8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

CLASS X.—DEFENCE DEPARTMENT— continued.

98

.tern. 1914-15. 36 QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S BRANCH— continued. VOTE No. 61— continued. (d.) Stores and Magazines— continued. Army Service Transport Wagons, Harness,Pack-saddlery, Water-carts, Saddlery, Bicycles, dc. — Wagons and harness, £150 ; saddles, £100 ; bicycles, £100 £ 350 37 Camp Equipment, dc. — Kettles (camp), £250; blankets (general service), £1,100; picks, shovels, brooms, lanterns, scales, tools, &c, £300; tent-line, spare parts for tents and marquees, £150... 1,800 38 Medical Equipment and Veterinary Service Supplies — Medical stores, medicine chests, surgical haversacks, veterinary chests and ambulance stretchers, and all equipment for field hospitals, tables, refilling medical and veterinary chests, farriers' tools, &c... • 500 39 40 •41 Ordnance — Ordnance and field gun ammunition ... £9,700 Small-arms ammunition and cordite ... 39,865 Ordnance stores and spares ... ... 1,500 (on account) ... 51,065 37,000 42 Clothing — Supply of uniforms, &c, for Territorial Force —Greatcoats, £7,916; jackets, £4,577; trousers, £1,870; pantaloons, £876; hats and puggarees, £3,000; caps, £1,563; putties, £750; "boots, £2,100 (on account) Supply of uniforms, &c, for Senior Cadets —Blouses, £5,856 ; shorts, £2,619 ; hats, £2,500 ; puttie hose, £792 (on account) 19,300 43 9,000 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 Other Charges for and incidental to — Aeroplanes and housing of same Audit fees for inspection of accounts Components for wireless apparatus Compensation to Private A. E. Thurgood, 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment, for loss of horse which was injured while returning from parade on the 10th July, 1913 Expenses in connection with Imperial Services Exhibition Expenses in connection with the purchase of warlike stores in England, including salary of clerk to Inspector of Warlike Stores Explosives and Dangerous Goods Act, 1908 Funeral expenses Insurance on buildings Labour, repairs, and additions to magazines, store buildings, and grounds, fuel, light, and water Purchase and engraving of medals Passages and expenses of Cadets attending Royal Australian Military College (including pay) Passages and expenses of officers and non-com-missioned officers to and from England and other parts of the Empire, including travelling-expenses and all other allowances ... Payment to Captain R. B. Smythe, New Zealand Staff Corps, of the difference in cost of first- and second-class passages of himself and family from Dunedin to London 50 100 50 5 40 100 200 25 200 54 55 1,500 150 56 4,000 2,700 57 62