WAR EXPENSES.
ALMOST SIXTY-THREE MILLIONS. :
The War Expenses Account for the period ended 31st March, 1919, shows (hat the total expenditure for war jhirposes was £59,805,537, muff the- grand total £(12,(13(1,720. This hitter sum included £058,740, charges and expenses of raising loan.-, and £208,438 for relief purposes. The principal items of Avar expenditure were: Camps (including concentration), £815,119; distribution a war news and casually lists, £423,- / 188: cfinipment, £ ,351,940; forage, • £1,405,900; home del'eiifc, £389,441; . hospital ship Maheao, £485,906; Mamma, £597,900; medical, £l,224,009 (including hospitals £925,-
75-1); Military Service Act (including recruiting'', military sendee, and medical boards), £28(1,751; National Efficiency Board, £ls,S(il; Munitions and Supplies Department, £lB,--18-1; pay and allowances, £25,393,231; per capita, payments to Whr Office for mainlenance New Zealand troops in field, ammunition, extra transport, etc., .1*15,735,000; prisoners of war, £103,08(1; purchase of horses, £195,081: rations, £2,110,Sll; soldiers’ financial assistance, £219,035; transport' of troops, £(»,- 001,-1.18 (including charier hire, conditioning, and reconditioning of transport under charter to New Zealand Government, £1,910,007).
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2031, 20 September 1919, Page 2
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161WAR EXPENSES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2031, 20 September 1919, Page 2
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