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Statement showing the Detail of Sums irrecoverable by the Crown, etc. —continued.

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I I Claims abandoned. Department and Particulars. Reason for writing off. Value of Stores. | Cash. Prisons. £ s. d. £ s. d. Value of stores .. .. .. Unfit for consumption, deficient, lost, 326 0 4 stolen, &c. Value of live-stock .. .. .. Loss through death, condemnation, &c. .. 278 13 0 Concrete blocks .. .. • • Loss on sale .. .. .. 59 9 6 Value of wheat .. .. .. Difference between mill and consigned 5 0 6 weights Public Works. Value of hut, stores, &c. .. .. Destroyed by fire . . .. 4,882 3 9 Value of stores, &c. .. . . .. Deterioration and leakage .. .. 317 7 2 Value of live-stock . . .. .. Destroyed .. .. .. .. 46 5 0 Value of stores, tools, and material .. Lost, stolen, broken, &c. .. . . 395 12 6 Value of electrical equipment .. .. Loss on sale.. .. .. .. 2,255 1 4 Blasting-powder .. .. . . Value undercharged .. .. .. 46 18 10 Balance of amount charged to Hokitika Cost of work greatly in excess of estimate. .. 975 0 0 Borough Council on protective works (Council agreed to pay £500) Arrears of rent .. .. .. Unable to collect .. .. .. .. 9 17 9 Sundry debtors .. .. .. Unable to collect .. .. .. .. 8 12 6 Shortages in cash and value of tickets, Te Unable to fix responsibility .. .. .. (i 1 11 Kahu Railways. Value of stores .. .. .. Lost on " Ripple " .. .. 98 4 8 Value of rolling-stock, signalling-apparatus, Lost, broken, and obsolete .. .. 22,934 12 8 and crockery Freight, £79 19s. 9d.; advertising, £37 Is. 6d.; Companies in liquidation, estates bank- .. 132 16 3 and rent, £15 15s. rupt, unknown addresses, and indigent circumstances Repatriation. Office furniture .. .. .. Loss on realization .. .. .. 99 5 5 Value of machinery, plant, &c., at various Loss on realization .. .. .. 1,635 2 7 instructional classes Value of buildings, Ruakura .. .. Loss on disposal to Agriculture Department 3,768 5 4 Value of equipment, Avonhead .. .. Loss on disposal .. .. .. 772 8 7 State Advances. Value of typewriter and table .. .. Lost and allegedly wrongly included in 13 0 0 assets taken over from Labour Department State Advances —Repatriation Branch. Loans granted to discharged soldiers, Re- Defalcations by ex-officers of Repatriation .. 1,182 4 4 patriation Act, 1918 Department Loans granted to discharged soldiers, Re- Losses on realization of securities .. .. 11,259 7 0 patriation Act, 1918 State Advances —Housing Branch. Principal and interest on loans .. .. Losses on realization of securities .. .. 224 8 5 Principal .. .. . • • ■ Cost in excess of contract prices .. .. 13 14 3 State Advances —Settlers Branch. Principal and interest on loans .. .. Losses on realization of securities .. .. 496 2 7 State Advances —Fishing Industry Promotion Branch. Sale of trawler il Swan " .. .. Loss on realization .. .. .. .. 0 4 7 State Forest Service. Value of stores and field equipment .. , Lost, broken, &c. .. .. .. 18 6 10 Value of building .. .. .. Removal from property before sale —over- 50 0 0 looked Value of motor-vehicles.. .. .. j Loss on realization .. .. .. 185 17 6 Grazing fees .. .. • • • • j Unable to collect .. .. .. .. 364 16 6 Royalty on sleepers .. .. .. j Debtor unable to pay.. .. .. .. 5 0 0 Tourist and Health Resorts. Value of stores .. ' .. • ■ Destroyed by fire .. .. .. 6 13 0 Value of stores : .... .. Stolen .. .. .. .. 180 Value of fees due .. . • .. Debtors in indigent circumstances and un- .. 193 3 0 traceable Sundry debtors .. • • •. Unable to collect .. .. .. .. 138 0 5 Treasury. Amount advanced for payment to Public Associations ceased to exist as from 1st .. 391 8 0 Trustee of interest on Land Settlement January, 1916 Finance Association Debentures, Morrivale Nos. 1 and 2 93,627 16 11 135,169 18 5 V ' / Total .. •• .. .. £228,797 15 4 ' _