Rate charged up to the Wheat Scheme. We will of course keep separate accounts and when bulk storage merge into a general scheme of bulk handling involving special financial arrangements, the necessary financial adjustments can be made. You will notice also on the same file that the Under Secretary for Works received an instruction from Mr . Key as follows— In connection with our conversation of this afternoon , I beg to confirm the arrangements made whereby the Scheme will, on application, provide both the necessary expenses in connection with Mr .Pearse's salary, during his visit to the Eastern State on Wheat Scheme matters, and the preliminary expenses for surveying the silo sites up to with respect to the latter work, the £250 authorised by Cabinet. Did you know of this?.— We are having an argument now as to whether it is to be a Government charge or a charge against the Scheme. 1475. Then has not Mr .Pearse been paid in accordance with the arrangements made in March last?— We have advanced his travelling allowances from time to time from the Scheme's account. It is all subject to whether adjustment is decided on by Cabinet and the board . 1476 And has not his salary been paid by the Scheme?— Not yet; only the travelling allowance.

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