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REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, AND POST OFFICE PACKET AND TELEGRAPH SERVICES.

VOTE 3.-POST OFFICE-continued.

Explanation of the Causes of Variation between Expenditure and Grant.

8. Due to a further falling off of correspondence conveyed by the Southampton-Colon route.

9. Due to the retirement during the year of two regular officers, replaced by temporary officers with lower allowances.

10. A fluctuating item.

Cannot be accurately estimated Certain additional expenditure was authorised by the Treasury.

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POSTAL SERVICES:

REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND POST OFFICE PACKET AND TELEGRAPH SERVICES,

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Amount Received.

Amount Estimated.

Explanation of the Causes of Variation between Estimates and Receipts.

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NATURE OF RECEIPT.

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The "gain by conversion" of Foreign Money Orders (1,6837. s. 1d.), which is accounted for under this Sub-Head, was larger than was anticipated.

1,704 5 7 Cannot be accurately estimated.

Postage of Savings Bank Department

70,000

73,334 6 7

See explanation under Sub-Head E. 10 of this Vote.

Contribution by the White Star Line towards the cost of accelerating the Mail Service from Dublin to Queenstown on Thursdays

1,000

1,000

Contribution by the Cunard Line towards cost of earlier transmission of Outward American Mails on Saturdays

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Additional premises were sub-let on sites acquired after the Estimate was framed.

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Cannot be accurately estimated. There were large amounts received for old Post Office premises.

Rent of Post Office Premises sub-let

11,560

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Deduct-Share of receipts common to Postal and Telegraph Services transferred to Sub-Head I of the Estimate for the Post Office Telegraph (24 per cent. of Common Services)

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In addition, the sums of 2,4317. 18. 10d., the final balance of the Parcel Post Irregularities Fine Fund, and 15,043 3s. 84d., the final balance of the Registered Letter Irregularities Fine Fund, were paid into the Exchequer in the year as Extra Receipts.

REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, AND POST OFFICE PACKET AND TELEGRAPH SERVICES.

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REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, AND POST OFFICE PACKET AND TELEGRAPH SERVICES.

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Departmental Committee on
Financial Return relative to
Telephone Service

Vote III, Post Office (He
also received 18. out of
Vote V. Telegraphs).
Vote III., Post Office. (He
also received 107. 16s. out
Vote V. Telegraphs).
Vote III. Post Office. (He
also received 77. 48. out of
Vote V., Telegraphs).

The Surplus of 51,455l. 11s. 8d., shown on the Account of Vote III. "Post Office," for the 31st March, 1905, has been surrendered.

L. Maclean,

Principal Bookkeeper.

General Post Office,

Charles A. King,

year

Comptroller and Accountant General,
Accounting Officer.

ended

30 November 1906.

I certify that this Account has been examined by officers under my directions, in accordance with the 29th Section of the Act 29 & 30 Vict. Cap. 39, including a test audit as directed by Treasury Minute of the 27th March, 1899, and that the Account is correct.

Examined,

W. M. Martin,

John A. Kempe, Comptroller and Auditor General.

REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, AND POST OFFICE PACKET AND TELEGRAPH SERVICES.

VOTE 3.

POST OFFICE.

REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL.

1. EXPENDITURE in excess of the Estimate has taken place under the following Excess. Sub-Heads, viz:—

A. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16.-Chief Offices.

B. 1, 2.-Circulation Office (London).

C. 1, 3, 5, 6.-Provincial Establishments.

E. 1, 2, 5, 10, 14, 16, 18.-Post Office Savings Banks.
G. 3, 6.-Conveyance of Mails.
H.-Purchase of Sites, &c.

2. With regard to the Explanations under Sub-Heads A, 1, 2, 3 and 4, B. 1 and E. 1. I may state that salaries for the month of March, 1906, payable under Warrants dated 1st April, and provided for in the Estimates for the year 1906-7, were actually paid on Saturday 31st March. As the result of a communication from my Department pointing out that in the circumstances these salaries appeared to be properly chargeable to the year 1905-6, a total sum of 70,906l. 28. 3d., charged in the first instance against the Post Office Vote for the year 1906-7, has been transferred to the year 1905-6 now under review. The Treasury, to whom the matter was referred, have further assented to a proposal by the Postmaster-General that in future, in conformity with the practice in other Government Departments, Head Quarter Salaries in the Post Office should be paid on the last day of the period to which the payments relate.

Transfer of Salaries from to year 1905-6.

year 1906-7

and Mitchels

3. Sub-Head E. 18, Losses by Default, etc. (Post Office Savings Banks). The expendi- Defalcations ture of 1,8521. 13s. 3d, recorded under this Sub-Head includes amounts of 3091. 10s. Id. and at Newport 3921. 188. 10d., being the net loss to Savings Bank Funds from defalcations, in connection (Tipperary) with the accounts of certain illiterate depositors, by the late Sub-Postmistresses of town. Newport (County Tipperary) and Mitchelstown respectively, who were both sentenced to twelve months imprisonment with hard labour. It also includes an amount of 1851. 198., Fraudulent fraudulently withdrawn from a Savings Bank account at Bristol, the offender in this withdrawal of Deposits instance being sentenced to three years penal servitude. In each case the loss has been at Bristol. charged to the Vote with Treasury sanction.

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4. Sub-Head H, Purchase of Sites, etc. The Excess of 23,014/. 18s. 1d. under this Exchange Sub-Head is in part attributable to the fact that it was found impossible to carry out, in of properties the manner intended, an Agreement entered into with the Great Western Railway pa Company for an exchange of properties at Paddington. By the terms of this Agreement Department the Postmaster-General was to pay to the Company a net sum of 12,2977. "as estimated and the Great by the Board of Works for equality of exchange," which net sum was included in the Railway Estimates for the year 1905-6. In March, 1906, a payment of 24,224. 148. 11d. was Company. made to the Company, and in reply to a Query I was informed that the Department had already taken possession of the Company's property dealt with in the Agreement, but would be unable to surrender the property belonging to it until the extension of the Sorting Office, now being carried out, had been completed, or had made considerable progress. In these circumstances the gross amount due to the Company, with interest in respect of deferred purchase, was paid, and a sum of 11,6627. will be receivable from the Company upon the transfer of the property of the Department, which, under the Agreement, should be effected by 31st December, 1907.

5. In addition to the sum of 217,824. 178. 10d. realised as Appropriations in Aid of Extra the Vote, sums of 2,431 18. 10. and 15,0431. 38. 8d., representing the final balances Receipts. of the Parcel Post Irregularities Fine Fund and the Registered Letters Irregularities Fine Fund respectively, have been paid direct into the Exchequer.

6. The Amount to be Surrendered is, as shown by the Account, 103,953l. 2s. 6d. Surplus.

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A test examination of Postal Store Accounts has been carried out, with generally Examination satisfactory results, in London, Edinburgh and Dublin.

REVENUE.

of Store Accounts.

8. The Account of Postal Revenue has been subjected to a test examination at the Examination Chief Offices in London, Edinburgh and Dublin. The results have proved generally of Revenue satisfactory, and the Treasury and the Post Office have been so informed.

John A. Kempe,

Account.

Comptroller and Auditor General,

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