LAND FUND IN PROVINCIAL DISTRICTS, (RETURN OF).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1875 Session I, B-10

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i 1875. NEW ZEALAND.

LAND FUND IN PROVINCIAL DISTRICTS, (RETURN OF).

(Being a Return to an Order of the Souse of Representatives, dated 12th August, 1875.) " That there he laid upon the Table a Return showing the estimated amount of Land Fund to be received within each Provincial District for the period from Ist November, 1875, to 30th June, 1876; together with the estimated amount to be raised in aid by the issue of Treasury Bills, under the provisions of section 17 of the Abolition of Provinces Act. Also, the estimated amount for each Provincial District chargeable against the Land Fund by subsections 1, 2, and 3of section 16 of the said Act; together with the estimated amount for Departmental Services for local Public Works and Education proposed to be charged against the Land Fund by the Financial Statement. The balance between these estimated receipts and charges to be struck, and the sum shown which will be available for the purposes mentioned in subsections 1 and 2 of section 18 of the said Act."— {Mr. Wood.)

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RETURN showing the estimated amount of LAND FUND to be received within each Provincial District, for the period from 1st November, 1875, to 30th June, 1876, &c.

Auckland. Taranaki. Wellington. Hawke'sBay. Nelson. Marlboro'. Canterbury. Westland. Otago. Total. t3 4-' £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ c o 1 § I Receipts for Eight Months: — Revenue, — Land Fund, &c. Gold Fields Revenue and Duty... Railway Receipts In Aid from Treasury Bills Total Receipts for Eight Months 54,801 8,000 24,133 27.S 63 'S 2.974 21,201 16,344 13,467 4,666 5,700 500 2,933 461,758 107,376 12,070 9,800 7,400 271,828 13.334 66,666 1,024,239 174,042 39,132 86,934 27>5 63 34.477 569,'34 29,270 351,828 1,282,514 152.974 21,201 9.133 Charges for Eight Months: — Interest and Sinking Fund... ... Surveys and General Administration of Waste Lands ... Road Boards Railways —Working Expenses Education 39,99i 6,800 9,116 2,863 5.826 796 12,981 64,928 5,574 8,59i 3,3oo 334 6,533 5,200 2,225 4,408 i,353 1,218 55,388 24,660 6.759 96.574 3'.270 10,111 3,6i3 934 85,674 60,446 5,334 47,430 39,683 226,540 176,126 32,290 144,004 103, 569 8,000 484 7,100 4,O33 6,640 i>587 4,772 .I Total Charges for Eight Months 63.907 9,969 90.583 16,258 20, 598 8,566 214,651 19.430 238,567 682,529 a Balances: — Available for purposes mentioned in sub-section 2 of Section 18 of the Abolition of Provinces Bill (a) Available for Public Works on Gold Fields ... 554,884 45. 101 15.027 8,000 17,594 62,391 4.943 412 13.467 67 500 354,483 40 9,800 99,927 13.334 Total (S) ... 23,027 17,594 62,391 4,943 13.879 567 354.483 9,840 113,261 599.985 3 Note.— The amount required to be expended for " Departmental Services for Local Public Works " depends upon the works to be entered upon, and until that question is determined the amount payable for Departmental Services cannot be ascertained. («) These balances are not liable to any charges under subsection 1 of section 18. The expenditure to be incurred for Immigration it is proposed to charge to the Immigration and Public Works Loan, and that for Charitable Aid to the Consolidated Revenue. (See Estimates.) (*) These totals do not show the whole sums available for Local Public Works, but only that part of the sums available which arises out of the operations on the Land Fund. The balances above shown will be augmented by any increase in the estimated Land Revenue, and will be further enlarged by the contributions from the Consolidated Fund, amounting to £110,000 for the year.