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STATEMENT of the UNAUTHORIZED EXPENDITURE of the CONSOLIDATED FUND for the FINANCIAL YEAR ended 31st March, 1885.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1884-85.

£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Consolidated Fund. FOE SERVICES NOT PROVIDED FOR. Oedinaey Revenue Account:— Legislative:— Part Salary of Examiner of Standing Orders, from 1st November to 31st December, 1884 Special Allowance to Hansard hands for session of 1884 .. Colonial Secretary:— Amount paid for advertising tenders for printing Sir George Grey's book of Maori Legends Freight on file of papers from Auckland for compilation of Hansard Treasury:— Advance to Public Trustee for payment to grantees under West Coast Settlement Act .. £510 8 6 Less amount recovered .. .. 349 9 0 16 13 4 79 10 0 96 3 4 5 10 3 0 2 6 5 12 9 Balance outstanding in respect of advances for payment' of fees on Native Crown grants, written off .. Allowance to Government Insurance Department on exchanging 5 per cent, deficiency bills for 4J per cent, debentures Interest from 1st January to 5th July, 1884, on moneys borrowed at 5 per cent., on 5 per cent, bonds exchange* for 4 per cent, inscribed stock: — Government Insurance Department .. ..£109,700 £2,810 2 5 Commissioners of Public Debt Sinking Funds .. 50,800 1,301 6 3 General Post Office .. 83,100 2,128 14 7 Nelson Rifle Prize Fund .. 200 5 2 5 Armed Constabulary Reward Fund .. .. 2,000 51 4 8 General Post Office (1st May) .. .. 215,000 3,503 14 0 Public Trustee .. .. 54,200 1,388 8 2 160 19 6 149 7 3 1,775 10 9 £11,248 12 6 Less interest! at 4 per cent, charged to New Zealand Consolidated Stock Act, 1877 .'. .. 8,998 17 11 Justice: — Amount realized from sale of Section No. 260, Picton, sold for non-payment of rates, Sharp and Hodgson Refund of portion of amount realized from sale of liquor ordered to be forfeited, A. McLennan 2,249 14 7 4,335 12 1 20 15 3 50 0 0 70 15 3 Prisons :— Gratuity to Warder Dunn for services rendered Postal and Telegraph:— Defalcations of late Postmaster, Parihaka Additional gratuity to widow of late T. Maloney, Lineman, Mercer Amount paid to Union Steam Shipping Company for conveyance of mails for transhipment to direct service steamers 50 10 9 20 0 0 100 0 0 269 4 8 839 15 5 Customs: — Refund of duty paid on vestas subsequently found worthless Refund of duty on drapery imported by Mr. De Harven as samples of Belgian manufactures 18 15 0 21 15 0 3 0 0 Stamps:— Refund of Native land duty on lease, 10th May, 1883 .. Education: — Rates on University Reserves, Whenuakura, for years 1883-84 and 1884-85, paid to Patea East Road Board.. 100 0 0 31 5 0 f^ n wi r\r[ •ffWnrrfi \*r\ 5,100 18 10 Carnod forward