said the total estimate for the Labour Department for coming six months was £7,300 which was based altogether on the expenditure of the last half-year.
Particulars were as follows:—
First of all Labour Department proper: salaries £514, minister's salary £250, stationery and postage £120, office rent etc. £60, Extra expense £300—making £1,244. In Boycott Department there were organisers' salaries £1,794, clerks, typists, and messengers for the five offices £689, Volunteer boycott patrol in Dublin £819, advertisements £650. Then there was provision in here for £1,500 for a permanent trade exhibition in Dublin which he thought should be struck out as it had been since taken over by Trade and Commerce Department. Stationery and Postage £260 and sundry expenses of £344 making a total of £6,056 which would make in all a total of £7,300.
He would ask that the item £1,500 be struck out which would leave his estimate £5,800. At the time the estimate was made out he was not in a position to find out if that item was included by the Minister of Trade and Commerce.