WAR EXPENSES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 10

WAR EXPENSES

A DETAILED STATEMENT

TOTAL OF £76,000,000

A detailed statement of expenditure from tho beginning of tho war to March 31, 1920, was presented to Parliament shortly beforo the session ended. The grand total is .£16,"06,825. Following are tho principal items:—. Advertising, printing, office £ equipment, etc 235,291 Expenses of camps, including concentration 1,059,713 Canteens on transports 620,307 Commissions of Inquiry 7,719 Discharged Soldiers Information Department, to date of operation of Repatriation Act—expenses and grants 20,800 Distribution of war nows and casualty lists in N.Z 423,188 Donations refunded and transferred 3,271 Equipment 5,182,318 Ivorago 521,207 Freight on Great Britain and Belgian Relief Fund produce 056 Grants to regimental funds 3,099 Grants to soldiors' hostels 13,153 Grants -to New Zealand War Contingent Association for assistance to fit men on leavo in England ! 6,500 Half cost of reinsurance of death benefits of members of friendly societies serving with tho Expeditionary Forco 7,422 Home defence <101,691 Hospital ship Maheno 570,137 Hospital ship Marama 058.502 Maintonnnce of indigent enemy •subjects in N.Z 102 Mechanical transport 118,513 Medals and decorations 204 Military Service Act: Expenses of administration, including recruiting, military service, and medical boards 298,870 Medical (including expenses and equipment of hospitals, field hospitals, and ambulances; surgical instruments, fees, dental treatment, comforts, cost of funerals, ctc.) 1,907,030 National Efficiency Board—administrative expenses 16,437 Military Supplies Purchase Office 21,877 N.Z. Expeditionary Force educational and vocational training 87,207 Pay and allowances 30,526,996 Por capita payments to War Office for maintenance of New Zealand troops in the fiold— D ammunition, extra transport, ote 11,985,000 X'ostago, telegrams, telephones (preparing war news cables for dispatch'to Now Zealand from the United Kingdom, and cable charges thereon) 250,251 Prisoners of war 123,879 Purchaso of horses 180,203 Rations 2,435,162 Superannuation paid bv Government on behalf' of Civil Servants serving with the Expeditionary Forcc 129,(44 Soldiers' Financial Assistance Board 276,787 [Transport of troops (including charter of steamers, meals, and fares of men travelling to join, freight, <cnrtage, oto.) i.sWb.biJ Travelling expenses and allowflTiccs 16,3/0 War bonus to clerical s=+nfE 41,343 Wnn»anui Detention Barracks 09,050,499 Expenditure for relief purposes 268,438 War gratuities 1 4,917,bd8 Charges and expenses of raising ■ loans fi9G ' M5 Expenditure upon Repatriation Aftf 1918 801,(25 Imprests outstanding 471,609 It Wellington, .£1043 was spent on the guarding of thp wharves. The escape and capture of prisoners of war cost tlio country ,£3596. The expenditure ou.tho preparation of war records and history was .£6142.