Expenses.

Hon C. W. C. Marr's

Canberra, June 23.

There was no friendliness in the fol lowing question, asked by Senator Hardy to-day— “What is the total gross expense of the recent trip of the Honorable C. W. C.

Marr to New Guinea and the Mandated Territory?” .

And there was manifest glee in the Government’s answer: “The total cost to the Government of that visit was £188, included in which were the expenses of the official staff.”

The shocked Senator was left to digest the fact that this very unusual Minister apparently paid his own expenses.