PUBLIC WORKS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10965, 29 July 1921, Page 6

PUBLIC WORKS

RECEIPTS AND .EXPENDITURE!. A COMPARATIVE' STATEMENT. A statement of the receipts and. expenditure of the Public Works Fund, gazetted yesterday, shows that the balance in hand at the beginning of the present financial year was ,£489,489, as against £-219,501 at the beginning of 1920-21; while the receipts {.including £200,000 from Treasury bills) totalled £983,452, making a grand total 'of £1,412,941, against £623.449 for the first quarter of last year. Tho 1921 expenditure side of the account (shillings and pence omitted) compares as follows, the figures for the corresponding period .of last year being given in parenthesis : Public works, (!<■ pa.rlmental, . £40,931 (£32,977). ) Rlilwavs—fconstfiruletsion and. additions to open lines. £297,929 (£107,223). Publdo buildings, £31,297 (£89,123). Lighthouses, harbour works, and harbour defences, £3939 (£47,9). Tonrisfc and health resorts, £3123 (£3981). Immigration, £87,494 (cr. £25,939). Construction, maintenance and supervision of roads, bridges amd other public works, £84,991 (£40,664). Development of mining, £1139 (£1611). Telegraph extension, £49,404 (or. £2615). Contingent defence. £1894 (£3423). Lands improvement. £985 (£1,068). Irrigation and water supply, £5655 (£2729). Plant, material and stores, £51,638 (£5166). Services not provided for, June, 1920 (£166). Totals, £680,726 (£260,060). Balance at end of quarter— Cash in the public account, £34,662 (£13,436). imprests outstanding— In the hands of officers of the Government, £385,391 (,£348,499). In London, £312,161 (£1452); total, *£732,214.

Totals," £1,412,941 (£623,449). •Against this Treasury bills amounting to £200,000 are outstanding (£363,388). '■