B—7 [Pt. I]

DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS—continued

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VOTE—LEGISLATIVE—continued 1946-47. 1945-46. Subdivision No. VII. —General Expenses Voted. Expended. Charges for and incidental to — £ £ £ Allowance to Police Constables in attendance " during session .. .. ■ .. Allowance to the Leader of the Opposition .. Expenses incidental to rearrangement of accommodation, public functions, obsequies, &c. .. ... Expenses of Select Committees of the House sitting during the recess Furniture — £ Purchases .. .. .. 600 Maintenance and repairs .. 300 Hire of motor-cars for Speakers of both Houses and their wives Meals to Messengers, &c., on late-sitting nights and meal allowances Miscellaneous stores: brooms, brushware, soap, cleaning-material, matches, tools, coal-buckets, shovels, &c. Office equipment for Ministers' offices Office expenses Passages and expenses of witnesses attending Committees Passages of— Members of both Houses— £ Steamer .. .. .. 1,400 Service car .. .. 50 Members wives 50 187 100 350 900 25 200 450 50 6,200 10 1,450 320 50 900 6,825 24,800 1,600 50 187 100 10 900 25 150 450 723 6,030 10 j> 1,770 50 900 4,500 26,000 1,600 26 187 10$ 1,145 24 200 911 672 6,707 Steamer .. .. .. 300 Service car .. .. 20 Payment of monetary equivalent of leave due deceased officers Payments to Post and Telegraph Department Printing of Statutes, Journals, Appendices, Bills, Order Papers, Standing Orders, Statutory Regulations, &c. .. Railway passes and concessions to members and ex-members of the Legislature, families, relations, &c., cost of .. Railway sleeping-berths — £ Members .. .. .. 1,250 Members' wives .. .. 350 1,672 30 918 6,941 24,969 1,433