VALUATION DEPARTMENT. STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1933.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1933 Session I, B-17

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1933. NEW ZEALAND.

VALUATION DEPARTMENT. STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1933.

Laid before Parliament pursuant to Section 59 of the Valuation of Land Act, 1925.

Statement of the Receipts and Payments for the Year ended 31st March, 1933. Dr. Receipts. £ s. d. Cr. Payments. £ g. d. To Fees for valuers'reports, &c. 25,556 15 11 By Salaries .. .. .. 28,083 7 9 Contributions from local au- Advertising, books, newsthorities for preparing and papers, and other publicacorrecting rolls .. .. 10,464 16 4 tions .. .. .. 115 16 11 State Advances Department Assessment Court expenses .. 618 14 4 for agency work .. .. 500 0 0 Pees to valuers .. .. 6,130 2 7 Land - tax Department for Freight, cartage, and transport supplying land-tax rolls .. 11,976 12 7 charges .. .. .. 11 14 4 Salaries of officers while em- Fuel, light, power, and water 20 11 6 ployed by other Depart- Law-costs .. .. .. 43 8 10 ments — Maps (maintenance), tracings, Defence Department .. 8 6 9 schedules of land transacState Advances Depart- tions, &c. .. .. 136 7 4 ment . . .. .. 21 14 5 Maps (purchase) .. .. 545 9 5 Industries and Commerce Office expenses .. .. 172 17 0 Department .. .. 5 2 8 Office fittings and requisites .. 6 15 7 Internal Affairs Department 6 0 4 Payment to Post and TeleState Forest Service .. 414 0 graph Department for Levying and collecting hospital services of officers .. 100 0 0 rates in Taupo and Sounds Postages, telegrams, and rent Counties, and in Waiheke of boxes.. .. .. 499 18 8 Island .. .. .. 170 0 0 Printing and stationery .. 415 16 3 Miscelleneous recoveries .. 11 17 5 Rent .. .. .. 444 13 1 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) 432 9 0 Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. .. 4,906 15 4 Typewriters (repairs) .. 16 10 4 Deposit as security against cost of appeal refunded .. 10 0 0 Balance .. .. .. 6,014 12 2 £48,726 0 5 £48,726 0 5 Valuation Department, Thos. Brook, Valuer-General. Wellington, 22nd May, 1933. Note. —The receipts are £214 16s. Id. less than the figures shown in the Treasury Accounts, being the difference between the amount in the hands of the Post Office on the 31st March, 1932, and 31st March, 1933. I hereby certify that the Statement of Receipts and Payments has been duly examined and compared with the relative books and documents submitted for audit, and correctly states the position as disclosed thereby.—G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.

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