COST OF THE FORCE
NEW ZEALAND'S SHAKE The cost of the South Africn contingents sent by Now Zealand was eat down at £350,000. It is proposed to send more men n n this more serious occasion, and the Minister of Defence, who obtained power from Parliament to raise a war fund of £1,000,000, mentioned what liability the Government proposes to take in respect to the expeditionary force. He did not think the New Zealand Government should take the responsibility of loss of transpcrts if that occurred, Utit proposals woul i be submitted tn Parliament that the Dominion should pay the actual cost of tansport and alsj the payment and cost of rations for its men during the whole time they were engaged in the war. The country was also under heavy expense in connection wi*h the mobilisation of troops to protect our harbours and other ports
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 694, 15 August 1914, Page 5
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146COST OF THE FORCE King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 694, 15 August 1914, Page 5
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