WASTED MILLIONS.
WAR EXPENDITURE AT HOME EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS Australian and N.Z. Gable Association LONDON. May 19. The report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure shows Omt after half a million pounds aver.ing had been expended on preparatory work in establishing an instru.,'!io.nu school for aerial gunnery at- Loch Loon, Ayrshire, the project was abandoned because the climatic conditions of the locality were unfavorable, also because it was necessary to drain a large bog to make an aeroThe Committee reports that the bread subsidy costs forty million pounds annually. It also expresses dissatisfaction at the overstaffiing •,f the War Office, the stall of which has been increased from 218 at the cutset of the war to 1516 last montm. ■ i
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4874, 21 May 1918, Page 5
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