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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1919-1920.

STATEMENT of the UNAUTHORIZED EXPENDITURE— continued.

Consolidated Fund— continued. FOR SERVICES NOT PROVIDED TOR—continued. £ s. d. £ s. (1. £ 8. d. Brought forward 1,740 16 11 59,513 13 11 Department of Internal Affairs —continued. Purchase and upkeep of motor-oar for High Commissioner.. Cost of cablegrams transmitted on behalf of the Imperial Government Expenses in connection with Dominion memorial services at Westminster Abbey on 24th May, 1919 Salary of W. Crow, Private Secretary, for period 1st April to 30th Juno, 1920, on leave prior to retirement Salary of G. P. Newton, Assistant Secretary, for period 1st April to 15th May, 1920, granted sick-leave.. Wages of W. J. Foster, night-watchman, for poriod 1st to 14th April, 1920, on leave prior to retirement Wages of Mrs. E. Emery, temporary charwoman, for period 1st April to 17th July, 1920, on sick-leave Salary of T. Culpan, Registrar of Births, Doaths, and Marriages, Auckland, for period 1st to 30th April, 1920, retired from tho service Grant to T. H. McLean, for clerical assistance in tho High Commissioner's Office, London, during period 1st March to 16th May, 1919 .. Grant in lieu of wages to J. H.Thomson, formerly messenger, Napier Compassionate allowance to J. E. Read, late clerk, retired medically unfit 682 0 10 155 14 10 17 10 1 57 10 0 74 3 10 6 8 4 10 2 2 34 11. 8 65 0 0 100 0 0 32 10 0 Printing and Stationery Department: — Cost-of-living bonus of 4s. per week to male adults and 2s. per week to females and males under twenty-one years of age 2,976 8 8 975 7 4 Mental Hospitals Department: — Salary" of Dr. A. C. McKillop, appointed Medical Superintendent of Hokitika Hospital from period 1st April to 31st May, 1920, on accrued leave during absence with New Zealand Expeditionary Force 62 10 0 Department of Public Health, Hospitals, and Cliaritable Aid : — Cost of chartering s.s. " Prinzessin " for transport of NewZealanders stranded in Sydney Grant towards upkeep of Karitane Harris Hospital, Dunedin, in excess of appropriation 6,500 0 0 250 0 0 6,750 0 0 Defence Department : — Advance to the managing director of the New Zealand Flying School, Auckland, on the security of the company's assets, for payment of bank overdraft, £2,750, and trade creditors, £2,100 Payment for services as editors of volumes of " New Zealand History of the War " : Major T. Waite, £250 ; Major A. H. Wilkie, £250 ; Colonel H. Stewart, £250 .. Compensation in full settlement of all claims in respect of injury to Cecil Valler, sustained in bomb explosion at Trentham Camp Contribution towards erecting fence round the grave of the late Miss Lawton, killed by a departmental lorry .. Refund to J. Macfarlane, to which he would have been entitled had his son, D. M. Macfarlane, a military candidate for the Canterbury Flying School, but who died during the epidemic in 1918, qualified for the Royal Aero Club's pilot's certificate Balance of Imprest Account of the late Major W. Meddings, for whloh vouchers and acoounts were lost at sea by enemy action, and the amount could not therefore be cleared in Treasury books Salary of Sergeant-major J. S. Thompson for period 1st to 24th April, 1920, being portion of accrued leave prior to retirement Salary of Captain D. McDonald for period 1st to 30th April, 1920, on leave prior to retirement Salary of Sergeant-major J. Keen for period 1st April to 1st May, 1920, on leave prior to retirement Salary of Lieutenant J. B. Jordan for period 1st to 24th April, 1920, on leave prior to retirement 4,850 0 0 750 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 75 0 0 3 4 0 20 0 0 36 5 0 25 16 2 19 13 4 Carried forward 5,859 18 0 70,277 19 11