THE COLONY'S ACCOUNTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 116, 17 May 1907, Page 2

THE COLONY'S ACCOUNTS.

DETAILS OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. -THE PAST YEAR'S RECORD. This week's Gazette contains a full statement of tho receipts and expenditure of the colony for the year ended 31st March, and the figures for the previous financial year. Following are the principal items (excluding shillings and pence), the figures for 1905-6 being given iv parentheses: — RECEIPTS. Balance at beginning of year — Cash in the public account, £1,405,531 (£1,278,053); advances in the hands of officers of the Government, in the colony £37,749, (£24,161), in London £43,828 (£59,951) : total (deducting £700,000 Treasury bills outstanding), £788.794 (£761,036). Ordinary revenue^— Customs, £2,941,039 (£2,697 ''10) ; stamps, including Postal and Telegraph cash receipts, £1,365,727 (£l,201,262); land-tax, £477,342 (£385,755); income-tax, .3277,866 (£261,815); beer daty, £107,582 (£98,134); railways, £2,621,396 (£2,338,418); registration and other fees, £119,444 (£108,222) ; marine, £40,891 (£36,738); miscellaneous, £226,884 (£195,810): total, £8,148,174 (7,323,570). Territorial revenue — Cush land sales, £37,308 (£32,406) ; deferred payment land sales, £2461 (£5440) ; pastoral runs, etc. , £211,129 (£222,942): total, £250,900 (£260,789). Receipts in aid — Debentures issued for increases of sinking fund, £66,000 (65,. 000); recoveries, £13,881 (£739): total, £9,267,751 (£8,411,134). EXPENDITURE. i Permanent appropriations — Civil list, £37,543 (£38,942) ; interest and sinking J fund, £2,132,142 (£2,087,204); under' special Acts, £319;721 (£310,923) ; sub- j simes to local bodies, £83,777 (£80,662) ; amounts paid over to local bodie^ and to | deposit accounts (payments under the Land Acte), £24,834 (£32,418) ; payments I I under the Timber and Flax Royalties i ! Act, £18,336 (£6494). Endowments— i New Plymouth Harbour Board, £3618 (£3076) ; Greymouth Harbour Board, £15,256 (£13,973) ; Westport Harbour Board, £49,065 (£42,448); old-age pen sious, £313,825 (£253,962). total, £2,998,169 (£2,870,107). Annual appropriations — Legislative departments, £20,894 (£25,094) ; Colonial Treasurer's Department, £43,779 (£40,488); Post and Telegraph Department, £617,268 (£576,809) ; Industries and Touiht Departments, £44,004 (£68,131) ; Old-age Pensions Department, £5,250 (£4758); Working Railways Department, £1,849,456 (£1,594,919); Public Buildings, Domains, and Roads, £58,573 (£26,880); Piintiiig and Stationery Department, £42,954 (£43,846); Stamp and Deeds Department, £34,0u0 (£30,731); Native Department, £21,210 (£13,754); Justice Department, £141,465 (£133,118); Police Department, £146,062 (£loo,406); Mines Department, £34,814 (£23,314); Colonial Secretary's Department, £164,747 (£112.738); Crown Law Department, £3026 (£2913) ; Defence De. partment, £152,764 (£159,459); Ct ;- toms Department, £48,921 (£47,127); Marine and Harbours and Inspection of Machinery Departments, £61,699 (£57,837); Department of Labour, £16.249 (£l% 213) ; Department of Lands and Survey £165,559 (£177,626) ; Department of Agriculture, £125,408 (£115,815) ; Valuation Department, £30,171 (£30,272); Education Department, £785,983 (£69 1, 9uo) ; Public Health Department, £26,276 (£23,215); Mental Hospitals and Chni table Aid Department, £91,398 (£89,878); services not provided for £4489 (£7920) : total, £4,736,805. Transferred to Pubilc Works Fund, £775,000. Balance at end of year — Cash in the Public Account, £1,215,517 (£l,405,531); advances in the hands of officers of the Government — m the colony, £16,993 (£37,749) } in London, £29,993 1 (£43,828) ; on account of Imperial pensions, £563 ; on account of other Govornments, £4757 ; total, £1,267,825 (£l,430,794) ; less Treasury bills outstanding, £717,825 (£788,794) ; grand total, £9,267,751 (£8,411,134). PUBLIC WORiKS FUND. j Receipts — Balance at the beginning of year, £492,290, including cash in pnbhc account, £428,019 (£861,670) ; Loan Act, 1901, '£1000 (£15,500) ; Loan Act, 1902, £669,404 ; Loan Act, 1905, £191226 (£817,913) ;Loan Act, 1906, £948,490 ; Native Land Purchases Act, debonturos lonewed, £125,000 ; special receipts, £1559 (£1631); transferred from Consolidated Fund, £'< 75,000 (£500,000) ; total, £3,204,079 (£2,503,852). Expendituio. — Annual appropriations — Public works : Departmental, £16,710 (£13,516); railways, £\,227,834 (£l,012,403}; utilisation of water power, £4663 (£2901) ; public buildings, £226,917 (£160,214); lighthouses, harbour works, and harbour dofenecs, £4503 (£4946) ; tourist and health resorts, £42,270 (£15,438); immigration, £14,352 (£8753); roads, £347,469 (£352,187); dovelopmenb of golclfields, £11,064 (£18,532) ; purchase of native lands, ! £9135 (£10,763) ; telegraph • oxtension, £114,068 (£77,186) ; rates on native lands, £695 (£547) ; contingent defenco, £14,873 (£35,568) ; lands improvement, £5605 (£1051); total, £2,040,164 (£l,714,012); debentures renewed, Loan Act, 1901, £1000, (£15,300) ; debentures renewed, Loan Act, 1902, £657,000, redeemed, £10,000; Native Land Purchase Act, debentures renewed, £125,000; cost of raising loans, £10,659 (£23,653) ; balance at end of year, £359,399 (£492,298); total, £3,204,079 (£2,503,84fe). The Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Account showed a balance at the end of the year of £12,074. Ihe amount appropriated for the work was £35,957.