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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1945

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS—continued

[a) Taxi hire, members and staff, £4 7s. lid.; wreaths, £4 45.; air passages, members, £15 12s. Od.; rotaining fee for publicaddress system, £15 ; installing public-address system for opening of Parliament, £9 65.; medical fee for members of staff under Workers' Compensation Act, £2; cable to High Commissioner, 12s. 3d.; moving timber, £1 : total, £52 2s. Bd.

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Number 194-3-44 °*f er80na - VOTE—LEGISLATIVE—continued 1944-45. J 1944-451943-44 „ , . . %T T/TT n , „ Expended. Subdivision No. V11. —General Expenses : Charges foe and incidental to— £ £ £ Advertising, newspapers, and other publications .. 300 400 264 Allowance to Police Constables in attendance during session 50 50 18 Allowance to the Leader of the Opposition .. .. 187 187 187 Expenses of Select Committees of the House sitting during the recess .. .. .. .. .. 200 Fuel, light, power, and water .. .. .. .. 4,850 3,900 4,233 Furniture — £ Purchases .. .. .. .. 600 Maintenance and repairs .. .. .. 300 900 900 821 Hire of motor-cars for Speakers of both Houses and their wives .. .. .. .. .. .. 25 25 18 Laundry-work for Legislative Department .. .. 200 200 128 Meals to messengers, &c., on late-sitting nights .. .. 75 75 40 Miscellaneous stores: Brooms, brushware, soap, towels, linen, matches, tools, coal buckets, shovels, &c. .. 450 450 421 Office equipment for Ministers' offices .. .. .. 80 80 104 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 1,372 Steamer .. .. .. .. 300 Service car .. .. .. .. 20 320 320 309 Payment of monetary equivalent of leave due to deceased officers .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 50 Postage and telegrams, including parliamentary papers .. 1,100 1,200 783 Printing of Statutes, Journals, Appendices, Bills, Order Papers, Standing Orders, Statutory Regulations, &c. .. 4,500 3,500 4,555 Railway passes and concessions to members and ex-members of the Legislature, families, relations, &<?., cost of .. 26,000 25,400 25,031 Railway sleeping-berths— £ Members .. .. .. .. .. 1,250 Members' wives .. .. .. .. 350 1,600 1,800 1,497 Refund to Post Office, being difference between special and ordinary rates for telegrams from members of the General Assembly .. .. .. .. .. 1,500 1,500 1,500 Supply of publications to Members of the Legislature .. 450 450 402 Telephone services (rents and calls): Payment to Post and Telegraph Department of difference between full rates j / and half rates allowed to members of the House of Representatives and Legislative Council .. .. 1,150 1,150 1,145 Train, bus, and tram fares, freights, and cartage, &c. .. 100 50 92 Travelling allowances and expenses of members travelling to and returning from Parliament .. .. .. 1,000 2,000 652 Travelling-expenses of Speakers of both Houses during recess 20 20 1 Travelling-expenses and annual rail passes, Clerks of both Houses 200 200 186 Typewriters— £ Purchases .. .. .. .. 75 Maintenance .. .. .. .. 25 100 75 236 Uniforms for messengers and night-watchmen .. .. 150 400 368 Winding and repairing clocks, &c. .. .. .. 80 80 76 Window-cleaning, rubbish-removal, and chimney-sweeping 440 440 391 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision .. .. 50 50 (a) 52 Expenses of Statutes Revision Committee .. .... 5 5 Expenses of Joint Committee on Native Trusts .. .... 5 5