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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1947

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH—continued

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\ (a) This Subdivision now includes provision for running expenses of three War Research Branches previously met from War Expenses Account, and for establishment of a Biometrics Section. Details are : 1945-46. Estimated, Recoveries, 1946-47. 1946-47. Estimated. Expended. Recovered. £ £ £ £ £ Grants .. .. .. .. 28,366 587 32,250 30,857 413 Biometric Section .. .. .. 2,485 .. Information Bureau .. .. 6,597 250 6,265 7,182 454 Research Scholarships .. .. 1,800 .. 5 . .. Miscellaneous .. .. .. 600 300 275 119 53 Scientific Liaison Services .. .. 5,105 .. 5,281 4,761 Defence Development Section .. 21,100 21,000 1 Radio Development Laboratory .. 9,726 2,000 I lonosphere Research Section .. .. 7,372 .. V Under War Expenses Account. Miscellaneous war projects (carryover of expenditure from 1945-46) .. .. 21,000 .. J £104,151 £24,137 £44,076 £42,949 £920 {b) Expenses of two delegates to Empire Scientific Conference in London. {c) Expenses of Scientific Liaison Officers in London, Washington, and Melbourne, £1,250; and of return of two engineers who have been engaged upon war research in London, £5OO.

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