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WAR EXPENSES ACCOUNT. STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE FROM BEGINNING OF WAR TO 31st MARCH, 1916.

Laid on the Table of the House of Representatives by Leave.

War Expenses Account. — Statement of Expenditure from Beginning of War to 31st March, 1916.

Amount. Item. To 31st March, 1915. To 31st March, 1916. Total to 31st March. 191(5. ■*"■ Expenditure under Section 8 of Public Revenues Ac t, 1914 ( War Purposes) — Advertising, printing, office equipment, &c. Canteens Camps, expenses of (including recruiting) Clerical assistance Equipment (including purchase of boots, clothing, G.S. wagons, am-munition-carts, &c. i* s. d. 4,223 2 5 25,492 1 0 23,982 5 2 £ s. d. 16,316 5 1 Qr. 6,675 16 0 279,754 9 4 £ s. d. 20,539 7 6 18,816 5 0 303,736 14 6 4,401 15 10 276,389 2 2 24,299 4 10 717,264 10 6 28,701 0 8 993,653 12 8 Forage ... Home defence (forts, harbour patrols, examination of steamers, guarding cables, wireless stations, railway picquets, censors) Hospital ship " Maheno " ... Hospital ship " Marama "... Mechanical transport Medical (including fees, equipment for hospitals, field hospitals and ambulances, surgical instruments, comforts, &c.) 46,662 2 5 120,021 12 7 182,230 8 7 73,648 0 2 228,892 11 0 193,669 12 9 6,395 6 1 17,791 13 7 84,793 0 9 45,133 3 4 8,337 10 3 87,717 13 8 84,793 0 9 45,133 3 4 14,732 16 4 105,509 7 3 Pay Postage and telegrams (including preparing war-news cables for despatch to New Zealand from United Kingdom and cable charges thereon) Prisoners of war ... Purchase of horses, and expenses incidental thereto Rations 584,988 5 11 2,585 13 11 2,525,066 0 1 21,819 13 11 3,110,054 6 0 24,405 7 10 7,873 5 7 107,221 6 4 15,755 14 8 88,856 5 7 23,629 0 3 196,077 11 11 135,877 15 4 325,678 1 0 461,555 16 4 Carried forward ... ...I 1,363,905 8 4 4,496,670 1 9 5,853,899 14