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Appropriations for War Expenses Account.

WAR EXPENSES ACCOUNT— continued.

28— B. 7.

Number of Persons. Item. I VOTE No. 77.—WAR EXPENSES— continued. 192--25. 1924-25. Subdivision No. I. — General Expenditure —continued. £ £ General Expenses —continued. 600 18,000 10,000 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Printing and stationery Railway concessions to disabled soldiers Rations Rent, High Commissioner's Office: Proportion chargeable in respect of space occupied in dealing with war accounts and graves registration Sale of surplus stores, expenses in connection with ... Transport of troops — Freight and charges on divisional equipment from United Kingdom to New Zealand ... General transport in New Zealand Liability tb Imperial Shipping Liquidation for passage money of New Zealand troops, proportion cost reconditioning vessels, coal, bedding, &c. (including Hospital Ships and repatriation of alien enemies and prisoners of war Travelling-expenses War gratuities— New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and V.A.D.s of British domicile who worked in New Zealand hospitals War graves and memorialsBattlefield memorials under erection ... Contribution to Department of Internal Affairs for proportion salaries of staff dealing with overseas graves records and correspondence ... Headstones for war graves in New Zealand and expenses incidental thereto Miscellaneous expenses, photographing graves, &e. New Zealand's proportion of expenses of Imperial War Graves Commission 100,000 10 600 7,000 500 50 20 21 500 22 23 11,000 320 24 3,500 2,000 25 26 25,000 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 (see end of vote) — Sale of— £ Medical stores, treatment, &c. ... 4,800 Surplus stores ... ... 15,000 Miscellaneous credits ... 350 Transport (adjustment with Department of Immigration for passages of wives and fiancees) ... 12,000 32,150 Total — Subdivision No. I 318,262 Subdivision No. II — Repatriation. Repatriation (Repatriation Act, 1918) — 27 27 Salaries, including Honoraria ... 1,200 28 29 30 28 29 30 Other Charges for and incidental to — Financial assistance to soldiers (mostly recoverable) General administration expenses Grant to Otago University towards fees of returned soldier students 5,000 100 150