Report, 1922-continued.

WALKER, SIR CHARLES, K.C.B.-cont.

that if profits exceeded certain sum payments to them should be reduced 5375-402- -Damage by H.M. ships 5294-5, 5297, 5298-300, 5308-9, 5317-20- -Electricity supply 5732-47-Estimates 123-31, 133-4, 5704-12, 5714, and expenditure 5916-7-Estimating 154, 159, 160-2- Excess expenditure 76-87, 111-5, App. 2-Excess votes 88, 128 Expenditure to 31st March, 1921, remaining to be charged to Navy votes at closing of accounts for 1920-1, App. 24-Extra remuneration 5858-Financial control 5921-2- -Fuel 116-9, 120, 171-5 -Gifts to Dominions 5887-9, 5891-Gratuities for special services 5856-7-Gross accounting 5542-Merchant shipbuilding 5727-9Miscellaneous effective services 170Officers retired for misconduct 5822-Ordnance Factory Production statements 5760-6, 5770, 5778-9

Overpayments to contractors, recoveries, accounting method 5405-16 Retired pay of officers temporarily serving, contributions on account of 5818-21- Reply to Treasury Minute, App. 23Royal Naval Reserves 5718- -Separation allowance and allotment, overpayment 5321-3, 5327-32, 5333, 5334-43— -Shipbuilding, repairs, etc., material 170- Stores at Armament Depôt, stocktaking 5825-7, repayments 5871-3- -Suspense accounts 76, 80-7, 167-8, 169, 5709, 5710-2, 5859-63, 5864-8— Travelling 170- -Trawlers and drifters disposal 5479-89, 5491-3, 5497-8, 5501-4, 5506-33, App. 22-Unvouched expenditure 5349-59, 5537-9--Votes, machinery for keeping machinery within limits 89-94——Works, etc., overlaps 5813, salaries and allowances 5785-8-Writing off powers 5289-93. Orkneys, seawalls, banks and reclamation works 5794-808, 5809Peterhead Harbour 5249-58 Shipping, Ministry of 76, 164.

WALL, ENGINEER ADMIRAL.

Gun-mountings, storage difficulty and deterioration 5958-64.

Wallace Collection.-Appropriation Account, 1919-20, Niemeyer App. 3 (p. 643)Incidental expenses, decrease, Ramsay 3460.

WALLER, M. L., C.B. 3-74, 984-1004, Apps. 1, 10.

Central Association for the Aid of Discharged Convicts 3-8, 18–28, 33–6, 40-5, 54-74, Apps. 1, 10-Criminal lunatics 987-8.

Prisoners, daily average number 984-6-Prisons, App. 1, manufacturing and farm account 989-91.

Waltham Explosives Factory.-Indirect charges, percentage to direct labour, Harris 6856-7--Non-productive expenditure at, correspondence between War Office and Treasury App. 6.

War Bonus.-Niemeyer 2127-37; Ramsay 2517-21 Appropriation Account, 1919-20, Niemeyer App. 3 (p. 637)——Payment of portion out of savings, 3rd Report 19; Niemeyer 2502–17, 2521–8, App. 35– Single vote for reason, Niemeyer 2500.

War Cabinet.-Appropriation Account, 1919-20, Niemeyer App. 3 (p. 641). War Office.-Expenditure remaining to be charged to Navy votes at closing of accounts for 1920-21, Walker App. 24- -Financial control in Iraq, Transfer to Air Ministry, 3rd Report 66; Harris 6255-8, 6264, 6267; Millar 6258-9; Watson 6260-3; Ramsay 6265-7--Staff, reduction, Millar 6128.

War

Report, 1922-continued.

War Schemes, Memoranda.-Publication, Treasury objection on grounds of economy, Niemeyer 2293–300-Treasury Minute App. 4 (p. 649). War Trade Department.-Appropriation Account, 1919-20, Niemeyer App. 3 (p. 637).

WARE, MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FABIAN, K.C.V.O., K.B.E., C.B.

