BIG EXPENDITURE
UNAUTHORISED PAYMENTS.
PAYMENT TO LOYALISTS.
PRECEDENT CONDEMNED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.20 a.m. to-day. SIDNEY, Sept. 29. The report of the Public Accounts Committee, tabled in the Assembly, disclosed that during the year ending June 30, 1925, nearly £5,000,000 was paid away without Parliamentary authortiy. In several instances, the report states, the departmental explanation was that the excess expenditure was' due to a reduction of their Estimates. The system of paying all accounts by June 30 was also responsible for some unauthorised items. Referring to the payment of £IO,OOO as compensation to loyalist workers on the waterfront, the report says: “The committee is of the opinion that this payment by the Government is likely to have far-reaphing effects, and forms a most undesirable precedent. Such payments should be made only after a full discussion in the House.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 September 1926, Page 7
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139BIG EXPENDITURE Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 September 1926, Page 7
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