TREASURY'S " BAD DEBTS."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17914, 17 October 1921, Page 6

TREASURY'S " BAD DEBTS."

TOTAL OF £26,284 WRiTTEN OFF

REPATRIATION LOSSES

The annual report of the AuditorGeneral contains a schedule of losses or deficiencies in cash, stores, or supply for which Parliamentary authority will be required before they can be written off. The total amount is £26,283 14s 9d. Following are the principal items, with the observations of the Auditor-General :— Advances, etc., under Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act (debtors deceased, left New Zealand, or unfinancial), £10,513 18s lOd.

Charter b.s. Tutanekai (amount outstanding against the Southern 'isles Exploitation Company. Company gone into liquidation. No likelihood of unsecured creditors receiving any money), £1174 10fl 7d.

Repatriation: Balance of loans, etc., outstanding and irrecoverable, grantees having died or left the country, etc., £3875 7s sd.

Value of defence stores destroyed, lost, etc., during period October 18, 1919, to October 19, 1920 clothing and personal equipment, £2247 12s 7d ; bosp ; f.al clothing and bedding, £441 19s 8d; arms and accoutrements, £34 3s 2d camp equipment, £169 10s Id: barrack and hospital ui prop { £9.38 13s Id; general equipSo?*A L a} 9 10s M ' stor * losßes epidemic, £22 .Ob 4d; vocational stores, £595 Is 6d ; electric light stores, £2 3s Id-total £4570

Deficiency in stores in Chalmers Mili- I m.lV,rv° a ll1 (O *, U ' S l ° intermixturt of I V 't Id . t!lnl «l ui F m «". losses by l,l! and breakages), £012 8,5 2d ', Deficiency in respect of equipment arc! ! ■tores at the Auckland Military L d ' to ihe value of £2322 5s 3d. the Cmwn i bo, ; ,tor advise,! that the responsibility "0.-pit.il hoard alone, and that leaal r.rn i xio.|.ii,ii H,,;,d alone, and that .. a; ,.| nrri I could not be taken gainst hat board for recovery of the sun?. Neither » bo Hospital Board nor the Defence I 6 CIS appear,, to have taken any fi top ß i-o check the equipment supplied or taken away f r „ m the hospital ' *" US" 1 !!" stolen from Que*,, Mary's Ji'spital, Hanmcr (losses occurred through patients taking underclothing aw arid JJ-gjckauj system being Lity^?