Imperial War Graves Commission 4068–106.

WATSON, A. E., C.B.E.

4775-6

Air Ministry.-Accounting staff 5181- Contracts, advances on 4761, -Excess vote App. 21-Exhibitions 5037-Expenditure on behalf of Russia 5246-Experimental and Research services 5073-4 -Extra remuneration 5170-3--Ration allowance for boys

App. 32- -Virement 5070-6, 5077.

Ordnance Factories 6989, App. 6
Suspense claims 6808.

Army.-Excess expenditure App. 5Store accounting, Iraq 6260-3Bankruptcy Department 717-8-Civil Service assimilation 784Coal Mines Emergency Act 706-Colonial Office, visit of Secretary of State to Egypt and Palestine 848-9Emergency Services 744 -Exchange 4516-8, 6551-Exchequer and Audit Department 773-7, 782-3, 790-1.

Ireland.-County Court Officers etc. 1614-Prisons 1669-75-Public Education 1684-8.

Metropolitan Police Fund 816-Mines and Quarries inspection 798Motor Tax account, 4731, 4733- -National Factories, 6489, disposal 6477-82-National Portrait Gallery 3455-6.

Navy.-Canadian built trawlers and drifters 5591--Committee on Admiralty Accounting Arrangements 5285-6-Electricity supply 5731--Merchant shipbuilding 5721-3-Ordnance Factory production statements 5770, 5772-5, 5776-7--Trawlers and drifters, disposal 5490, 5493-6, 5500.

Pensions, Ministry of.-Recoverable advances 4416-7, 4418.

Post Office.-Common service expenditure 3225-7, 3228, 3231-3Losses, 3162.

Prisons, manufacturing and farm account 991-9.

Scientific and Industrial research 3184-6, 3195.

Scotland.-Law charges and Courts of Law 1906- -National Gallery, extra remuneration to director 1910- -Reformatory and Industrial Schools 1921-Teachers' Superannuation Fund 1925-6, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1938.

Suspense accounts 2270, 2272- -Treasury Minute App. 4- -Virement 967-9, 5262-8-War Office, advances on contracts 4775-6.

Wear River Commissioners.-Loan to, Beharrell 4606.

Welsh Church Commission.-Loan from Civil Contingencies Fund, Niemeyer 2411.

Western Islands and Highlands.-Steamer services, Lamb 1889-90.

Wheat

Report, 1922-continued.

Wheat Commission.-Accounts, difficulty in connection with, Coller 4219 ---Staff and cost, Coller 4219-Treasury Minute, App. (p. 646). Whitehall Cenotaph.-Appropriation Account, 1919-20, Niemeyer, App. 3 (p. 640).

WHITLEY.-Aliens, deportation 802.

WILKINS, ROLAND, C.B. 750-92.

Comptroller and Auditor-General, salary 756-60.

Exchequer and Audit Department.-Appropriations-in-aid 751-3Salaries, wages and allowances 750, 754-5, payment of war bonus out of savings as far as possible 761-4, 770, 779.

Wilson, Sir Wemyss Grant.-Salary as Director of Central Association
for the Aid of Discharged Convicts, Waller 25, 54-5.
Woolwich.-Arsenal: See also Ordnance Factories under Army-
Housing scheme, number of houses, Earle 484, upkeep, increased
cost, Earle 484-7- Locomotive manufacture, 3rd Report 1676;
Harris 191-205, 207-55, 271, 281, App. 7; Niemeyer 278, App. 6
-Work done for Mint, Niemeyer 2334-6; Johnson 2337-8, 2341-2.
Memorial Plaque Factory, Harris 6484-6.

Royal Military Academy: Cost per head, Harris 6743; Millar 6744-
Fees increased, Millar 6743.

Works and Buildings.-Common Works Services under consideration by Sir Alfred Mond's Committee, Millar 5134; Bland 5141.

Wrabness Mining Depot.-Temporary charging of expenditure to Vote 10, Savile 5851-3.

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