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1895. NEW ZEALAND.

LIABILITIES (ABSTRACT OF, ON 31st MARCH, 1895).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly in compliance with Section 38 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1891."

Audit Office, 20th June, 1895. The Controller and Auditor-General has the honour to submit to the House of Representatives the Abstract of Liabilities on the 31st March last, in compliance with the 38th section of "The Public Eevenues Act, 1891." The Honourable the Speaker of the James Edward FitzGerald, House of Eepresentatives. Controller and Auditor-General.

Summary of the Liabilities of the Government of New Zealand on the 31st March, 1895, prepared by the Audit from the Returns of the several Departments, in accordance with the 38th Section of "The Public Revenues Act, 1891."

Class. Department. Ami rant. Consolidated Fund—Permanent Chaeges. £ s. d. £ s. d. Colonial Secretary—Civil Service Act Colonial Treasurer —Subsidies to local bodies " The Land Act, 1892 " 9 959 2,553 4 6 3 10 2 1 3,521 10 5 10 13 0 2,689 17 9 I. II. III. Legislative—House of Eepresentatives Colonial Secretary'—Miscellaneous ... Colonial Treasurer —Miscellaneous „ Land- and Income-Tax 184 4 150 0 7 0 IV. 334 4 7 Minister of Justice —Miscellaneous ... „ Prisons 2,943 19 0 6 0 2 2,962 6 2 19,460 0 0 V. VI. Postmaster-General —Miscellaneous Commissioner of Customs —Miscellaneous „ Marine 722 4 10 2,535 0 0 VII. rax Commissioner of Stamps—Miscellaneous Minister of Education —Lunacy, &c. „ Labour 3,257 4 10 282 17 0 2,281 7 52 1 3 4 IX. 2,333 8 7 Minister of Mines—Geological „ Miscellaneous ... 7 50 7 0 4 0 57 7 i 1,936 10 7 61,912 6 2 413 12 3 1,000 0 0 6,535 0 0 X. XI. XII. cm. xv. Minister of Agriculture —Miscellaneous ... Minister for Railways —Miscellaneous Minister for Public Works —Public Buildings, &c. Minister of Defence—Capitation Minister of Lands —Miscellaneous Total Consolidated Fund ... £106,706 18 8