B—7 [PT. I]

YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1947

STAMP DUTIES DEPARTMENT—continued

(а) Urgent replacements and additions. (б) Balance not cleared prior to 31st March, 1946. (c) Cost of new dies and installation of new machine. (d) Transfers due to retirement of officers. (e) Number of officers, 9. Travelling-allowances, £32 ; travelling-expenses, £65. (/) Exchange on cheques, 25.; refund of mortgage fees, 65.: total, Bs.

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VOTE—STAMP DUTIES —continued 1946-47. 1945-46. Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. I —Stamp Duties —continued £ £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to —ctd. Interest on succession duty overpaid 200 200 67 Office equipment, fittings, and requisites, &c. (a) 850 470 276 Office expenses 1,750 1,450 1,502 Overtime and meal allowances 2,500 2,500 2,510 Payments to the Post and Telegraph Department 2,125 2,125 2,047 Printing and stationery 1,500 1,250 1,357 Refund of amusements-tax 5 Refunds of overseas-passenger duty paid by officers returning to Fiji from furlough in New Zealand and by officers transferred to Samoa or Cook Islands 5 5 Eefund of stamp duty on declaration of trust 18 Remission of interest on death duties on soldiers' estates 100 100 90 Rent of offices (6) 4,750 3,456 2,160 Stamp-production (printing) 2,000 2,000 1,649 Stamping machinery (c) 550 20 33 Transfer and removal expenses .. » {d) 500 50 270 Travelling expenses and allowances 200 125 (e) 97 Valuation fees 250 300 82 Contingencies 5 5 (/) 1 Ex gratia payment to Mr. B. L. M. Bell, Stamp Duties Department, Auckland 19 19 Grant of equivalent to death duties paid on estate of Ida Miles, deceased 25 25 Grant of equivalent to part of succession duty paid on estate of Samuel Gorman, deceased .. .. 12,450 12,450 Grant of equivalent to duty paid in England, on estate of Anne Marriott Thomson, deceased 88 88 Payment of fee and expenses in connection with investigation of methods of share valuations 62 62 Refunds of conveyance duty 4 4 Refund of duty on deed of revocation of power of attorney 1 1 Refunds of estate and succession duty 805 ; 805