SOME WAR EXPENSES

Nelson Evening Mail, 7 September 1916, Page 3

SOME WAR EXPENSES

V . FIGURES FOR THE JUNE QUARTER.

Some interesting items from, a statement of expenditure under the head ofwar expenses account have (states the Auckland Herald) been supplied by the Hon. James Allen, Minister for Defence. The figures given enow the expenditure for the quarter ended 30th June, 1916, and are as follow: —Expenses of camps and expenditure on recruiting, £25,500 ; purchase of equipment, including boots ,clothing, wagons, carts, etc., £251,000; forage, £29,000; hospital ship Marama, £32,800; medical, including fees, equipment for hospitals', field hospitals and ambulances, surgical instruments, comforts, etc., £40,700; ipay to "troops and allotments, £238,350 ; rations, £92,000; transport of troops, including charter of steamers, meals, and faresi of men, freights, etc., £251,000; expenditure under section 6 of the Public Revenues Amendment Act, 1915, comforts for wounded soldiers and the relief of distress in Belgium. £29,400. These figures are approximate. A statement of war expense* from the beginning of the wax- to 31st March last, presented to the House by Mr Allen a month ago. revealed a total expenditure of £8,015,315.