THE COLONY'S FINANCES.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph
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Wellington, May 21.
The public accounts for the year ended March 31st, appear in detail in to-night's Gazette, and, as was announced by the Premier in the course of his speech in Wellington on the 2nd inst., disclose a surplus of £303,905. The leading new points of the accounts now disclosed are that the receipts of the Consolidated Fund for the year amounted to £6,717,924. The permanent appropriations amounted to £2,579,419, and the annual appropriations to £2,634,590. Tho appropriation for interest and Sinking Fund *as £1,900,978, an increase cf £97,038. The special acts of tbe Legislature called for another increase of £74,493. The leading departmental appropria tions were -.—Education, £526,820 ; Lunacy and Charitable Aid, £72,708 ; Railways, £1,354,150 ; Defence, £21,----10 1; Police, £123,698 ; Lands, £129,----443 ; Postmaster-General, £485,860 ; Justice, £136,922. The annual appropriation for the Public Works Depart nnnt amounted to £1,424,484, and there is a balance of £338,565. The balance on the Lauds for Settlement Account is £366,074, the amount paid for the purchase of estates having been £368,----984.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 119, 22 May 1903, Page 4
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