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APPENDIX III.—COMPARISON OF NUMBERS TRAINED AND COST OF TRAINING.

APPENDIX IV. WAR EXPENSES ACCOUNT. Detailed Statement of Expenditure from the Beginning of the War to the 31st March, 1923.

Note. —The three periods chosen give a comparison o: the post-war compulsory training system. f the Volunte* er system, th< i pre-war and 1908 9. 1913-14. 1922-23. (1.) Training Staff, N.Z. Permanent Forces (2.) Strength of Forces (3.) Cost of training (expenditure less cost of stores, &c, and of non-effective services) Ratio (1) to (2) Ratio (2) to (3) (cost per man trained) .. 336 16,365* £149,712 647 51,561 £335,695 314 40,246 £188,845 48-8 £9 3 0 79-7 £6 10 2 128-1 £4 13 10 * Of these 13,420 qualified for capitation, but only 7,55 >3 attended tho a ,nnual inspectior i. V

Particulars. Expenditure. Expenditure under Section 8 of the Public Revenues Amendment Act, 1914 (War Purposes), and Section 4, Finance Act, 1918, No. 2 (War Purposes). idvertising, printing, office equipment, &c.— Office expenses — Samoa Egypt .. United Kingdom New Zealand £ s. d. 35 11 3 980 17 3 23,075 6 11 91,385 15 9 £ s. d. £ s. d. Advertising— Samoa Egypt .. Unitod Kingdom New Zealand 115,477 11 2 132 13 8 17 14 8 1,152 18 7 11,464 12 8 12,767 19 7 Printing and stationery — Samoa Egypt .. United Kingdom New Zealand 72 11 7 2,881 16 9 17,934 15 9 91,294 0 2 112,183 4 3 Office equipment— Samoa Egypt .. Unitod Kingdom New Zealand Cost of services rendered by Postal Department in connection with payment of allotments and pay-warrants in New Zealand Half cost of expenses in connection with the raising and distribution of relief funds Preparation of war records and history Amount required to recoup Imprest Accounts for vouchers lost in transit 71 10 6 104 8 11 1,465 17 0 9,240 0 0 10,881 16 11 31,712 1 8 7,287 3 7 281,783 12 5 22 10 0 1.1,187 10 0 50 9 0 301,547 16 2 19,764 3 9 Less credits unount fraudulently obtained from High Commissioner's Office by unknown person representing himself to be a member of N.Z. Expeditionary Force !amps, expenses of (including concentration) — Main Body and Reinforcements — Expenses of Now Zealand Forces abroad — Unitod Kingdom, Egypt, &e. Samoa 298,011 1 2 11,128 4 8 309,139 5 10 Camps in New Zealand — Narrow Neck Trentham Featherston Tunnelling Corps 24,315 15 2 393,158 3 9 351,024 4 0 583 19 2 769,082 2 1 239,778 9 4 Other general expenses, including Main Body camps, Awapuni, Rangiotu, Waikanae, and other temporary camps 1,212,711 13 2 Less credits 1,317,999 17 3 105,288 4 1