NEW ZEALAND WAR EXPENDITURE
TOTAL OF OVER TWELVE MILLIONS. WELLINGTON, December 5.A statement of the dominion war expenditure from the outbreak of hostilities to September 30 shows a total of £12,400,569. The principal items are: — Soldiers' pay, £5 396,113. Transport, £2,696,277. Equipment, £1,490,494. Rations, £653,875. Camps (recruiting). £339,391. Forage, £327,713. Hospital ships, £265,817. Homo defence, £226,510. Purchase of horses, £200,313. Advertising und printing office equipment, £32,251. Canteens, £5773. Clerical assistance, £56,336. Medical (including equipment for field and other hospitals, ambulances, comforts), £236,091. Postage.?., telegrams (including war news cables), £37,772 Prisoners of war, £34,539. Mechanical transport, £19,014. Superannuation paid by Government on behalf of civil servants, teachers, and railwaymen with forces, £23,229z3 Travelling expenses and allowances, £6322. _ Administration of Samoa (recoverable from Samoan Administration), £272. Allowances to wives of Imperial soldiers, £744. Commission inquiry, £1065. Deposits for allotments paid through post office in England, £36,650. Discharged soldiers' information department, £1690. Distribution war news and casualty telegrams in New Zealand, £160,C00. Freight on relief . produce for Britain and Belgium, £656. Donations transferred and refunded, £BB9. Grant Colonel Rhodes and secretary, £929. Grants to regimental funds, £2699. Grants to soldiers' hostel, £IOOO. Friendly society insurance death benefits (half cost), £4056. Maintenance enemy subjects, £77. Military supplies purchase office, £1979. Relief purposes, £2l. Recruiting Board. £2771 War bonus, £1651. Belgian relief, £50,433.
New Zealand relief, £136. Appropriation Act, 1914, section 25, £20.000.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3274, 13 December 1916, Page 16
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