B—7 [PT. I]

YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1950

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS—continued

(а) Includes £l78 outstanding for year 1948-49. (b) Increase due to higher cost of printing.

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VOTE —LEGISLATIVE —continued 1949-50. 1948-49. Subdivision No. VII —General Expenses— continued Voted. Expended. Charges for and incidental to —continued Compassionate grants to dependants of deceased officers Expenses incidental to rearrangement of accommodation, public functions, obsequies, purchase of memorials, &c. Expenses of Select Committees of the House sitting during the recess Furniture and office requisites — £ Purchases .. .. .. 2,000 Maintenance and repairs .. 750 £ 50 400 200 2,750 (a) 205 100 750 8,600 10 £ 50 800 1,000 6,700 164 50 700 7,900 10 £ 959 923 5,222 147 98 757 8,650 Hire of motor-cars for Speakers of both Houses and their wives for official use in Wellington Meals to Messengers, &c., on late-sitting nights .. .. Miscellaneous consumable stores Office expenses Passages and expenses of witnesses attending Committees Passages of — Members of both Houses — £ Air .. .. .. 4,500 Steamer .. .. .. 1,300 Service car .. .. 50 Members' wives— £ 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 of the Legislature, families, relations, &c., cost of Railway sleeping-berths— £ Members .. .. .. 1,250 Members' wives .. .. 320 5,850 320 50 1,000 (b) 14,000 21,800 1,570 4,270 50 950 10,000 22,200 1,750 6,217 1,003 17,047 21,794 1,513