WAR EXPENDITURE IN BRITAIN
INSTANCES OF WASTE AUDITOR'S REFORT By Telegraph—Press Assooiatlon-Copyrisht London, May 12 (delayed). The Auditor-Gene rn-l's report on tlio expenditure by the Ministry for Munitions for 1917-18 shows that heavy expenditure was often incurred without the sanction of the Treasury. Largo losses were incurred through altering or cancelling contracts, for which extravagant compensation had to be paid, hi some eases the cancellation caused r,o real loss, but compensation was paid. A 'quarter of a million was spent in equipping a,factory to produce a certain poisim gas bei'oro it had been decided to manufacture the gas, and eventually it was decided not to employ it.
The sum of jJiMiIi.OOO was spent on camps to accommodate miners. Tho numbers'were never more than 519, anO. ■dropped in six months to 90, and some or the-camps eventually were empty.
In one case a lirm received a contract involving a million without investigation, though the firm in previous contracts had notoriously made huge profits and had charged excessive prices. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn'.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 202, 21 May 1919, Page 7
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170WAR EXPENDITURE IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 202, 21 May 1919, Page 7
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