DOMINION FINANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 24, 28 January 1921, Page 2

DOMINION FINANCE.

LAST QUARTER'S FIGURES. NEARLY £800,000 T-r-CEIVETJ. TREASURY lULLS RJ-DEE-V-BD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) VVu-LLrNGTON, Thursday. Tlie public accounts for the December quarter were published in to-night's "liazette." Following is a sTtmraary of the re- E ceipts into the Consolidated Fund: — * £ f I' 1010. 1020. '\ Balance at October 1 13,033,058 17,501,17!) Ordinary Revenue -- 1 Customs 1,22G.?.5.*! 2,201.357 \ Sti'.mp and death ( duties 850,52.1 1,024.780 , Tost and telegraph 546.RR0 750.055 l I-lr.d tax 1,407.111)7 1.522.215 "> Income tax 51.210 131.7U1 < Boer duty 02,401 01,174 Railways 1,481.070 1,-I*7,luS Uegirttration and * other fees 36,485 37.20(1 I Marine 10,126 14,3:.C.) , Miscellaneous .... 335,171 201,57s ' Totals £0,077.707 £".500,U44 I Refiin. 1 from Nanru . account ... — 000,000 _ Treasury bills issued — 250,000 1 Other receipts :15,75.1 :"5.3(« , Totals £111,152.436 £26.240,126 ' ) The expenditure during the quarter ] amounted to .-3.404,371 in res-poet ot • pcrmanetit appropriations, compared : with £3,204,081) in the I>ccembcr quarter of 1010; and-to .t4,375.001 in respect j oi annual appropriations, compared f with £3,17'2,9;10 last year. f The balances in the fund have been i rodi-ced by over £13,000,000 by Uie t transfer of € 12.240,250 to tbe Dts- ' charged Soldiers' Settlp-tient Fimtl Ay- ' count, and of .'-■ 1,200.000 to the London .' Reserve Fund Account. In addition, t Ti-eaaary Bills for .-bOO.(KH) have been I redeemed. 1 The balance of the fund at December ! 31 was, therefore, ,i_4..';ti:j,,'>DS, compared with £12.774.417 at December 31, 111111. ' The account of the Public Works Fund < shows that at the beginning of the 1 December quarter there was a balance of : £v112,!M5. Receipts during the quarter - amounted to £1,372,700, including ' -11.050,000 raited by the issue of (icben- ' tures. The chief items of expenditure i during the December quarters of 1010 I and ID2O compare as follow: - : 1 ' 1 mm. W2O. • £ -" 1 Departmental :«i.'_'l7 51.310 Railway construction... 1*1(1,07:1 3-13.107 I Public buildings 130.7ns l'i)0-'i I Roads, bridges, etc 54.111 125 240 i Telegraph extension 57.70s :»t; ,st;s Irrigation s,(i;j- 10.141 ' Plant aud materia. 17.7-0 41>,0_4 5 The outsUndirg Treasury Hills for , £-100,000 issued in the September quarter of 19_0 have been redeemed. !