APPENDIX No. IA-contd. ABSTRACT of ENGINEERING EXPENDITURE, year ended 31 March 1925-contd. TOTAL Cost of Repair of Stores in Post Office Factories..£ 16,976(0) 218,096(0) 2,660 (0) (k) The work undertaken during the year was rather less than anticipated. The saving on bonus accounted for 21,5001. (1) Unexpectedly large quantities of telegraph, telephone and protective apparatus were condemned during the year. (m) Increased expenditure was incurred owing to (1) heavy storms (65,0001.), and (2) additional work necessitated by the rapid expansion of the telephone service (78,000l.). The excess would have been greater but for the saving on bonus (23,0007.). (n) The reduction of the estimate by 16,000l. in 1924-25 proved to be excessive. (0) Less repair work was undertaken than anticipated, and the saving on bonus accounted for 2,000. APPENDIX No. II. STATEMENT SHOWING RECEIPTS AND ISSUES OF ENGINEERING STORES, year ended 31 March 1925. * Includes Stores value 1,250,0001. charged to Suspense Head of the Telephone Capital Account. POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS (TELEPHONIC SYSTEM). See also Report of Comptroller and Auditor General. AN ACCOUNT of the RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS by the POSTMASTER-GENERAL under the Telegraph Acts, 1892-1907, the Printed by H.M.S.O. Press, Harrow. " 39,877 17 10 phone Company's Plant, etc. 12,121,083 12,121,083 9,724,208 6 953,055,800 14 4 62,780,009 1 1 " Expenditure on Works, etc. " Expenditure on Stores not yet allocated (Suspense Head) 1,250,000 1,250,000 1,411,834 1,411,834 215,800 14 4 £9,940,009 1 166,426,883 14 476,151,092 £9,940,609 1 166,426,883 14 476,151,092 1 * In addition to this sum, receipts amounting to 518., being the proceeds of the sale of old materials on sites purchased out of Telephone Moneys, were received and brought to account by the Office of Works. In the following cases claims against contractors for liquidated damages for delay in completing contracts were abandoned, with Treasury The material used for plastering a Repeater Station at Derby proved to be defective through no fault of the contractor, and unproductive Sums amounting to 1047. 18s. 7d. were paid to three contractors for extra expense incurred through unforeseen difficulties or undue prolonga- Land and buildings to the value of 2,7501. for use as a District Manager's office were transferred to the Postmaster-General from the 30 November 1925. H. N. Bunbury, Accounting Officer. I have examined the above Account. I have obtained all the information and explanations that I have required, and I certify, as the result of 1924-25. STATEMENT OF EXCESSES. A STATEMENT of SUMS required to be VOTED in order to make good EXCESSES on certain GRANTS for CIVIL SERVICES for the Year ended 31st March, 1925. Three Hundred and Eighty-seven Thousand One Hundred and Four Pounds Nine Shillings and Seven Pence. (Presented by His Majesty's Command.) Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed. LONDON: PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 28, Abingdon Street, London, S.W.1; York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; or through any Bookseller. 1926 Price 1d. Net. 30. |