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Return showing the Cost of Erection of the New Zealand Coastal Lighthouses.

Return showing the Fees, &c., received under the Shipping and Seamen's Acts, the Merchant Shipping Act, the Sea-fisheries Acts, the Inspection of Machinery Acts, and for Pilotage and Port Charges &c., during the Year ended 31st March, 1899.

Return showing the Amount of Light-dues collected during the Year ended 31st March, 1899.

Return showing the Amount of Pilotage, Port Charges, &c., collected during the Year ended 31st March, 1899.

Name of Lighthouse. Cost of Erection. Pencarrow Head Nelson Tiri-Tiri .. Mana Island* Taiaroa Head Godley Head Dog Island Farewell Spit Nugget Point Cape Campbell Manukau Head Cape Foulwind Brothers Portland Island Moeraki Centre Island Puysegur Point Cape Maria van Diemen Akaroa Head Cape Saunders Cape Egmontt Moko Hinou Waipapapa Point Ponui Passage} Kaipara Head French Pass Cuvier Island Stephens Island Cape Palliser Cost of telegraph cable to Tiri-Tiri Miscellaneous and unallocated £ s. d. 6,422 0 i 2,824 8 9 5,747 7 2 5,513 0 1 4,923 14 11 4,705 16 4 10,480 12 8 6,139 11 8 6,597 3 7 5,619 2 6 4,975 2 4 6,955 9 1 6,241 0 0 6,554 14 5 4,288 13 2 5,785 19 0 9,958 19 5 7,028 14 8 7,150 6 5 6,066 6 3 3,353 17 11 8,186 5 0 5,969 18 11 5,571 8 0 1,427 17 5 7,406 16 11 9,349 9 11 6,243 16 1 1,085 19 6 1,322 2 2 Total .. £173,895 14 7 * Light discontinued; moved to Cape Bgm< t Cost of iron tower, lantern, and apparai noved from Mana Island, is not included in i J Built by Provincial Government of A :nown in Marine Department. out. bus, which were rethis. .uckland; cost not

Nature of Receipts. Ainount. Shipping and Seamen's Acts :—■ Fees for shipping and discharge of seamen, and sale of forms Survey of steamers Measurement of ships Examination of masters, mates, and engineers Light-dues Merchant Shipping Act Pilotage and port charges Sundry receipts under Harbours Acts Sea-fisheries Act Inspection of Machinery Acts Sundries £ s. d. 1,851 5 2 1,402 10 0 25 0 0 216 5 0 19,382 16 4 71 16 0 2,664 16 6 203 14 0 477 7 0 3,904 17 0 130 2 6 Total .. .. £ 30,330 9 6

Port. Amount collected. Auckland Onehunga Whangarei Whangaroa Russell Mongonui Hokianga Kaipara Thames Goromandel Tauranga Poverty Bay Napier New Plymouth Waitara Wanganui Patea Wellington Wairau Pieton Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Bluff and Invercargill £ s. d. 5,661 11 9 108 14 0 82 2 7 5 9 7 34 18 2 2 17 1 7 14 5 90 17 3 94 19 5 23 5 8 22 16 5 390 13 5 490 8 9 154 14 9 39 4 9 106 13 9 6 15 7 5,528 0 9 12 7 11 242 3 0 323 4 5 415 12 2 164 7 7 1 11 2 1,707 19 3 331 10 7 76 4 1 1,517 5 8 1,738 12 5 Total £19,382 16 4

Name of Port. Pilotage. Port Charges, &c. Total. Auckland* Onehunga Hokianga Kaipara Thames* Gisborne* Wairoa* Napier* New Plymouth* Waitara* Wanganui* Patea* Poxton Wellington* .. Wairau Nelson Hokitika* Lyttelton* Timaru* Oamaru* Dunedin* Invercargill* .. Bluff* Biverton* £ s. a. 366 10 9 7 18 5 32 13 4 82 7 0 84 4 0 90 14 3 96 5 0 581 1 5 54 1 7 79 1 3 456 9 9 26 19 8 147 7 1 172 19 10 124 11 4 815 15 5 £ s. d. 2,972 12 4 122 17 3 762*15 5 804 15 7 2 10 0 2,961 14 2 116 18 8 76 7 5 4 13 0 £ s. d. 3,339 3 1 130 15 8. 32 13 4 845 2 5 84 4 0 895 9 10 98 15 0 3,542 15 7 171 0 3 155 8 8 456 9 9 31 12 8 147 7 1 7,875 11 6 .124 11 4 1,384 6 8 13 8 9 7,142 15 6 2,808 6 4 1,445 17 4 8,786 10 8 13 3 2 4,003 12 2 4 16 0 7,702*11 8 3,869 3 8 708 15 0 568 11 3 fl3 8 9 3,273 11 10 2,099 11 4 fl,445 17 4 3,871 17 11 13 3 2 1,211 17 0 4 16 0 4,914 12 9 2,79115 2 Totals .. 15,503 6 8 28,030 10 1 43,533 16 9 * Harbour Boai ■d revenue. t Tonnage rate on cargo.