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WAR EXPENSES ACCOUNT— continued.

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Ap prop nations for War Expenses Account.

Item.! WAR EXPENSES— continued. VOTE No. 79- continued. • Number (f Persons. 1921-22. .921-22. £ £ Subdivision No. I. — General Expenditure —continued. General Expenses —continued. 25 League of Nations : New Zealand's proportion of secretariat expenses— £ Half-year to 31st December, 1920 ... 3,120 For year ending 31st December, 1921... 6,000 26 Mechanical transport Medals and decorations — 27 Cost of war medals 28 Pay of medal engraving staff, materials, ribbons, Sec. Medical expenses, &c.— 29 Subsidy to Hanmer Golf Club for use of links by patients 30 Artificial-limb manufacture 31 Dental services 32 Funeral expenses of ex-inembers of New Zealand Expeditionary Force 33 Cost of medical treatment of late Reverend J. A. Luxford, Chaplain to N.Z.E.F. 34 Cost of medical treatment, Lieutenant J. J. Trainer 35 Payment to Public Health Department re V.D. clinics to 31st May, 1921 36 Medical supplies and treatment of soldiers at military hospitals, sanatoria, and at public hospitals 37 Salaries of administrative staff Military Supplies Purchase Office— 38 Salaries and office expenses 39 Office Expenses: Proportion rent, High Commissioner's office, in connection with war-expenses matters and graves-registration 40 Payment to General Post Office to reimburse stamp credit placed in hands of N.C.O. at Somes Island by Chief Postmaster and not accounted for Pay of Troops — 41 Provision for issues not cleared, balances of pay still due, balances deceased soldiers' estates, refunds due to Australian and Imperial forces for advances to New Zealand Expeditionary Force, &c. 42 Retrospective Allowances— £ Married ... ... 5,000 Children's ... ... 5,000 Widowed mothers and other dependants 50,000 9,120 10,000 50,000 2,000 50 10,000 1,500 2,000 67 59 1,100 360,000 5,041 300 3 50,000 60,000 43 Difference between New Zealand Expeditionary Force and Imperial rates of pay, allowances and gratuities for members of Imperial, Naval, and Air Forces domiciled in New Zealand 44 Postage, telegrams, cables, telephones, etc. Preparation War Histories— 45 Further payment to Colonel Hugh Stewart, as writer of second volume, Official History of New Zealand Expeditionary Force 46 Payment to Lieut.-Col. C. G. Powles for services in writing a volume of Official History of New Zealand Expeditionary Force 47 Prisoners of war and alien enemies, maintenance and repatriation of 48 Proportion of damages assessed against New Zealand troops in connection with riots at Isinailia, Egypt, in December, 1918 49 Pukeora Sanatorium Farm ... 50 Rations 46 15,000 10,000 150 250 47 5,000 •18 4,048 3,000 40,000 49 50 "Transferred to voto, " New Zealand Military forces and Oadets.—Subdivil *Trai lion No. V."