DEFENCE EQUIPMENT
PROVISION FOR LOSSES COST OF CRASHED PLANES (OC.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 7. Items of £40,755 and £50,143 shown respectively in a statement accompanying the Supplementary Estimates as army and air stores lost, broken or deficient. were questioned by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, in the House of Representatives to-night. He also asked what steps had been taken to give effect to the Auditorgeneral’s recommendation that a more satisfactory system of accounting should be employed. The Minister of Finance, Mr W. Nash, said the whole question of accounting was being gone into at present. So far as the army item of £40,000 was concerned, it did not give a true impression, because this included materials sent to Australia, gun-carriages and other equipment worth £35,000. “ I am afraid that this; is mainly for crashing aeroplanes,” the Minister added, referring to the air item of £SO 143. Mr Holland: There have been a lot of crashes, and you don’t get many aircraft for £50,000. The Minister of Defence, Mr F. Jones: Many have been repaired. Mr Nash added that some of the machines crashed were trainers, which were not an expensive type.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24732, 8 October 1941, Page 4
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