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Table No. 6. STATEMENT showing the Total Ways and Means of the Public Works Fund and the Total Net Expenditure to the 31st March, 1904.

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WAYS AND MEANS. NET EXPENDITURE. Expenditure on — Immigration Publio Works, Departmental Railways, including Surveys of New Lines Roads Land Purchases Development of Goldfields .. .. Telegraph Extension Public Buildings Lighthouses, Harbour Works and Defences Contingent Defence Rates on Native Lands.. Thermal Springs Tourist and Health Resorts Lands Improvement Charges and Expenses of raising Loans Coal-mines Interest and Sinking Fund Payment to Midland Railway Bondholders Loans :— Immigration and Public Works Loan, 1870 Immigration and Public Works Loan, 1873 Immigration and Public Works Loan, 1874 General Purposes Loan Act, 1873 New Zealand Loan Act, 1876 New Zealand Loan Act, 1877 New Zealand Loan Act, 1879 New Zealand Loan Act, 1882 New Zealand Colonial Inscribed Stock Loan Act, 1882 North Island Main Trunk Railway Loan Act, 1882 .. New Zealand Loan Act, 1884 .. .. New Zealand Loan Act, 1886 District Railways Purchasing Acts, 1885 and 1886 .. New Zealand Loan Act, 1888 Native Land Purchase Act, 1892 Lands Improvement arid Native Lands Acquisition Act, 1894 Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Acts Temporary Advances on Security of Short-dated Debentures Midland Railway Petitions Settlement Acts, 1902-3 £ s. d. £ s. d. 4,000,000 0 0 2,000,000 0 0 4,000,000 0 0 750,000 0 0 750,000 0 0 I 2,200,000 0 0 5,000,000 0 0 I 3,000,000 0 0 i 250,000 0 0 1,000,000 0 0 1,500,000 0 0 1,325,000 0 0 479,487 7 11 1,000,000 0 0 149,700 0 0 £ s. a. £ s. d. 2,147,993 14 3 507,125 11 7 20,063,959 16 1 6,610,089 18 0 2,004,365 6 11 742,169 15 3 1,053,692 9 6 3,068,896 5 0 1,002,216 4 5 772,563 4 7 65,934 2 6 14,599 13 2 [ 37,851 19 6 6,109 1 i 1,238,304 4 3 10,835 8 0 218,500 0 0 150,000 0 0 £ s. d. 500,000 0 0 7,033,979 3 0 i 39,715,206 14 4 300,000 0 0 150,000 0 0 35,388,166 10 11 Receipts in Aid: — Amount transferred from Consolidated Fund Contributions of Canterbury Province for Railways.. Stamp Duties to 31st December, 1876 Transfer from Confiscated Lands Liabilities Account Proceeds of Railway Material handed over to Cook County Council Special Receipts under section 9 of " The Railways Construction Act, 1878 " Special Receipts under the Ellesmere Lake Lands Acts, 1888 and 1893 Special Receipts under " The Railways Authorisation and Management Act, 1891" Special Receipts under " The North Island Main Trunk Railway Loan Application Act, 1886 " Sinking Funds released .. 3,755,000 0 0 56,000 0 0 264,657 16 4 19,963 1 3 4,903 7 4 60,616 3 0 Balance on 31st March, 1904, — Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of the Government Investment Account 32,983 16 8 2,257 1 9 I 320,790 8 4 35,436 16 5 37,575 2 5 17,581 5 0 i 506,819 19 3 4,720,842 10 7 393,802 7 2 £40,109,009 1 6 £40,109,009 1 6 * Has been reduced b . £89.800 received under section 31 of " The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886."