SEARCHLIGHT ON EXPENDITURE.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received May 20, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, May 19. Tho Committee on National Expenditure reports that the bread subsidy costs forty million pounds annually. It also expresses dissatisfaction at the overstaffing of the War Office, the staff whereof has been increased from 218 at the outset of the war to 1516 last month:
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 4
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60SEARCHLIGHT ON EXPENDITURE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 4
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