WAR EXPENSES ACCOUNT. STATEMENT OF NET EXPENDITURE FROM BEGINNING OF WAR TO 31st MARCH, 1917.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1917 Session I, B-04

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1917 NEW ZEALAND.

WAR EXPENSES ACCOUNT. STATEMENT OF NET EXPENDITURE FROM BEGINNING OF WAR TO 31st MARCH, 1917.

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WAR EXPENSES ACCOUNT. Statement ok Net Expenditure from Beginning of War to 31st March, 1917.

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Expenditure, Particulars. Total to 31st December, 1910. From 31st December, 1910, to 31st March, 1917. Total to 31st March, 1917. Expenditure under Section S of the Public Revenues Amendment Act, 1914 (War Purposes). £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Advertising, printing, office equipment, &c. Canteons on transports .. .. .. .. .; Camps, expenses of (including concentrating) Clerical assistance Equipment (including purchase of boots, clothing, G.S. wagon-, ammunition-carts, &c.) .. Forage Home defence (forts, harbour patrols, examination of steamer.-, guar i ing cables, wireless-stations, railway pickets, censors) Hospital ship '• Maheno" .. Hospital ship " Marama " .. Mechanical transport Medical (including fees, equipment for hospitals, field hospitals avd ambulances, surgical instruments, comforts, &c.) Pay and allowances Postage, telegrams, and telephones (including preparing war-news cables for despatch to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, and cable oharges thereon) Prisoners of war Purchase of horses, and expenses incidental thereto Rations Superannuation paid by Government on behalf of Civil servants, teachers, and railway servants serving with the Expeditionary Force Transport of troops (including charter of steamers, meals and fares of men travelling to join, freight, cartage, &e.) Travelling-expenses and allowances Administrative, Samoa, recoverable from Samoan Administration Commissions of inquiry .. .. .. .. ... Allowances to wives of Imperial soldiers and reservists residing in New Zealand Deposits for allotments paid through post-offices in the United Kingdom Discharged Soldiers' Information Department, expenses Distribution of war news and casualty lists in New Zealand Donations refunded and transferred .. .. .'. Freight on Great Britain and Belgium relief produce Grants to regimental funds Grants to soldiers' hostels — London .. .. .. .. £2,500 New Zealand .. .. .. .. 1,000 45,063 4 2 7,208 7 6 445,945 18 1 75,073 7 1 22,981 12 9 5,453 18 9 42,634 16 7 31,271 9 5 j 68,644 16 11 12,662 6 3 488,580 14 8 106,344 16 6 1,722,303 8 5 283,588 13 6 191,631 I 8 Cr. 34,191 14 2 1,913,934 10 1 249,396 19 4 234,459 15 9 172,076 19 6 142,474 3 11 1.9,828 17 11 26,092 18 4 28,566 18 5 25,012 8 5 426 9 4 260,552 14 1 200,043 17 II 167,486 12 4 20,255 7 3 282,652 18 1 6,687,288 13 3 55,545 8 1 1,771,480 16 11 338,198 6 2 8,458,769 10 2 42,297 6 2 44,514 3 7 206,039 5 6 744,953 11 7 19,379 7 11 7,927 12 10 3,429 7 7 178,188 17 2 61,676 14 1 52,441 16 5 209,468 13 1 923,142 8 9 30,295 8 !1 5,050 0 10 .35,345 15 9 3,111,750 14 0 7.884 4 11 272 10 9 1,065 19 1 423,971 3 8 1,316 11 7 Or. 259 10 9 1 11 6 3,535,721 17 8 9,200 16 6 13 0 0 1,067 10 7 1,027 13 6 59,650 0 0 2,482 14 2 160,000 0 0 889 14 3 656 16 11 2,699 0 0 4,071 18 2 20,000 0 0 941 17 0 100,000 0 0 5,099 11 8 79,650 0 0 3,424 11 2 260,000 0 0 889 14 3 656 16 11 2,699 0 0 1 2,500 0 0 l.,000 0 0 3,500 0 0 Half-cost of reinsurance of death benefits of members of Friendly Societies serving with the Expeditionary Force Maintenance of indigent enemy subjects in New Zealand New Zealand Munitions and Supplies Department, expenses Military Seivice Act : Expenses of administration (including Recruiting, Military Service, and Medical Boards) War bonus of military staff Per capita payments to War Office for maintenance of New Zealand troops in the field, ammunition, extra transport, &c. National Efficiency Board, administrative expenses 6,574 2 11 102 10 0 2,633 9 3 5,239 9 8 5,083 18 0 848 6 6 1,399 13 10 11,431 16 11 1,410 3 3 7,422 9 5 102 10 0 4,033 3 1 16,671 6 7 6,494 1 3 4,500,000 0 0 491 2 10 4,500,000 0 0 491 2 10 Total net expenditure for war purposes 14,557,177 0 4 7,447,506 11 4 22,004,683 11 8 Expenditure under Section fi of the Public Revenues Amendment Act, 1915. Relief purposed Belgium New Zealand 160,735 16 5 160 16 0 40,848 8 1 201,584 4 6 160 16 0 Appropriation Act, 1914. 20,000 0 0 Sootion 25 r • 20,000 0 0 Totals | £14,738,073 12 9 £7,488,354 19 5 £22,226.428 12 2 P.S. -This statement does not include oharges and expenses of raising war loans nor im idimx. 'rests outstai