical expenses of officer injured whilst on duty . . 15 32 Payment to Otago Harbour Board of amount to cover cost of special internal partitions and fittings in new wharf office for Customs Department at Dunedin . . .. 500 33 Payment to Wellington Harbour Board of amount to cover cost of special internal partitions and fittings in new wharf office for Customs Department at Wellington .. 750 34 Refund of duty payable on apple, pear, and quince trees imported from Australia for planting in fireblight-free area of Otago and under such conditions as may be approved by the Minister .. . . . . . . 100 35 Refund of duty on arrowroot imported by the Presbyterian Foreign Missions Committee and disposed of for missionary purposes • • ■ • • • • • 10 36 Refund of duty on raspberry and black currant fruit pulp imported under conditions determined by the Minister of Customs .. . • ■ ■ • • • • • • 3,500 Refund of duty and sales tax on— 37 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 I in New Zealand, . . . ■ ■ ■ • • • j