PUBLIC FINANCES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18916, 3 February 1927, Page 9

PUBLIC FINANCES.

FIGURES FOR IWST QUARTER. [SHB r&SBS ftpeial ,j : V | ■ ' ,'fA r <',4j WELLINGTON February 3. The public account! for the qtiirtec " ended December Blst, 1826» appeat in * special Gasette this week:— , 4 ; ■ Revenue. • The total revenue received for the . niae months umount&l to'<siti,i.lilßjS3W»* aa compared with £l4,BW,im received ior the corresponding penoa Jest an increase ol £l,Wrt|twß. IhU la*, crease, however, is largely nominal* Alter allowing for certain iar&e amnuttW received earlier this yew tail pet w» crease in revenue is approntnUtelJ' . £IBO,OOO. ... iL , Apart from these nominal items the principal increases are:—Postal and telegraph, £168,078} "incotae ta*» £70,882; Departmental receipts, £6tf,074. The principal increases are:—Customs, £89,869; stamp and dath duties, £11,504; land tax, £40,190.

Expenditure. 4 The total expendituro for tfo nint month* was:—Permanent £10,623,514; annual appropriation*, £6,098,230 (total, £17,621,744)t M compared with:—Permanent charge*. £9,639,935; and annual appropriation*, £0,964.929, for the corresponding per. iod of last year, an increase or £966,860, made up aa follow* Permanent charges, £938,559; annual appropriations, £33,801. Inc principal item* of increase are: — Under permanent charges:—lnt^r*est, £186,984: Repayment of Publio Debt Act, 1925, £4(55,000; under special Act*, £272,459. Note. —Included in the above increases, however, are payments totalling approximately £690,000, which htyo • , been made earlier this year. *o that th* , jiiis true comparative increase is apprdtftoA 1 Mm atcly £300,000. , Under annual approoriation* *. & lative Departments, £88,e80; ance and repairs to roads, £44,07Aj ; < ><j internal affair*, £23,551; fafetLeOj j l l /j £57,119; CmtonM, £Mw6V'twparfc mpnt of Education, £91,218. _ 1 The principal iricreaitia, aft *■' ■ ' •> Visit fcttd TelfjOTptl 1; £140.987: foaSTO;: C and CoiMnewe. pt* servation. Mm went, £71,818. ..