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UNAUTHORIZED EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1942-43.

i'Undeb Section 58 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926.) £ s. d. £ s. <1. £ a. d. £ s. d. CONSOLIDATED FUND. Ordinary Revenue Account. j FOR SERVICES NOT PROVIDED EOR. i Legislative Department:— Allowance granted to Miss B. H. Veitch for extra duties performed .. .. ■ • • • • • 33 6 <8 Allowances and expenses of special Select Committees oi the House of Representatives : Statutes Revision Committee on the Mareo Petition ; Joint Committee on Otaki-Porirua and Papawai-Kaikokirikiri Native Trusts 125 0 0 Grant to J. Smyth, Hansard Reporter, towards meeting the cost of repairs to his motor-car damaged during earthquake whilst he was on fire-watching duties .. 50 0 0 j 208 6 8 Prime Minister's Department: — Purchase of motor-car for High Commissioner, Ottawa. . 42.3 9 5 Railway fares of Mrs. Nash whilst in United States 79 7 7 502 17 0 Treasury Department:— Ex gratia payments to— Mrs. E. D. Brimmer in full satisfaction and discharge of all claims in respect of two £5 Reserve Bank notes partly burnt . . • • • • • ■ ■ ■ 10 0 0 Miss I. Finlayson as compensation for loss of property arising from a fire started by an inmate oi PorirUa Mental Hospital .. •• •• •• 250 0 0 Increase in subsidy to the Government Railways Employees'Sick Benefit Fund .. .. .. 2,000 0 0 Payment towards net cost of operating " The Hermitage," * i Mount Cook 2,910 0 0 Customs Department Compassionate grant to widow of the late J. M O'Reilly, j Collector of Customs, New Plymouth . . .. ■. 308 0 0 Stamp Duties Department :• — Refund of amount equal to duty paid in England in the estate of Philbrick Valentine Smith, deceased . . 58 13 0 Refund of estate duty and succession duty paid in— Estate of Charles Cookham McMillan, deceased .. 8,584 (i 5 Estate of Peter Guthrie Rintoul Tait, deceased .. 30 10 2 Estate of Marion Manifold Watson, deceased _ . . 394 4 4 Refunds of racing taxation on meetings held for patriotic purposes .. •• •• 8,210 14 •> Refund of stamp duty paid on memoranda of transfer .. 6 10 Remission of interest paid in the estates of— , Allen Wiremu Edmund Armstrong, deceased . . 0 15 3 Arthur Nattle Grigg, deceased .. .. ■ ■ 16 5 0 Robert George Thompson, deceased .. .. 12 0 8 Internal Affairs Department: — | Compassionate grant to widow of the late Hon. H. T. Armstrong .. ■■ 1,250 0 0 Cost of State funeral of the late Hon. H. T. Armstrong.. 305 6 4 Grants to Messrs. Lowry and Endean, members of Parlia- j ment, to attend the Empire Parliamentary Conference 499 18 0 Payment to F. T. Sandford to cover fares, England to New Zealand . . .. • • ■ • • • 300 0 0 Purchase of Pompallier House and furniture .. .. 2,023 15 0 _— 4,378 19 4 External Affairs Department: — I Payment of monetary equivalent of annual and retiring leave to widows of deceased officers .. • ■ • • 178 8 1 Marine Department: — Final payment in respect of waiting-room erected on French Pass Wharf .. . • ■ ■ • ■ ■ ■ 87 o 10 Labour Department: — Balance of travelling-expenses, &c., of members of Committee appointed to inquire into circumstances of the Timber Industry . ■ • ■ • ■ ■ • 17 5 7 Payment of monetary equivalent of leave due to estates of deceased officers . . ■ ■ ■ ■ • • 81 13 3 Travelling-allowances, &c.,incurred byA.F. Moncur,M.P., in furtherance of the industrial war effort . . .. 83 8 9 182 7 7 Native Department:— > Amount short-received when cashing salary cheques . . 10 0 I Compassionate grant to widow of the late LieutenantColonel E. te W. Love, killed on active service .. 102 0 0 Salary of Judge Whitehead, appointed a Judge of the Native Land Court from 1st January, 1943 .. 200 0 0 —— 303 0 0 Carried forward .. .. •• 2(5,373 0 7