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Head 21.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING
Head 21.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND
BROADCASTING
Approved Estimate, 1938.
Estimate, 1939.
Sub-heads
A. POST OFFICE.
1 Personal Emoluments
2 Air Mail Payment
3 Air Mail Subsidy..
4 Carriage of Mails :---
Transit Charges
Other Charges.
5 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing
6 Coolie Hire
7 Electric Fans and Lights
366,800
410,548
122,034
136,950
140,000
1,000
122,034 263,051 (1)
100,000 (2) 1,200 (3)
300
300
12,000
12,000
8 Gas.
255
255
9 Incidental Expenses
800
800
10 Mail Bags, Parcel Boxes, Date Stamps and Scales
6,000
6,000
11 Printing
500
500
12 Rent of Branch Offices
1,050
13 Rent of Public Telephones..
14 Stamps...
15 Telegrams
600
557
15,000
1,020
15,000 600
(2)
440
(2)
16 Transport
1,200
1,500
(4)
17 Uniform and Equipment
7,500
14,000
(3)
Total Other Charges
445,746
538,700
Special Expenditure.
18 Pillar and Letter Boxes
1,000
1,000
19 Two Typewriters
Motor Mail Van
Electric Clocks
782
(5)
4,500
New Equipment Registration Branch...
500 2,000
(6)
Total Special Expenditure
Total A-Post Office
8,000
820,546
1,782
951,030
Personal Emoluments.
NUMBERS.
Details of the foregoing.
1938
1939
2
1
Cadet Officers, Class II, (£525 to £1,400 by 3 of £50
1 of £75 1 of £100 and 11 of £50)
42,307
22,202 (7)
1
Assistant Postmaster General and Chief Accountant
(£1,250)
16,800
20,000 (8)
8
Controller of Posts, (£600 to £700 by £25 annually)| Superintendents, (1 at £460 to £560 by £20 annually, 3 at £250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15, 4 at $4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually). Language Allowance to two,
9,939
10,339
(9)(10)
31,127
38,636
(11)(12)
390
390
5
6
Class I Postal Clerks, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200
annually)
21,288
24,217
10
11
Class II Postal Clerks, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150
annually)
31,567
33,528
13
15
Class III Postal Clerks, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100
(12)
annually)
29,438
32,417
14
17
Class IV Postal Clerks
and Shroffs,
($1,500 to $1,800 by $100
aminally)
24,569
28,737
Carried forward
207,452
210,466
(1) Increased subsidy
(2) Considered sufficient.
(3) Additional Staff and dearer material.
(4) More mails.
(5) Replacements.
(6) Non-recurrent.
(7) 1938 Estimates included one officer on leave.
(8) Title changed from Chief Accountant. Revised
salary.
(9) Stipulated increments.
(10) Shown as Supt. of Mails in 1938 Estimates. (11) Shown as Assistant Supts. of Mails in 1938
Estimates.
(12) New posts for extension of hours at G.P.O.