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1882. NEW ZEALAND.

LIABILITIES OF THE SEVERAL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (STATEMENT OF, BY THE AUDIT OFFICE).

Laid on the Table in terms of "The Public Revenues Act, 1880," Section 3.

Memorandum by Mr. EitzGeeald. Audit Office, 25th May, 1882. The Controller and Auditor-General has the honour to submit to the House of Eepresentatives the Abstract of the Liabilities of the Government on the 31st March as rendered by the several departments, in compliance with the 3rd section of " The Public Revenues Act, 1880." The Hon. the Speaker of the James Edwaed EitzGeeald, House of Eepresentatives. Controller and Auditor-General.

I.— Summary of Liabilities of the Colony of New Zealand outstanding on 31st March, 1882, prepared by the Audit Department in terms of Section 3 of "The Public Revenues Act, 1880."

Class. Department. Amount. Consolidated Pund, £ s. d. Colonial Treasurer— Permanent Charges— Interest and Sinking Pund Land Pund Account ... £24,000 0 0 13,383 18 8 Minister for Native Affairs Civil List Legislative— House of Representatives ... Colonial Secretary ... Colonial Treasurer ... „ Property Tax Departments ... 604 5 1 163 0 0 37,383 18 8 168 0 0 I. 25 0 0 14,881 8 2 II. III. IV. 767 5 1 Minister of Justice ... „ Prisons Department 2,270 0 11 1,034 9 5 2,270 1,034 0 11 9 5 3,304 10 4 12,938 11 1 V. VI. Postmaster-General and Commissioner of Telegraphs Commissioner of Customs „ Marine Department ... 730 10 8 1,469 10 3 VII. VIII. IX. Commissioner of Stamps Minister of Education Minister of Native Affairs Minister of Crown Lands 1,731 18 ii 1,005 0 0 2,200 0 11 1,150 0 0 2,340 0 0 X. 2,736 18 11 8,550 6 2 Minister for Mines ... Carried forward 86,445 19 1 ■B. 18.