ROYAL VISIT EXPENDITURE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 August 1901, Page 3

ROYAL VISIT EXPENDITURE.

(ODB PABLIAJIENTABY BHPORTBB.) WBLiiiNOTOB', This Day. It appears from the estimate that the expenses connected with the visit of their - Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess or>f Cornwall and York totalled £50,083, and the expenses of the visit of the Imperial and Indian troops were £2,015 or together £52,098. In connection with the Eoyal Visit, the sum of £B3 was expended in the last financial year and the following items were incurred during the year 1901-2. Grant to the Governor in reimbursement of expenses £2,250. Grant to Mayor of Christchurch in re imbursetnent of expenses, £247. Grant to Ministers and their Secretaries in reimbursement of expenses incurred by them, including £l5O for ordinary travelling allowances. £350.

Expenses connected with the renovation, furnishing, alteration, rents, etc., of the following residences placed at the disposal of the Government for use of guests:—The Northern Club and Mr Alfred Nathans (Auckland); Mayor’s residence and Mr Beswick (Christchurch) ; and Messrs Denniston, Stephenson, Laing, Sinclair and Parks (Dunedin), £I,OOO. Eeviews and massing of troops, veterans and cadets at various centres with freights, passages and incidental expenses connected there with £20,000. Miscellaneous entertainments, including the Commissioners’ salaries and expenses ; also expenses of united guests from Australia and elsewhere and press representatives £12,153. The Railway Department for carriage of troops, cadets, veterans, Maoris, etc., £IO,OOO. Street decorations, arches, platforms and safeguards, £6,500 Police protection, freights, passages, etc., £2,500. Total, £55,083. From which is deducted £5,000 for recoveries from sale of material fittings, etc. Of the £2,015 cost of the visit of the

Imperial and Indian troops, £1,500 is set down as expenses of the visit, £SOO to the Eailway Department for special trains and railway passes and £ls expended last year.