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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1914-1915.

STATEMENT of the UNAUTHORIZED EXPENDITURE for the FINANCIAL YEAR ended 31st March, 1915.

Consolidated Fund. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. FOR SERVICES NOT PROVIDED POR. Legislative Department: — Compassionate allowance to Matthew Cashen, employed ' as messenger, Parliamentary Buildings, on his services being dispensed with 30 0 0 Department of Finance : — Amount expended in connection with the purchase of wheat by the High £ s. d. Commissioner .. .. .. 208,911 5 5 Amount reoeived on sale of wheat .. 115,139 14 10 93.771 10 7 Thirteen days' interest at 4 per cont. on £8,900, Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900, debentures held by tho Public Trustee, the principal having been paid on 14th .Tanuary instead of 1st January j the date of maturity 12 13 7 Post awl Telegraph Department : — Bonus granted A. G. Clarke for special duty at Thames in connection with the introduction of new system dealing with the Savings-bank work Compensation (£500) anil funeral allowances (£20) payable to the personal representative of the late P. McLaughlin, Postmaster and lineman. Kekorangu, killed whilst on duty Cost of training-camp at Waikanae for tho officers and non-commissioned officers of the Post and Telegraph Corps 93,784 4 2 25 0 0 520 0 0 1.10 (i o Public, Works Department: — Refund to tho Superannuation Fund of amount deducted fro in salary of .S. H. Agar and misappropriated by P. \V. Wilson, lad- clerk, Public Works Office, Stratford 655 I) 0 I I L> 11 Native Department: —■ Amount payable to George Clark, olerk, Native Department, being an amount lost between Bank of New Zealand and Government Buildings on 23rd December, 1914", while on official duty i 25 0 0 Justiee Department, .-— Compassionate allowance In the widow of I he late Constable W. H. Ryan Compensation to ex Constable S. K. Warner on account of injuries received in execution of his duty (£200), and passage-money (£86) . . .. Compensation to William MoHugh on account of wrongful conviction and imprisonment at Onehunga in April, 1913 Grant to Professor •). W. Salmond, Solicitor-General, for special services in preparing Cook Islands Bill, 1914 Refund of fine and costs imposed upon Hamiora Parekuka. for breach of I he Education Act, 1908 Speoial allowance to Or. A. R. Maolurkin Inwards cost of return passage to England .. .. Travelling-expenses of Mr. C. E. Matthews, Inspector of Prisons, while visiting Australia to study Australian prison systems 173 7 li 286 0 0 i 60 II 11 21(1 0 0 3 5 ti 1.00 o o 93 13 8 Department of Internal Affairs :— Compassionate allowance to children of late Samuel Doleman, contract worker, who was accidentally killed on the construction - works of the East Coast Main Trunk- Railway Compassionate allowance to Mr. .1. T. Large, formerly Resident Agenf of the Government in several of the Cook Islands Compassionate allowance to Mr. W. Lingard, N.Z.C., in respeot to an infirmity contracted whilst on active service in 1809 (additional) Compassionate allowance to Mrs. Imelda Coogan, in respeot of servioes rendered by her husband while employed in the Land and Income Tax Department Compensation payable under the Workers' Compensation Art, 1908, to Mr. B. 0. Bartlett, carpenter, Porirua Mental Hospital, on aooount of the loss of lingers through an accident Contribution towards Ihe lliintlv Mining Disaster Relief Fund Cost of gold and greenstone trowel for presentation to His Majesty the King, in oonneotion with laying the foundation-stone of Dominion's new offioes in London Cost of repairing motor-car used by the Prime Minister, which was maliciously damaged at public meeting in Ponsonby, Auckland .. 926 6 H 100 0 0 200 o 0 511 l) 0 150 0 0 122 12 0 200 (* I) 48 (I 0 20 0 0 Carried forward 95,421 13 9 j 890 12 0