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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1944.

POLICE DEPARTMENT—continued.

(a) Free quarters provided as follows: 12 valued at £100, sat £91, 28 at £78, 53 at £50, and 404 at £39. (h) Includes £15,774 for allowances varying from £20 to £85 per annum to 271 officers for use of their own motor-vehicles on police duty. (e) Includes £3,178 for mileage for officers' own vehicles used on duty. (d) Conveyance of police at funerals, £24 ; refund of cost of civilian clothing, &c., damaged on police duty, £44 ; valuation fees, £4 ; Total, £72.

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Number 0< Pers ° na ' VOTE—POLICE —continued. 1943 44. 1912-43. 1943 441942 43 , . Voted. I Expended. . subdivision No. I. —Folice —continued. I r Other charges for and incidental to —continued. £ £ £ Horse allowances, purchase, forage, bedding, shoeing, clipping, and grazing of horses, including compensation for loss of private horses .. .. .. .. 200 200 189 House allowances to officers and men unprovided with quarters .. .. .. .. .. .. (a)46,000 43,800 45,837 Launches— Purchase of .. .. .. .. .. 100 500 39 Maintenance and hire .. .. .. .. 1,000 1,000 880 Medical, dental, and veterinary services, medicines and medical stores, ambulance instruction and hire, and hospital charges for police disabled through duty .. 250 250 * 174 Motor-vehicles— Purchase of ..' .. .. .. .. 1,000 1,000 Maintenance of .. .. ... .. .. (6)18,600 16,700 17,711 Office fittings and requisites (including typewriter allowance), radio, and scientific equipment .. .. 1,000 1,000 1,181 Police examinations, expenses of .. .. .. 175 160 175 Police prosecutions and inquests, legal and medical advice, interpreting, payments for special services, and expenses of departmental inquiries (part recoverable) .. .. 4,000 3,800 4,831 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes .. .. .. 7,500 7,500 5,719 Printing and stationery .. .. .. .. 5,000 5,000 5,157 Rations .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,000 1,000 867 Rent of stations, quarters, and paddocks, and rates on leasehold and acquired properties .. .. .. 4,500 4,500 4,591 Repairing, painting, and improving police premises .. 300 300 372 Rewards and expenses for the suppression of sly-grog selling and the introduction of liquor into prohibited districts, also for the detection of offences against the Dangerous Drugs Act and breaches of Revenue Acts .. .. 500 300 518 Rewards to members of the Force for meritorious conduct 50 • 50 Saddlery, horse-covers, &c. .... .. .. 50 50 1 Scavenging, chimney - sweeping, cleaning stations and windows, sanitary services, and washing .. .. 450 450 518 Stores, supplies, accoutrements, and expenses incidental thereto .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,000 1,000 1,306 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) .. .. .. .. 10,000 10,000 9,553 Transfer and removal expenses .. .. .. 5,000 5,000 4,694 Travelling-expenses of police and transport of prisoners .. 19,000 18,500 (c) 18,225 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision .. .. 50 50 (d) 72 Estimated credits-in-aid u der Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote)— £ Clothing deductions, &c. .. .. 300 Payments for special services of police .. 4-,620 Recoveries of — Costs of prosecutions .. .. 1,500 Postage and telegrams .. .. 300 Travelling-expenses, &c. .. .. 400 Sick deductions .. .. .. 250 Subsidies from local bodies .. .. 160 Miscellaneous recoveries .. .. 190 7,720 147,725 142,210 143,828 Total—Subdivision No. I .. .. 802,763 751,611 728,861