THE STATES BAD DEBTS

Southland Times, Issue 18983, 18 November 1920, Page 5

THE STATES BAD DEBTS

IRRECOVERABLE ITEMS. Under the beading of stuns irrecoverahld by the Crown, the following items appeajj on the Supplementary Estimate*:- — Store*, clothing and equipment, Tretnfa* am and Fcatherston military camps, attrU butable to disorganisation, brought about Iby the influenza epidemic, £274. CauterI bury military district (various group? and units 1, inability to allocate responsibility fog I losses, and in order to adjust ledgers and stock under the new permanent ordnance service £2532. Same for Wellington military district, £14,787. Same for Auckland military district £9006, Ordnance stored ex s.s. Mokoia. negligence could not be proved £467. Equipment, in King George V. Hospital, Rotorua, £23. Equipment m officers’ clothing department, London, £l2l. Damage done by New Zealand troops at Sling camp, on March 14 and 15, 1919* £8272. Stores on charge to Walton-on-Thames Hospital, England, £215. Stores j purchased for use in connection with voca- | tional training of returned soldiers; defective book-keeping and improper banding over of stores by instructresses, £5lB. Military clothing, uniforms and stores destroyed by "fire when the ordnance depot was burnt in Dunedin, £1237. New Zealand State coal depot, Wellington, coal short at year ended March 31, 1920, £BBI. Coke short at year ended March 31, 1920, £143. In the war expenses account the following item appears —Proportion of damages assessed against New Zealand troops by board of inquiry', Cairo, in connection with riots at L-mailia, Egypt, in July, 1919, whkh resulted in looting and damage to private pro* perty (assessment, Australia 40 per cent., i New Zealand 40 per cent., United Kingdom | 20 per cent), £2529.