OCCUPATION OF SAMOA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17729, 13 September 1919, Page 9

OCCUPATION OF SAMOA

| WHAT IT COST NEW ZEALAND. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. (Pes United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 12. The following statement, showing tho whole cost to New Zealand of the military occupation of Samoa to the 30th June, 1919, has been supplied by the Minister of • Defence for publication:— Mobilisation and equipment of troops ter vancc P art y and Samoan relief): Camps, ' £9163 9s 4d; equipment, £10,640 16s 4d. Advertising, printing, eta; £265 13s lid; postage, telegrams, eta, £1976 9s 6d. Uransporte (including hire, fitting out, fueL etc.): Moeraki, £10,672 os lid; Mcmowai, £13.377 os 9d; Tahine, £14,697 2s 3d. Other items of transport: Men returning to New Zealand, freight, etc., £56,375 12s 6d; pay. (advance party and Samoan reliefs), and allowances of troops, £207,866 ss. Provisions and supplies: Forage, £18,125 10a 3d; rations, £60,175 8s 3d. Medical (including- examination fees and equipment), £5532 12s 7d. Otner items of expenditure: Prisoners of war, £487 4s; mechanical trans* port, £1779 lis sd; purchase of horses, £760 17s od. Grand total, £411,905 5s 7d.