8.—7

100

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS X.—DEFENCE DEPARTMENT— continued.

'torn. !: , 1915-16. QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S BRANCH— continued. £ £ 55 56 57 58 59 VOTE No. 61 — continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 5 Labour, repairs, and additions to magazines, store buildings, and grounds, fuel, light, and water ... 2,000 3 Purchase and engraving of medals .... ... 100 1 Passages and expenses of Cadets attending Royal Australian Military College (including pay) ... | 4,000 ■I Passages and expenses of officers and non-com-missioned officers to and from England and other parts of the Empire, including travelling-expenses j and all other allowances ... ... ... 2,700 ■) Payments in respect of injuries, sickness, Sue., sustained by members of Expeditionary Force ... 1,000 1 Payment co James McLeavey in respect of liabilities of the Horowhenua Mounted Rifle Corps disbanded 69 L Postage, telegrams, and letter-boxes ... ... 3,500 I Printing, stationery, and advertising ... ... 3,000 3 Refund Customs duty ... ... 100 t Refund to Land for Settlements Account on account of land taken for a rifle-range at Wither Settlement, Blenheim ... ... ... 1,100 5 Shipping charges, freights, cartage, &c. ... ... 3,500 3 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure in cidental to the other items of the vote ... 50 60 61 62 68 64 65 66 241,536 <i7 68 69 70 71 72 Capital and Non-recurrent Expenditure— (a.) Guns and, Ammunition 1 Armaments: 18-pounder Q.F. guns, 4-5" howitzers, and Maxim guns, and ordnance ammunition ... 24,000 (b.) Arms— i Arms and spare parts, &c. ... ... ... 10,000 (c ) Equipment, dc. — ) Accoutrements, haversacks, water-bottles, tools (entrenching), and other equipment ... ... 6,000 ) I Army service transport wagons, harness, water-carts and equipment ... ... ... 850 1 Camp equipment, including tents, marquees, field cookers, &c, nose-bags, kit-bags, &c. ... ... 3,000 2 Field engineering equipment (including signalling equipment for signal companies and troops, and railway battalions) ... ... ... I 2,000 3 Medical equipment and veterinary service supplies, medical stores, ambulance stretchers, and all equipment for field hospitals ... ... , 350 1 Mobilization stores (on account, £20,000) ... | 2,000 5 Searchlight stores ... ... ... j 1,000 (d.) Clothing — 3 Working suits in lieu of two issues of clothing ... 10,000 J (e.) Liabilities in connection with old Volunteer and Cadet Corps, dc. ... ... ... 25 73 7-1 75 76 77 Total of Capital and Non-recurrent Expenditure 59,225 300,761 Less estimated credits under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 ... ... 2,000 Total—Vote No. 61 ... ... 298, 298,761 TOTAL OF CLASS X .... t492,843 143