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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.
CLASS X.—DEFENCE DEPARTMENT— continued.
[torn. 1916-17. QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S BRANCH— continued. £ £ 50 51 52 VOTE No. 62— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 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 aud all other allowances ... Payments in respect of injuries, sickness, &c, sustained by members of Expeditionary Force ... Postage, telegrams, and letter-boxes Printing, stationery, and advertising Refund Customs duty Shipping charges, freights, cartage, &c. ... Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure in cidental to the other items of the vote 100 4,000 2,500 53 1,000 6,000 4,000 200 4,500 54 55 56 57 58 50 Capital and Non-recurrent Expenditure— (a.) Guns and Ammunition — Armaments: 18-pounder Q.F. guns, 4-5" howitzers, and Maxim guns, and ordnance ammunition 248,815 59 24,000 (b.) Arms — Arms and spare parts, &c. ... 10,000 60 61 62 63 64 (c) Equipment, dc. — Accoutrements, haversacks, water-bottles, tools (entrenching), and other equipment Army service transport wagons, harness, water-carts and equipment Camp equipment, including tents, marquees, field cookers, &c, nose-bags, kit-bags, &c. ... Field engineering equipment (including signalling equipment for signal companies and troops, and railway battalions) Medical equipment and veterinary service supplies, medical stores, ambulance stretchers, and all equipment for field hospitals Mobilization stores Searchlight stores 6,000 850 8,000 i,000 65 66 67 350 2,000 400 (d.) Clothing — Working suits in lieu of two issues of clothing 5,000 68 69 (e.) Liabilities in connection with old Volunteer and Cadet Corps, dc. 30 Total of Capital and Non-recurrent Expenditure 52,630 Less estimated credits under Seotion 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 301,445 2,000 Total —Vote No. 62 299. 299,445 TOTAL OF CLASS X £4:9, ,640