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Item.
4.
From "Mobilization Stores"
Vote.
(Head 6 C sub-head 13).
Anti-gas equipment
(a) For Essential Services
Respirators
Protective clothing
Total
Estimate. Expenditure 1939.
236,000 70,000
420,000 10,000
(b) For civilian population
1.400.000 ---
Total
2,056,000
80,000
Protection against high
explosive and incendiary
bombs.
Sandbags
Fire fighting appliances
Plant
Total
General Expenses.
1,000,000 50,000
274,000 120,000
3.000
1,274,000
173,000
Sirens
12,000
Medical stores
Unspecified stores
20,000
10,000
Total
1.000.000
42.000
4,330,000
295,000
From moneys to be voted
under Head 6 c.
Grants in aid to public
utilities for protective works
1,000,000
30,000
5,330,000
325,000
Provision actually made
250,000
Deficit
75,000
The amount provided under Public Works Extraordinary viz.
$200,000 will be expended upon an Air Raid Precautions School
and Store accommodation.
8.
You will observe that the provision made is short
by $75,000 of the amount that would be required, were all the
items in the foregoing category to be fully expended. That,
however, is unlikely to be the case and the individual sum
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