B—7 [Pt. I]

YEAE ENDING 31 MARCH, 1949

POLICE DEPARTMENT— continued

(a) Includes £9,155 cost of vehicles made available to Department prior to 31st March, 1948, Irat not paid for. (b) Includes £17,300 for allowances varying from £l2 to £lOO per annum to 287 officers for the use of their own motor-vehicles on police duty. (c) Additional radio and scientific equipment provided for last year was not available. Provision again made this financial year. (d) Provision for increased extension of teleprinter, telephone, and radio services. (e) Over-expenditure due to extension of telephone services and increased costs of maintenance.

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Y0T1—POLICE— continued 1947-48. 1948-49. Subdivision No. I — Police —continued Voted. Expended. Othee Charges foe and incidental to — continued £ £ £ Launches — Purchase of .. 100 100 Maintenance and hire 1,100 1,000 " 1,076 Medical, dental, and veterinary services, medicines and medical stores, ambulance instruction and hire, and hospital charges for police disabled through duty 200 200 106 Motor-vehicles — Purchase of .. {a) 12,500 5,000 2,301 Maintenance of (6)30,000 27,000 28,763 Office expenses (including typewriter allowances) 12,000 9,900 10,908 Office fittings and requisites, radio, and scientific equipment (c) 8,000 10,000 (c) 2,409 Payment of monetary equivalent of leave due to deceased officers 500 5Q0 512 Police examinations, expenses of . . 400 350 386 Police prosecutions and inquests, legal and medical advice, interpreting, payments for special services, and expenses of departmental inquiries (part r ecoverable) 5,000 4,000 4,329 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department (d) 28,000 21,000 (e) 24,392 Printing and stationery 11,000 9,000 10,192 Rations 1,300 1,150 1,214 Rent of stations, quarters, and paddocks, and rates on leasehold and acquired properties 5,000 o,000 4,891 Repairing, painting, and improving police premises 500 500 475 Repairs, &c, and compensation for loss of or damage to private vehicles and property .. 250 100 86 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 Drugs Act and breaches of Revenue Acts 250 300 195 Rewards to members of the Force for meritorious conduct 50 50