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Table showing Flying Returns for the Year ended 31st March, 1922.

T. M*. Wilkes, Captain, Secretary, New Zealand Air Board.

APPENDIX C.—WAR EXPENSES ACCOUNT. Detailed Statement of Expenditure from the Beginning of the War to the 31st March, 1922.

('ompany. Hours flown. Approximate Machine Mileage. Number of Passengers carried. few Zealand Plying School ianterbury Aviation Corflpany few Zealand Aero Transport Company Totals B. M. 312 11 253 8 441 0 1,006 19 21,174 16.869 30,996 1,940 3,051 4,391 69,039 9,382

Particulars. Expenditure. expenditure under Section 8 of the Public Revenues Amendment Act, 1914 (War Purposes), and Section 4, Finance Act, 1918, No. 2 (War Purposes). idvertising, printing, office equi pment, &c. — Office expenses— Samoa Egypt United Kingdom New Zealand £ s. d, 35 11 3 980 17 3 22,746 3 5 90,402 1 9 £ s. d. £ s. d. Advertising— Samoa Egypt United Kingdom New Zealand I 114,164 13 8 132 13 8 17 14 8 1,151 10 4 11,464 12 8 12,766 11 4 Printing and stationery— Samoa Egypt United Kingdom New Zealand 72 11 7 2,881 16 9 17,931 7 2 90,570 1 10 Office equipment— Samoa Egypt United Kingdom New Zealand 111,461 17 4 71 10 6 104 8 11 1,405 17 0 9,240 0 6 10,881 16 11 31,701 12 8 Cost of services rendered by Postal Department in connection with payment of allotments and pay-warrants in New Zealand Half cost of expenses in connection with the raising and distribution of relief funds Preparation of war records and history Amount required to recoup Imprest Accounts for vouchers lost in transit Less credits .. .. .. 7,287 3 7 8,410 9 11 50 9 0 296,724 14 5 18,528 1 6 278,196 12 11 22 10 0 (mount fraudulently obtained from High Commissioner's Office by unknown person representing himself to be a member of N.Z. Expeditionary Force !amps, expenses of (including concentration) — Main Body and Reinforcements— Expenses of New Zealand Forces abroad— United Kingdom, Egypt, &e. Samoa 297,708 5 0 11,116 4 2 308,824 9 2 Camps in New Zealand — Narrow Neck Trentham Eeatherston Tunnelling Corps 24,315 15 2 384,092 3 5 348,109 9 I 583 19 2 1,210,471 8 8 757,101 6 10 236,097 13 9 Other general expenses, including Main Body camps, Awapuni, Rangiotu, Waikanae, and other temporary camps Less credits 1,302,023 9 9 91,552 1 1