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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS X.—DEFENCE DEPARTMENT— continued.

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Item. 191 ■15. QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S BRANCH— continued. £ 58 59 60 61 62 VOTE No. 61— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. Payment to James McLeavey in respect of liabilities of the Horowhenua Mounted Rifle Corps disbanded Postage, telegrams, and letter-boxes Printing, stationery, and advertising Refund Customs duty Refund of expenses incurred by the South Waimakariri River Board in connection with a suggested exchange of land for purposes of a training-ground Shipping charges, freights, insurance, &c. Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure in cidental to the other items of the vote 69 2,500 3,000 100 72 5,000 63 64 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 (b.) Arms — Arms and spare parts, &c.—15,000 Lee-Enfield rifles purchased in England (10,000 at £1 0s. 9+d. each, £10,385 8s. 4d., and 5,000 at £1 12s. 6d., £8,125); (15,000 purchased in Canada, £3,000); 15,000 protectors and oil-bottles, and 25,000 pull-throughs and rifle-slings, £1,500 (c ) Equipment, &c. — Accoutrements, haversacks, water-bottles, tools (entrenching), and other equipment Army service transport wagons, harness, wafer-carts and equipment Camp equipment, including tents, marquees, field cookers, &c, nose-bags, kit-bags, &o. ... 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 (on account, £20,000) Searchlight stores (d.) Clothing — Working suits in lieu of two issues of clothing (e.) Liabilities in connection with old Volunteer and Cadet Corps, <&c. 232,394 65 | 24,000 66 23,011 67 9,300 68 69 750 70 3,200 4,000 71 72 73 350 2,000 2,500 74 10,000 75 500 Total of Capital and Non-recurrent Expenditure 79,611 Less estimated credits under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 ;312,005 5,500 Total —Vote No. 61 i L ■ ■ 306,505 TOTAL OF CLASS X £512,£ .28