YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1940.

DEPARTMENT OE INTERNAL AEFAIRS —continued.

REMARKS. (а) Number of officers, 23. Travelling-allowances, £418 Is. 7d. ; travelling-expenses, £262 Is. lOd. (б) Total grant, £140 ; £35 paid last year. (c) The local body concerned was not able to arrange for the necessary work to be carried out last year. (d) Wreaths, Armistice Day, London, £3 3s. ; Anzac Day, New Zealand, £11 6s. ; England, £9 75.; funeral, late Lord Stanley, £2 4s. 6d. ; Trafalgar Day, London, £2 2s. ; car-hire for High Commissioner's representative at Walton-on-Thames, £2 ; Coronation and Imperial Delegation, £2 Is. lid. ; freight on poppies for Poppy Day, £14 7s. 9d.; medical expenses of officer, £2 ss. ; photograph of Minister of Internal Affairs for Melbourne Argus, 6s. ; translation, fee, 55.; visit of Minister of Labour to Geneva, £8 Is. 7d. : total, £57 9s. 9d. (e) Underestimate due to difficulties in gauging requirements. (f) The alterations were more extensive than originally estimated. 5

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