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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH—continued.

Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1925.

Liabilities. £ s. d. Capital Account .. .. .. .. 380,078 26 I National Development Expenditure Account— £s. d. Institutional fees paid in advance .. .. 539 00 1 Capital subsidies payable to Hospital Boards, Sundry creditors— £s. d. 1924-25.. .. .. .. .. 105,374 10 7 Trade and outstanding subsidies 57,839 65 j Land— £s. d. Departmental .. 2,641 18 4 Institutions .. .. 52,173 1 0 00,481 4 9 Quarantine stations.. .. 1,900 0 0 Reserve for depreciation— j54 073 1 0 Buildings .. .. .. 21,870 6 5 Improvements— Other improvements 350 1 8 Institutions .. .. 15,319 18 2 Plant and machinery .. 371 30 1 Quarantine stations.. .. 1,329 14 5 Furniture, fittings, and equip- jg 049 7 ment . . . . . . 13,46.1 16 0 ! Buildings— Mechanical office appliances .. 1,864 1 8 Institutions .. .. 190,508 19 4 Motor-vehicles .. .. 4,363 15 11 Quarantine stations .. 47,876 12 6 Push-bicycles .. .. 58 4 9 238,385 11 10 42,339 9 5 Plant and machinery at instituTreasury Adjustment Account .. .. 777,295 10 4 tions .. .. .. .. 5,513,10 0 Furniture, fittings, and. equipment— Institutions .. .. 47,898 19 9 Other .. .. .. 22,308 0 5 70,207 0 2 Less book value in Suspense, prior to writing off .. 412 6 9 69,794 13 5 Mechanical office appliances ~ .. 1,320 9 0 Motor cars, ambulances, lorries, and cycles— Institutions .. .. 6,194 19 0 Other .. .. .. 6,801 7 10 12,996 6 10 Push-bicycles .. . . .. 195 15 0 I Motor ambulances transferred to Hospital Boards .. .. 4,187 0 0 Less book value in Suspense, prior to writing off .. 4,187 0 0 Farm stock and non-consumable stores at institutions .. ... 3,648 14 3 Libraries (other than institutional) .. 599 0 6 Stores on hand— At institutions .. .. 15,489 3 1 Sera, vaccine, and laboratory stores .. .. .. 3,041 7 5 Drugs, disinfectants, &c., other than institutional.. .. 3,299 0 8 21,829 11 2 Blundell bequest (balance) .. .. 17 0 9 Cash : Receipts in General Post Office, &c. .. .. .. 287 0 11 Sundry debtors— Institutional . . 32,120 2 10 Other .. .. .. 4,222 1 10 36,342 4 8 Less bad debts in suspense .. 12,866 13 6 23,475 11 J2 Revenue Account —Excess of expenditure over income . . .. .. .. . . 706,572 18 0 £1,260,733 7 0 £1,260,733 7 0

Notes.—lnstitutional accounts : Owing to a change in the method of treating unissued stores on hand, certain stocks which were formerly included in the Equipment Accounts of the institutions are this year shown as stocks on hand, thereby correspondingly reducing the domestic and establishment charges for the year. The accounts include the following charges for which the Department possesses no Parliamentary appropriations: (a) Rent assessed by the Public Works Department; (6) interest at 4£ per cent, per annum on capital as at Ist April, 1924. E. Killick, Secretary. C. 11. Beggs, Accountant.

1 hereby certify that the various Income and Expenditure Accounts and Balance-sheet have been duly examined and compared with the relative books and documents submitted for audit, and correctly state the position as disclosed thereby, subject to the above departmental notes. —6. P. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.

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