E.4.-PACKET SERVICES-IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN.

O Certain additional payments in connection with steamer services to the Hebrides are met from the Vote for Scottish Office, Class I., Vote 23.

† These contracts are for Parcel Mails only.

(1) ANNUITIES payable to the Commissioners for the Reduc-
tion of the National Debt for Advances made in the
calendar years 1913 to 1923

(2) Completion and Equipment of the Railway. Estimated
expenditure in 1927

TOTAL, POST OFFICE (LONDON) RAILWAY

These contracts are for Parcel Mails only.

75,152 75,152

132,848 175,000

£208,000 250, 152

F.-RAILWAY COMPANIES, CABLE COMPANIES, &c., FOR
SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH TELEGRAMS.

(a) Motor Vehicles used in connection with Engineering work, and local purchases of supplies for such vehicles are provided for under Subhead K.

LAW CHARGES, INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, &c.

H. 1-LAW CHARGES

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H. 2.-LOSSES BY DEFAULT, ACCIDENT, &c. :
Including Compensation for Loss or Damage of Parcels
and Registered Letters

H. 8.-INCIDENTAL EXPENSES (a)

(a) Excluding expenditure incurred by the Engineering and Savings Banks Departments (Subheads L. and O.). (b) Details of the Services for which this Subhead provides will be found in Appendices D. and E, pages 90-93. (c) One post blocked by a Clerk, 1st Class (Old Establishment) on scale 3101.-151.-4001. One Officer also draws a personal salary of 4501. as Officer in charge of the Drawing Office (subject to reconsideration on a vacancy).

(d) A mumber of Officers retain a personal maximum in excess of that proper to their clas

I. 1.—SALARIES, WAGES, &c., ENGINEERING ESTABLISHMENT—continued.