±5.-5.

ACCOUNT for the Year ended 31st March, 1900, compared with the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1899.

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1898-99. EXPENDITURE. 1899-1900. £ s. d. 4,555 0 0 1,200 0 0 1,655 0 0 6,000 0 0 350 0 0 128 0 0 5,087 0 0 850 0 0 1,250 0 0 2,000 0 0 330 0 0 6,000 0 0 1,500 0 0 2,800 0 0 4,500 0 0 250 0 0 1,250 0 0 2,990 0 0 3,200 0 0 Grants to — Counties — Ashburton Clifton Eketahuna Hawera Hawke's Bay Hobson Horowhenua Hutt Kiwitea Mackenzie Manawatu Ohinemuri Pahiatua Pohangina Rangitikei Stratford Tuapeka Waipa Waipawa Wairarapa North Wairarapa South Waitemata Wanganui £ s. d. 1,455 0 0 1,084 0 0 400 0 0 1,200 0 0 350 0 0 5,336 0 0 1,300 0 0 £ s. d. 420 0 0 6,000 0 0 4,350 0 0 4,295 0 0 248 0 0 18 0 0 2,000 0 0 624 0 0 3,000 0 0 32,080 0 0 45,895 0 0 100 0 0 816 0 0 300 0 0 1,300 0 0 241 0 0 300 0 0 432 0 0 568 0 0 1,000 0 0 22 0 0 1,162 0 0 Road Boards— Egmont Eketahuna Featherston Fitzherbert Frankley Hunua Kaiti Manawatu Manchester Manganui Mangorei Masterton Mauriceville Moa Ngatapa ... Oakura Parihaka Porangahau Seatoun Spring Creek Takapau Taratahi-Carterton Turanga Upper Hurford Upper Taueru Upper Wangaehu Waimate Waipipi Waitara West Waiwakaiho Wirokino 2,420 0 0 100 0 0 700 0 0 700 0 0 800 0 0 1,080 0 0 435 0 0 3,000 0 0 750 0 0 600 0 0 2,025 0 0 1,790 0 0 3,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 496 0 0 1,920 0 0 50 0 0 700 0 0 30 0 0 1,584 0 0 70 0 0 242 0 0 300 0 0 3,000 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 1,900 0 0 3,000 0 0 50 0 0 65 0 0 21,506 0 0 18,342 0 0 737 0 0 495 0 0 600 0 0 Boroughs— Dannevirke Foxton Feilding Greytown Masterton Petone Te Aroha Timaru 800 0 0 1,600 0 0 500 0 0 700 0 0 2,000 0 0 1,784 0 0 1,900 0 0 1,000 0 0 2,000 0 0 6,732 0 0 . Town Boards— Bull's Ngaruawahia Waipawa 7,384 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 99 0 0 2,360 0 0 600 0 0 Drainage Boards— Aorangi Land Manawatu Land Ngaroto Otakia Sluggish River 500 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 2,859 0 0 River Boards— Clive Lower Wairau Spring Creek 5,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 6,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board 75,428 0 0 16,971 12 3 2,808 7 1 Appropriations,— Vote 119.—Roads to open up Crown lands Balance at end of year,— Cash in the Public Account Advances in hands of Officers of the Government, — In the Colony 6,982 2 4 68,770 0 0 31,363 8 4 1,541 10 1 13,611 2 11 20,593 5 3 4,349 17 2 Totals £96,749 9 5 £120,726 13 7