THE HOSPITAL SHIPS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 112, 8 November 1917, Page 5

THE HOSPITAL SHIPS

LATEST BALANCE-SHEETS Now that the reconditioning of the two New Zealand hospital ships has once again been completed, and all the accounts in connection therewith having been settled, the' Department of Internal Affairs has handed to His Excellency the Governor-General a statement, which he desires shall be published. The receipts total £61,206 Is Bd, and after meeting the expeuses there is a balance of £6642 Os Id in hand. Following are the items of expenditure : —

As explained in previous balance-sheets, items (d) and (c) have been repaid by the patriotic societies of the four centres, and this sum is. included in the total receipts. His Excellency desires, on behalf of the subscribers, to express his thanks to the Treasury for auditing 'the accounts, to the Department of Internal Affairs for keeping the accounts, and to the Defence Department, the Munitions Board, and the Board of Agriculture for kindly undertaking to arrange the contracts.

(a) No. 1 Hospital Ship— £ s. < First charter 14,719 17 Second charter 2.062 15 Third charter 2^607 9 Fourth charter 1.143 14 (b) No. 2 Hospital Ship— Firet charter 15,562 9 Second charter 5,450 1 Third charter 1,105 3 (c) Labour for working stores in Christchurch ... 3 15 (d) Newspapers supplied to hospital ships and hospitals, Malta 258 15 Comforts for wounded in Egypt 1,000 0 Tobacco and papers for sick and wounded in Egypt 150 0 (c) Equipment of Walton Hospital 10,000 0 Equipment for No. 1 and No. 2 Stationary Hospitals 500 0 . Balance in hand fa,642 0