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WAR EXPENSES ACCOUNT— continued.

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Appropriations for War Expenses Account.

• Number of Persons. Item. 192 l—aa. WAR EXPENSES— continued. 1921-22. £ VOTE No. 79— continued. £ £ Subdivision No. I. — General Expenditure —continued. 51 52 53" 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 51 52 53 54 56 57 58 .09 CO General Expenses —continued. Refund to Wairarapa Patriotic Association of proportion of proceeds of sale of Soldiers' Club, and officers' mess buildings at Featherston camp ... 300 Sale of surplus stores— Expenses in connection with ... ... 2,000 Superannuation: Contributions of public servants serving with Now Zealand Expeditionary Force 100 Arrears of Contributions of Railway servants while serving with New Zealand Expeditionary Force 950 Transport of troops — Assisted passages of wives and fiances ... 10,000 Four weeks' privilege rail fares in New Zealand ... 10,000 Freight and charges on divisional equipment from United Kingdom to New Zealand ... ... 20,000 General transport in New Zealand ... ... 15,000 Liability to Ministry of Shipping for passage money of New Zealand troops, proportion cost reconditioning vessels, coal, bedding, &c. ... 420,000 Cost of transport of New Zealand Expeditionary Force officers' horses from United Kingdom to New Zealand ... ... ... 15 50 per cent, increase in railway fares for carriage of troops in United Kingdom from 1st April, 1919 ... ... ... 27,000 Travelling-expenses ... ... ... 700 War gratuities— New Zealand Expeditionary Force ... ... 65,000 V.A.D.s. of British domicile who worked in New Zealand hospitals ... ... ... 7,000 War Graves : Supply of headstones for war graves in New Zealand and expenses incidental thereto. Amount required to 31st March, 1921 ... 500 War graves and memorials— New Zealand's proportion of expenses of Imperial War-graves Commission £ 1st October, 1920, to 31st March, 1921 13, 284 1st April, 1921, to 31st December, 1921 35,000 ■ j 48,284 Miscellaneous expenses, photographing graves, he. | 3,000 Contribution to Internal Affairs Department for proportion cost of staff dealing with overseas graves records and correspondence ... ... 600 Memorials to be erected ... ... ... 30,000 300 2,000 100 950 10,000 10,000 20,000 15,000 420,000 15 C>1 27,000 700 62 (13 6-1 65,000 65 7,000 500 (id 70 War Office Account — Estimated balance of claims for animals, issues of equipment, miscellaneous charges against New Zealand Expeditionary Force, interest, &c. ... 350,000 1,871,640 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 ... ... ... 82,800 Total — Subdivision No. I ... — 1,788,840