WAR WASTE.
MORE BRITISH SCANDALS. ,£4,000,000 LGSTjON FOOD. By Telegraph.—Press Aiia.-Copytlgbt. (Received August IS, 11.20 p.m.London, August 14. A report on public accounts, containing' glaring examples of prodigious waste, gives instances in connection with the erection of hutments which verge on being scandals. Much money was spent in the Ministry of Information without any attempt at securing Treasury approval. The commissioners found there was much unnecessary loss through remiss administration. A sum of £700,000 was advanced to the Y.M.0.A., of which £IOO,OOO was repaid, and it was eventually decided that the balance should be treated as a War Office grant in respect of such services as education. The Food Production Department made a loss of £4,000,000 on various schemes which were wer optimistically Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1920, Page 5
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125WAR WASTE. Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1920, Page 5
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