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FEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1943.

TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT— continued.

• REMARKS. (a) Expenditure not brought to charge until 1942-43. (6) Increase due to rationing activities and raising of reserves of motor-spirit; no recoveries of costs made. — (c) Increase due to shortage of staff. (d) Increase due to impressment work, &c. (e) Decline due to routine inspections being curtailed in favour of war work. (/) Number of officers, 25. Travelling-allowances, £615 ; travelling-expenses, £144 ; fares, £358 ; mileage-allowance, £15; car and motor hire, £25. (g) Hospital and ambulance expenses, £3 7s. 6d. ; first-aid siipplios, £2 Bs. 4d.; proportion of firewatching costs, J. Smith's Building, £8 14s. 4d.; 3 lb. glue, ss. 9d.; money-orders, &c, 18s. 3d. : total, £15 14s. 2d.

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