PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
UNAUTHORISED, PAYMENTS. AGGREGATE £5,000,000. \ (Received Noon.) SYDNEY, This Day. The report of the Public Accounts Committee, tabled in the Assembly, discloses that during the year ending June 30, 1925, nearly £5,000,000 was paid away, without Parliamentary authority.
“In several instances," .{he report states, “the departmental explanation was that the excess of expenditure was due to 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 opinion that this payment by the Government is likely to have far-reaching effects, and forms a most undesirable precedent. Such payments should be made only after ' full discussion in the ilousc."—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 29 September 1926, Page 5
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