WAR EXPENSES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2841, 4 August 1916, Page 6

WAR EXPENSES

DETAILED STATEMENT

YERY BIG FIGURES

'A statement of New :Zealand's expenditure under tho heading of tho War Expends Account, from the beginning of fho war to March ;il, 11)16, was presented to tho House yesterday by the Defence Minister (the Hon. J. Allen). The statement follows—shillings and pence being omitted:— Item. Amount, To To Total to Mar. 31, MaJ.3l, Mar. 31, 1915. 1916. 1916. •B £ £ Advertising, printing, office equipment, etc./'. 1 . 4,223 16,316 20,539 (Credit) Cantons 25,492 6,675' 18,816 Camps—Expenses of (including recruiting) 23,982 279,754 303,736 Clerical assistance 4,401 24,299 28,701 Equipment (including purchase of boots, clothing, G.S. wagons, ammunition carts, • etc.) 276,389 717,264 993,653 Forage 46,662 182,230 228,892 Homo defence, (forts, harbour patrols, cxami.no-' tion of steamers, guarding cables, wireless fitations, railway picquets, censors) 120,021 73,648 193,669 Hospital ship— Jlaheno — 84,793 84,793 Hospital ship— Marama - 45,133 45,133 Mechanical transport 6,395 8,537 14.732 Medical (including fees, eQuipmerit for hospitals, field hospitals, and ambuianoes, surgical tinstruments, comforts. etc.) 17,791 87,717 105,504 Pay 584,988 2,525,066 3,110,054 Postage and telegrams (including preparing war news cables for dispatch to N.Z., and cable charges . * thereon) 2,565 21,819 24,40? Prisoners of war... 7,873 15,755 21,629. Purchase of horses —and expenses Inci'dcint'il thereto 107.221 88,856 196,077 Rations 135,877 325,678 461,555 superannuation paid by Government on behalf of Oivil Servants with Expeditionary Force 2,423 11,388 13,811 Supplies, Board of „/ dvic( > - 790 790 Transport of troops (including charter of steamers, meals, ( and fares of men ' travelling to join, freight, cartage, ctc.)' . 616,603 1,037,638 1,854,242 Travelling expenses, . S t<; -. : 2,122 . 2,629 4,752 Admuusrtrativfr.(Samoa—recover- ( , able from Bamoan Administra- (Credit) ~V on > : 1.955 1,210 745 Allowances to wives of Imperial soldiers ill N.Z ■ - 481 481 Commissions of In- f <« uir .y v - 1,010 1,010 Deposit for allotments paid through . Post Offices in United Kingdom ,- 7,400 Discharged Soldiers' Information Department-— 760 760 Grants to regimental funds — 693f 699 Distributionof war 1 news'and casualty telegrams in N-Z- - 160.C00 160,000 Maintenance of enemy subjects ... — 36 36 Keoruitang Board expenses ■. - .150 150 Freight on Great Britain «nd Belgium Ttlief pro_d«c® ~ 656 656 Relief purposes ... — 21 21 Refund of revenue 245 . 444. 689 Comforts for wounded soldiers and relief of dis- , tress in Eelgiuni — 72,500 72,500 Remittances to solfc'ers - 1,534 1,534' llenuttanoos from soldiers 1,787 178? Pay Warrants Ac- ' ,2' v "Vi i " - 19 ' 344 ■ Relict of Belgian distress 20,000 _ . 2 0,000 2,207,257 5,808,058 8,015,315