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Head 27.-DEFENCE
Head 27.-DEFENCE
A. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
1 Personal Emoluments
Approved Estimate, 1932.
$
69
Estimate, 1933,
69
$
40,455
46,340
87
Other Charges.
Allowances for Officers and N.C.Os. undergoing Training in
England
3 Ammunition
4 Armoured Car and Motor Machine Gun Section
5 Band allowances...
3,000 13,130
3,000
14,550
(1)
2,500
2,000
1,400
1,000
(2)
6 Books, Stationery, and Printing
7 Camp Expenses.....
850
850
13,300
14,000
(3)
8 Conveyance Allowance to Corps Quartermaster
9 Equipment for the Engineer Company and Signals
180
180
650
900
(4)
10 Equipment Flying Section
300
150
(2)
Equipment and Upkeep of Arms....
3,000
3,000
Fuel and Light
850
900
(5)
3 Grant to Machine Gun Troop
8,500
10,800
(3)
4 Incidental Expenses
600
600
15 Rifle Ranges, Expenses..
1,000
1,000
6 Transport
2,880
3,440
(6)
17 Uniform, including Boots
15,000
15,000
(2)
Uniform for Messengers and Coolies
350
350
Total Other Charges
67,490
69,720
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Special Expenditure.
19 2 Night Firing Boxes, Machine Gun
0 Bar and Strond Range Finder
227 1,237 14,800
14 Vickers Guns and spare parts
2 Armoured Car........................................
32 Motor Cycle Combinations
4 4 D. P. Lewis Guns
56 Sets A. A. Sights and Mountings
66 Bar Foresights Machine Gun
76 Pairs Binoculars Prismatic
8100 Paillasses and Bolster cases
19
Artillery pattern Bar and Stroud Range Finder
0 Switchboards Magneto 10 Line Cordless, 10 Telephones No.
100 and 22 Cells Inert
Saddlery for Mounted Infantry
Improvements to Camps
"C" Trench Set Corps Signals
Gestetner Duplicator
20 Webley Revolvers MK. VI......
Total Special Expenditure
Total Volunteer Defence Corps....
235
1,068 (7) 15,221 (8) 20,000
2,915 (9)
1,306
69
(10)
76
745
(11)
991
1,124
} (12)
1,406
(13)
900 1,500
...
3,620
700 2,020
25,004
45,156
132,949
161,216
(1) Provision of howitzer ammunition, previously obtained
from Army.
(2) Considered sufficient.
(3) Increased strength.
(4) More stores and more replacements necessary.
(5) Increased use of drill hall, lecture room, etc. (6) Mechanisation of battery.
(7) Higher rate of exchange.
(8) Three new guns and one replacement.
Increased strength of Motor Machine Gun Section.
(10) For Anti-aircraft Co.
(11) Only one at present.
(12) None at present.
(13) For W/T set.
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