COST OF OCCUPATION OF SAMOA.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 12
The following statement, showing the whole cost to New Zealand of the military occupation of Samoa to June 30, 1919, has been supplied by the Minister o£ Defence for publication: —Mobilisation and equipment of troops (advance party and Samoan relief) camps), £9163 9s 4d; equipment, £10,640 16s 4d; advertising, printing, etc., £2C6 33s ll,d; postage, telegrams, etc., £19 76 9s 6d; transports (including hires, fitting out, fuel, etc.), Moeraki £19,672 6s lid, Monowai £13,377 3s 9d, Talune 1£14,697 2s 3d; other items of transport—men returning to New Zealand, freight, etc. — £56,375 12s 8d; pay( advance party and Samoan reliefs) and allowances of troops, £207,866 os; provisions and supplies, forage, £18,135 10s 3d; rations, £60,17:* 8s 3d; medical fees, including examination and equipment, £5532 12s 7d; other items of expenditure (prisoners of war), £487 4s; mechanical transport, £1779 11s sd; purchase of | horses, £760 17s sd;( grand total, i £411, 905 3s 7d.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17664, 13 September 1919, Page 6
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163COST OF OCCUPATION OF SAMOA. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17664, 13 September 1919, Page 6
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