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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1944.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS—continued.

(a) Moving furniture, £7 18s. 5d.; wreaths, £8 9s. 9d.; retaining fee for public-address system; £15 ; allowance for work and expenses incurred repairing earthquake damage, £17 18s. lOd.; taxi hire, members and staff, £2 12s. Bd.; altering and installing equipment for E.P.S., £17 15s. 5d.; cable to High Commissioner, 18s. 9d.; allowance to maintenance officer in lieu of overtime, £5 ; medical fee for members of staff under Workers' Compensation Act, £1 : total, £76 3s. lid.

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Number ofPersonB - VOTE—LEGISLATIVE—continued. 1943-44. 1942-43. 1943-441942-43 Subdivision No. VII.-General Expenses. Voted. | Expended. Charges for and incidental to — £ £ £ Advertising, newspapers, and other publications .. 400 400 232 Allowance to Police Constables in attendance during session 50 50 11 Allowance to the Leader of the Opposition .. .. 187 187 155 £ Expenses of Statutes Revision Committee .. 5 Expenses of Joint Committee on Native Trusts .. 5 — 10 Fuel, light, power, and water .. .. .. .. 3,900 3,900 3,058 Furniture— £ Purchases .. .. .. .. 600 Maintenance and repairs .. .. .. 300 900 900 790 Hire of motor-cars for Speakers of both Houses and their wives .. .. .. .. .. .. 25 25 10 Laundry-work for Legislative Department .. .. 200 200 133 Meals to messengers, &c., on late-sitting nights .. .. 75 375 250 Miscellaneous stores: Brooms, brushware, soap, towels, linen, matches, tools, coal buckets, shovels, &c. .. 450 450 468 Office equipment for Ministers' offices .. .. .. 80 80 54 Passages and expenses of witnesses attending Committees 10 10 Passages of— Members of both Houses— £ Steamer .. .. .. .. 1,400 Service car .. .. .. .. 50 Members' wives— 1,450 1,450 1,382 Steamer .. .. .. .. 300 Service car .. .. .. .. 20 320 320 212 Payment of monetary equivalent of leave due to deceased officers .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 50 66 Postage and telegrams, including parliamentary papers .. 1,200 1,200 545 Printing of Statutes, Journals, Appendices, Bills, Order Papers, Standing Orders, Statutory Regulations, &c. .. 3,500 3,000 3,162 Railway passes and concessions to members and ex-members of the Legislature, families, relations, &c., cost of .. 25,400 25,400 24,797 Railway sleeping-berths— £ Members .. .. .. .. .. 1,450 Members' wives .. .. .. .. 350 1,800 1,800 1,435 Refund to Post Office, being difference between special and ordinary rates for telegrams from members of the General Assembly .. .. .. .. .. 1,500 1,500 1,125 Supply of publications to Members of the Legislature .. 450 4-50 490 Telephone services (rents and calls): Payment to Post and Telegraph Department of difference between full rates and half rates allowed to members of the House of Representatives and Legislative Council .. .. 1,150 1,150 1,098 Train, bus, and tram fares, freights, and cartage, &c. .. 50 50 109 Travelling allowances and expenses of Members travelling to and returning from Parliament .. .. .. 2,000 350 1,595 Travelling-expenses of Speakers of both Houses during recess 20 20 Travelling-expenses and annual rail passes, Clerks of both Houses .. .. .. .. .. .. 200 200 185 Typewriters— £ Purchases .. .. .. .. 50 Maintenance .. .. .. .. 25 75 75 94 Uniforms for messengers and night-watchmen .. .. 400 400 330 Winding and repairing clocks, &c. .. .. .. 80 80 56 Window-cleaning, rubbish-removal, and chimney-sweeping 440 350 477 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision .. .. 50 50 (a) 76 Expenses of Land Development Committee investigating ' the general question of rehabilitation of deteriorated land .. 50 66