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(7) The following tables analyse the staff employed at the date of this report :

Location of Staff employed as at 31st March, 1948

Group Analysis of Staff employed as at 31st March, 1948

Section 12.—Finance and Expenditure (a) Vote " Labour and Employment" (£798,097 Net) (1) Expenditure by the Department of Labour and Employment is subject to annual appropriation by Parliament in terms of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, and provision is made for this expenditure to be met from the Consolidated Fund under vote " Labour and Employment." This vote is divided into five subdivisions, set out below. The figures shown against the total vote above and the amount against each subdivision is the net expenditure in each case after the sums received by the Department under the Treasury revenue item " Departmental receipts " have been deducted. (2) Subdivision I: Administration (£359,817 Net).- —As this is the first year's expenditure recorded under this vote for the administration expenses of the combined National Employment Service and Department of Labour, the net expenditure of £359,817 can only be compared with the totals of vote " National Employment Service '*

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— Hales. Females. Total. Head Office 97 41 138 District offices 401 141 542 Camps and hostels, including domestic staff 72 65 137 (but excluding caterers' staffs and staffs of hostels operated by Y.W.C.A.) Home Aids 60 60 Secondments to London .. 9 1 10 Courts and tribunals 4 6 10 Totals 583 314 897

"Nature of Work. Males. Females. Total. Inspectors of Factories and Contact Officers 99 6 105* Inspectors of Weights and Measures 20 20* Inspectors of Scaffolding 8 8* Fair rents 16 16* Apprenticeship 16 16* Surveys, statistics, returns 28 35* Research and investigation 13 13 Accounts and stores 55 6 61* Shorthand-typists 1 97 98 Records 35 25 60* Immigration-— Total London staff 18 22 40+ Total New Zealand staff 17 1 18 Home Aids 60 60 Hostels — Supervisory 13 IS 31 Domestic, cooking, and cleaning 59 47 108 Administrative, supervisory, and general 194 46 240 clerical, including placement and employ1 ment staff 1 Totals 592 1 335 I 927| * Includes only officers engaged substantially full time on these duties. t Includes immigration staff recruited in Great Britain (30).