COST OF THE EXHIBITION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 128, 26 November 1907, Page 2

COST OF THE EXHIBITION.

EXPLANATIONS BY OFFICIALS. GOVERNMENT ADVANCE £77,500. f ßt TEr.EGBArn —Si ec.i'al to The Post.. CHIUSTCIiURCH. This Day. The Exhibition officials here f>tate that some uiisundei'Standing has 'been caused by the publication 'of the receipts and 'expenditure in conneciion with the Internationa' Exhibition. The tables telegraphed from Wellngton, and. published in Chiistchurch oewspapei's yesterday morning, show that tho total expenditure- amounted to £239,970, and it is stated that the loss made good by the Government was £87,61 Y. In tho items under tho heading "expenditure," however, there is a sum of £27.117 representing refunds made tv the Government. 'Those refunds v;qic m:u.le in consequence of (ho manner in which the •accounts were kept. At first all tip accounts had to bt, dealt with in Wellington, and they were- paid by the Government. Later on tho Exhibition ikalt with all its own aubunU, tmd it refunded to !ho (inverninent- the advances that hud b'Tii made, toiallinK £27.117. Thai sum tbavforo should be deducted from Iho sum o£ £87,617. That leaves £60,600, and this i^ the atitual sum tho Oovtinment had to ;uiw.nce io Hit* Exhibition to mak.* up its deficiencies up io October -31 hist. Sinco then, however, it has boon nt'ccssaiy to ask the Government for £17,000 nioip. '1 his sum was placed oil the supplementary estimates, and w.is passed on Saturday evening. It brings the toial 'advance to £77,800, which tho officials state- is the sum New Zealand has hnd to pay for its International Exh - bitjon.

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