THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 33, 2 November 1917, Page 4

THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

TIIE SEPTEMRER. QUARTER'S RETURNS.

The statement of receipts and expenditure of the Consolidated Fund for the September quarter, which appears in yesterday's Gazette, indicate? a falling off in revenue of a little under ,£200,000, while' the expenditure under permanent and annual appropriations has decreased by JC157.389. A special sum of .£128,362 for purchase of wheat, however, appears in the expenditure .for the 1917 quarter, and this, added to the total, leave 1 ) the total expenditure some »£GO t OOO below that of the corresponding quarter for 191 G. The principal items of revenue for the 1016-1917 quarters lespeotively are as folloW: ~ 1916. 1917. £ •« Customs J,0i:>»983 S-14,496 sl ';™ t L a ! d . . d !".!! 1 «B.«b mm Post ami telegraph ... 393,9,9 *15,300 n ppr ,i„t v +2,4(9 'W.O.in ®XS y .:: i,102,812 M The total' ordinary revnue for Uie quarter amounts to as against .£3,177,029 last year. The total expenditure under permanent and annual appropriations was .£3,101,389, as against ,C 3 288,978 for the corresponding quarter of 191 G. Interest and Sinking fund shows an increase from .£4G3,40;i to .£008,4.>3, and war pensions an increase from ,£39.237 to .£105.383. The statement of receipts and expenditure under the War Expenses Account shows that some J10,449,000 of J™" tnonevs was -eceived during ihe quarter. The expenditure for war purposes was .£2.914,785, as. ogninst for tho corresponding quarter of 191b. lie balance to credit at the end rj'J.V.nf" ler represented l>y_ cash m Me P"M° Account, imprests in the hands of omeers of the Government here ami in London, and Investment Account totalled ,£11,858,412. At the end of Sentemwr, ,1916, the balance in hand was .£3,718,ba.i.