of this was not paid reducing it to £3755-11-7 making a difference of £1385-17-11, which had already been paid to us by Curling up to the 11th. June, and thereby upsetting my anticipation of how our account at the Bank would stand on the 30th. June. Another thing also must be taken into consideration - if you recollect I gave you a memorandum showing expected receipts by the 30th. June to about £8000. Included however in this was £600 for austoms and £2000 for the leasing of the Plains. Until I gave you that memo. I was not aware that the Customs had been stopped and the leasing realized £242, short of £2000 so that this reduced the £8000 to about £7158 (irrespective of the error for Land Revenue.) Nowithstanding this however our account would have been clear, with between £300 or £400 to cerdit. Our Banking a/c stood on the 20th. June £6676-15-4. Added to this was expenditure up to the 30th. of £1002-18-4 making a total of £7679-14-8 expended. The receipts between the above dates amounted to £6529-5-6. It should have been £6833-3-6 (which would have covered the debt on the 20th. June) but £103-18 was not paid until after the 30th. and £90 Balance due on a Turiroa section remains unpaid. The result of all this is that our account stood thus on the 30th. - Land Purchase a/c £4202-1- Ordinary Current a/c £3088-3-4 leaving us in Debt in both accounts £1113-17-8. On the 2nd. I reduced the Land purchase by paying £1500 out of the Ordinary a/c to its credit, leaving £1588-3-4 to meet the current expenditure. Since this £113-18 for Publicans Fee etc. has been added, together with £463-7- from Curking for Land sold at Potutu and Prangahau. Also I have received £847-7-9 for customs for June - quite a godsend for the demands upon the Chest are pretty heavy. Weber took £810 for Public Works and £100 for surveys. I have impressed upon him the absolute necessity of reducing his expenditure as much as possible during the next three months. Potutu and Porangahau have sold below our expectations