DOMINION SURPLUS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 3

DOMINION SURPLUS.

—m - — BALANCE OF £1,812,366. REVENUE £381,000 HIGHER. MILLION FOR PUBLIC WORKS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Receipts and expenditure of the Consolidated Fund for the last quarter of the financial year have been gazetted. : A compilation of this and previous statements gives the full year's results, compared with those for" the previous year, as follows:—

A summary of the expenditure is as follows: —■ 1923-24 3022-23 £ £ Permanent chnrgps— Civil List .... • 28,919 25.853 • Interest ami Sinking Knnrt B.S<vl 877 5.5fM.957 Tensions 2,303.938 2.477.070 Other items .. 1.235,819 1.500,539 Totals £12,450,073 f 12,907,304 Annual appropriations— Railway* 3,103,141 4,946,151 Post and Telegraph 2.11R,9.->2 2.112,543 Education .... 2,004,508 2,581,001 Other services 3.520.831 3,710.131 Totals £13.697,432 £13,356,45(5 Grand totals.. £28.145.0U5 £2G,263.7G0 The account shows various transfers to other accounts, including provision for debt redemption and £1.000,000 to the Public Works Fund. The year began with a balance in the account of £5,037,090; at the end of the year the balance was £4,954,712.

I 1923-24. 1022-23 Increase. £ £ £ Revenue .. 27,1)60,371 27,.j79,443 3S0.92S Expenditure 20,14S,003 20,203.760 '110,755 Surplus £1,812,300 £l,313,08S £400,6S3 •Decrease. Details of the revenue are as follow:— 1923-24 1922-23 £ £ Customs 7.2'iS,210 G,032.292 Beer dut> . .. 032,094 012,12S Stamp and death duties .. 3,013,782 3,381.201 Post and telegrapli 2,0S1.2»l 2,70ri,0:!0 "Land ta-s 1.420,462 1,541.r>02 Inr-o:np ta-c 3,7R1..VU l<^1.012 Uailwa.VK 0,054.40!) G,719,«R4 KcRistriition. etc 225.321 J 79.033 Martin- !«|,!I34 50,57:1 Miacpllnneous . . Sdo.SSC I.47S.845 Territorial . . 222.37S 192.180 Kulioual ondoTimoiit . ... — n.t.isn Other rcceiiit-i . . . 009.550 55'.!,005 Totals £27.'J0O,37O £27.579,443