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Schedule of Imperfect Vouchers passed, etc. — continued.

Statement showing the Detail of Sums irrecoverable by the Crown, or Value of Stores, etc. ; required to be written off departmental accounts.

Name. Particulars. No. Amount. Total Amount. Captain Mackintosh A. M. Marsh Police Department. £ s. d. £ s. d. Steamer fare and cablegrams .. .. 2 12 4 3 Taxi-hire .. .. .. .. 2 4 9 10 16 14 1 E. T. O'Connell L. A. Wells i • • i Post and Telegraph Department. Steamer fare .. .. .. ..Ill 1501 Travelling-expenses .. .. .. | 2 I 0 9 6 | 114 6 W. Reece Sir G. Fenwick .. Prisons Department. Steamer fare .. . . .. .. 2 3 0 0 .. 1 3 0 0 6 0 0 F. T. M. Kissel J. H. Ingley H. R. Goodman A. E. Clark Public Works Department. Travelling-expenses in Great Britain, America, 2 70 9 2 and Continent Travelling-expenses .. .. .. 1 7 4 0 Steamer fare ... .. .. .. 2 2 10 0 Excess luggage .. .. .. .. 2 0 12 0 86 15 2 Wairoa Motor Garage ( (Limited) B. B. Johnson Company Tourist Department. Wages .. .. .. .. .. 1 17 0 0 Steamer fare .. .. .. .. 2 0 12 6 ' 17 12 6 A. McGregor N. G. Robertson Total d Treasury Department. Steamer fare .. .. .. .. 2 0 17 6 ..2 15 0 2 2 6 [ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. £493 13 3

Claims abandoned. Reason for writing off. Department and Particulars. Value of Stores. Cash. Agriculture. Motor-tractor purchased in 1918 for sale to a farmer at Tokarahi, to encourage wheatgrowing Tractor had deteriorated to the extent of £356 9s. Id. when the Department resumed possession on default of the purchaser £ s. d. 356 9 1 £ s. d. Defence. Value of equipment issued to Territorials and Cadets Value of equipment on issue Stock deficient on completion of sale of surplus military stores at Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, and Christchurch Value of stores and equipment of various units found deficient at stocktaking Sale of surplus military stores at Featherston Sale of surplus military stores at Christchurch Sale of surplus military stores at Christchurch Hire charges on blankets and pillows Stores deficient at conclusion of sale of equipment at Trentham Hospital Stores on issue to Post and Telegraph Engineers Overpayments on N.Z. Expeditionary Force pay accounts Value of buildings, furniture, equipment, medical and surgical supplies, &c., at Cashmere Military Sanatorium Trainees untraceable 95 15 7 Lost, stolen, broken, &e. Impossible to attach the responsibility to any individual 701 10 4 9,646 4 10 Unable to allocate responsibility for losses 640 3 0 Reduction in selling-price Reduction in selling-price Destroyed or lost in transit Irrecoverable—hirer in Australia Impossible to attach responsibility to any individual Deficient on handing over to Corps of Signallers Irrecoverable owing to desertion or other 1,965 10 8 2,757 3 1 83 1 6 1 19 5 66 1 0 58 14 8 3,699 11 8 Value of furniture and equipment at the Evelyn Firth Convalescent Home, Auckland causes Handed over to the North Canterbury Hospital Board free of charge for the continuation of treatment of returned soldier T.B. patients upon the institution being taken over by the Hospital Board from the Defence Department Handed over upon the Red Cross Committee undertaking the administration of the Home for treatment of chronic invalid returned soldiers Handed over to Patriotic Committee upon its taking over the administration of the Home for the treatment of chronic invalid returned soldiers Handed over to Red Cross Committee upon its taking over the administration of the Home for the treatment of chronic invalid returned soldiers 7,746 3 4 833 13 3 1,009 12 4 Value of furniture, equipment, and modical and surgical stocks at Rannerdalo Convalescent Home, Christchurch Value of medical and surgical stocks at Monteeillo Convalescent Home, Dunedin 61 19 3