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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1949

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAlRS— continued

REMARKS

(a) Expenditure greater than anticipated. (b) Overexpenditure due to increased bonus as from Ist October, 1947. (c) Provision this year to cover balance of supplies ordered. Number of Name of Conferehee, &c. Persons Cost. travelling. £ s. d. (d) Conference with Australian War Historians at Canberra .. 2 200 9 0 Combined Conference of British Commonwealth and American War Historians at Washington .. .. .. .. .. 2 1,120 19 7 British Commonwealth Conference on Nationality and Citizenship at London .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 1,345 10 1 Transferring New Zealand Military Cemetery, New Caledonia, to Imperial «War Graves Commission .. .. .. .. 1 123 14 0 Conference of Chief Inspectors of Explosives of Australian States and New Zealand at Melbourne .. .. .. .. 1 13 3 7 British Commonwealth Medical Historians Committee, Ottawa .. 1 585 111 United Nations Committee of Jurists, Washington .. .. 1 28 10 0 Liaison Officer accompanying Maori party to Tonga and Cook Group of Islands .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 121 8 8 Conference at Fiji regarding use of patriotic funds for welfare of Service personnel .. .. • • .. .. .. 1 84 6 4 Two officers taking up appointments with Imperial War Graves Commission (recoverable) .. .. .. .. .. 2 12 10 6 £3,635 13 8 (e) Buildings not erected last year. ,(/) A number of purchases were not completed last year. (g) Represents cost of obtaining trucks, small trailer pumps, hose, and experimental equipment for resale to country urban brigades.

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