LOSS OF £225,700
MILITARY STORES FIRE ARMY DEPARTMENT ESTIMATE (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday Evidence presented to the coroner’s inquiry by the officer commanding the ordnance depot at the showgrounds, Captain W. S. Keegan, as to the damage caused by the fire on December 31 last set the loss to the Army Department at £225,700. The total value of all stock at the depot at the end of December, 1944, was £1,100,000. Captain Keegan said thefts up to the time of the fire were very small from the ordnance depot. The greater part of overall deficiencies was the result of miscounting. In two years and nine months the losses from all sources amounted to £627. For the same period there were brought on charge surpluses to the value of £I6OO. Thus the surplus outweighed the shortages by about £IOOO. Witness detailed the accounting system of charging for goods. From his knowledge of the store there could be definitely no suggestion that the fire was started to conceal shortages.
(Proceeding)
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Waikato Times, Volume 196, Issue 22568, 23 March 1945, Page 4
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