PUBLIC FINANCE

Otago Witness, Issue 3513, 12 July 1921, Page 37

PUBLIC FINANCE

THE MAY ACCOUNTS. The following is a statement of tlie re. venue and expenditure of the Consolidated Fund for the month of May last compared with the figures for the corresponding month of last year, together with a comparsutive statement of the revenue and expenditure for the first two months of the fin an. oral year: -REVEXI K. • Slav, 1321. Slav, 1920.

Customs +: £ 434.138 658.650 stamp ami death duties Postal and telegraph ... 277,719 285.12ft 160,48 ft 20,86ft Land tax 411.225 28,714 Income tax #55,062 46,790 Beer duty 20,653 28.488 Kailwavs 634.539 522 840 Ivegietration and other f -< s 18.595 18,20!* Marine ... 5,0! »9 3,780 Miscellaneous 22,783 21.074 Territorial 8.037 5,!)Cfi National endow ment revenue 102.481 100 44ft Other receipts 60,054 3,503 Total #61.883,890 £1,744,42® EXPENDITURE. £ £ Permanent charges— Civil List 2,M3 1,705 Interest and sinking fund 1,073,002 866,725. l iider special Acts 170,573 65,36ft Total permanent charges 1.257,681 933,80i Annual iipproprintious Legislative 3,191 2.191 Finance Cr.351,073 8.604 Pest and Telegraph 3 38.442 56,145 Working railways 708,005 4)5,46(1 Cr. 13ft Public -buildings 3.091 Cook Islands ... 1,021 810 2,351 26.00:* Justice 3S.622 Mines 5.155 2.101 Internal, affairs Mental Hospitals and 19,142 10,04.? Public Health ... **« ... 39,863 43,977 Tourist 8,081 4.83ft Defence ... ... 44,922 25.660 Customs and marine 27,567 13,19(1 Labour 266 2,390* Lands and Survey 17,303 20,76ft Valuation and Electoral «,0fi8 6.00ft Agriculture Education 20,694 236,899 Cr. VJ#M 70 172.684 Services net provided for ... Cr. 4,923 96,184 Total annual appropriations 1,025.839 71*2,093 Grand totals of expenditure 2,283,520 1,845,89*