DOMINION FINANCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13393, 29 May 1914, Page 7

DOMINION FINANCE.

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, last night. The following statement of the receipts and expenditure of tho Consolidated Fund for the quarter ended 31st March is published m the Gazette tonight, the figures for 1913 being given within parenthesis, and shillings and pence being omitted : —

Receipts: Balance at beginning of qulanter, ££T5,650 ; ordinary revenue, ±"5,827,174 ; ' territorial revenue, £83,---32 3; miscellaneous, £4862 ; total £4,488,011. Tot**! revenue for corresponding quarter 'of 1913, £4,515,000. Expenditure): Permanent appropriations, £1,022,318; annual appropriations, £2,413,787 • trajisferred to Public Works fund, £625,000 ; balance at end of quarter, £426,905 ; total £4,488,011. Balance at end of March quarter, 1913, £709,508.

'treasury bills outstanding at beginning of quarter, £503,000 treasury bills issued during the quarter, £3C0,C00 ; Treasury bills redeemed during the quarter, £803,000. ''\ A comparative statement of details of ordinary revenue compared with the March quarter, 1913, are : — 1914, Customs £970,434; 1913, £957,353; stamps £365,081, (£275,373) : post ancl 'telegraphs £301,343 (£322,582) ; land tax £67,732 (£76,435); income tax £529,924 (£4444051; beer duty £37,008 (£33,---935); railways £1,302,746 (£1,165,964) ; re'eistration and "other fees £35,400 (£28.871); marine £16,640 (£15,109) ; miscellaneous £200,860 (£156,501); totals £3,827.174 (£3,476,233).

Expenditure.-^Details of Annual Ap? propria.tions'. — L-egdsJature Departments £12,100 (£6942); Department of Finance £35.977 (£23,212); Post and Telegraph Department £497,694 (£489,398); Working Railways Department £880,100 (£915,507) ;.. public buildings, domains, and maintenance of roads £46,291 (£48,---80 3): Native ' Department £6894 (£7554^: Justice Department £133,240 (£130.6(38) ; Mines Department £8175 (£8183); Department of Internal .Affairs £197,949 (£83,619); Defence "Department ±uu2,283 (£152,779); Customs, Marine, and Harbors, and Inspection of Machinery Department £42,454 (£36,576) ; Department of Labor ift6lo (£7032) : Department of Lands and Survey £60,237 (£66,925) ; Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce £62,143 (£60,940) ; Education Department £317,549 (£298,281); services not provided for £3428 (£1660) ; totals £2,413,787 (£2.338,055).