B—7 [Pt. I]

YEAK ENDING 31 MARCH, 1948

POLICE DEPARTMENT— continued

(a) Includes £17,000 for allowances varying from £2O to £lOO per annum to 280 officers for the use of their own motor-vehicles on police duty. (b) Expenditure incurred last financial year which did not come to charge. Provision made in 1947-48. (c) Overexpenditure due to extension of teleprinter and telephone services. (d) Overexpenditure due to increased charges owing to increased costs of labour and material.

121

Y OTE —POLICE —continued 1946-47. 1947-48. Subdivision No. I —Police—continued Voted. Expended. Other Charges for and incidental to — continued £ £ £ Launches — Purchase of .. 100 100 1,400 Maintenance and hire 1,000 2,500 566 Medical, dental, and veterinary services, medicines and medical stores, ambulance instruction and hire, and hospital charges for police disabled through duty 200 100 224 Motor-vehicles — Purchase of .. 5,000 5,000 3,887 Maintenance of (a) 27,000 28,900 28,691 Office expenses (including typewriter allow9,579 ances) 9,900 9,000 Office fittings and requisites, radio, and (b) 6,987 scientific equipment 10,000 12,000 Payment of monetary equivalent of leave due 500 137 to deceased officers 500 Police examinations, expenses of .. 350 250 338 Police prosecutions and inquests, legal and medical advice, interpreting, payments for special services, and' expenses of depart4,153 mental inquiries (part recoverable) 4,000 3,000 Payments to Post and Telegraph Depart(c) 20,027 ment 21,000 18,500 Printing and stationery 9,000 6,000 (d) 8,890 Rations 1,150 1,000 1,023 Rent of stations, quarters, and paddocks, and 4,700 5,019 rates on leasehold and acquired properties 6,000 Repairing, painting, and improving police 500 500 481 premises Repairs, &c., and compensation for loss of or damage to private vehicles and property .. 100 Rewards and expenses for the suppression of sly-grog selling and the introduction of liquor into prohibited districts, also for the detection of offences against the Dangerous 289 Drugs Act and breaches of Revenue Acts 300 300 Rewards to members of the Force for meri44 torious conduct 50 50