.B. —1 [FT. IV], SUP. TO 1930.

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT —continued. ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF QUARRIES (PUBLIC WORKS FUND) : TE WERA QUARRY. Revenue Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1930. Dr. £ s. d. Gr. To Metal oil hand, Ist April, 1929 .. .. 75 0 0 By Sales of quarry output for period £ s. d. £ s. d. Stripping .. .. .. .. 1,400 0 0 (21,089 cubic yards) .. 10,091 1 10 Quarrying and feeding crusher .. .. 4,830 18 3 Haulage on same .. .. 2,223 8 3 Repairs to plant, access, and jig-lines.. .. 608 1 7 12,314 10 1 Cost of running train .. .. 1,943 7 1 Metal, &c., on hand, 31st March, 1930 .. 48 0 0 Gross profit, carried down .. .. .. 3,505 3 2 £12,362 10 1 £12,362 10 I £ s. d. ! £ s. d. To Supervision .. .. .. .. 326 10 4 By Gross profit, brought down .. .. .. 3,505 3 2 Loading trucks .. .. .. . . 177 3 3 Accident and holiday pay .. .. .. 323 8 9 Miscellaneous expenses .. .. .. 277 4 9 Installation of plant and preliminary expenses (proportion written off) .. .. .. 265 3 3 Interest on capital at 4J per cent. .. .. 372 12 4 Depreciation— £ s. d. On plant hired from plant vote.. 170 0 0 On quarry assets .. .. 372 15 3 — 542 15 3 Balance, net profit, for period .. . . 1,220 5 3 £3,505 3 2 £3,505 3 2 Note. —The following charges have been included for which no parliamentary appropriation is held : (a) Interest (temporary charge) on net cash advances to 31st March, 1930, at 4J per cent., and on value of plant on loan from " Plant " vote ; (6) allowance for depreciation of fixed assets. MAINTENANCE OP, AND REPAIRS TO, ROADS, CONTROL OF RIVERS, ETC. (CONSOLIDATED FUND). Income and Expenditure Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1930. £ s. d. £ s. d. To Maintenance and repairs to roads .. .. 18,675 12 6 By Interest on advances to local bodies from Renewal of road bridges .. .. .. 8,441 19 8 Public Works Fund .. .. .. 341 15 6 Restoration of flood damage .. .. 16,174 3 6 Balance, being excess of expenditure over Rail freight on road metal for local bodies .. 2,010 11 3 income for the year, transferred to annual Compensation for injuries .. .. .. 206 16 0 maintenance accounts — £ s. d. Transfer to Main Highways Revenue Fund Roads, &o. . .. .. 84,705 18 7 under section 14, Main Highways Act, 1922.. 35,000 0 0 Waihou and Ohinemuri Contribution towards maintenance, &c., of Rivers Account .. 1,117 11 5 Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers improvement Imprest Supply Act, 1927, works .. .. .. .. 1,117 11 5 and Local Authorities EmDepartmental administration, proportion alio- powering Act, 1928 .. 122,430 14 0 cated for the year .. .. .. 1,700 0 0 208,254 4 0 Interest at 4J per cent, credited to Treasury on advances to local bodies from Public Works Fund .. .. .. ■. 238 5 11 Subsidy to Hawke's Bay River Board (repairs to stop-banks damaged by floods) .. 1,550 0 0 Subsidy to Lawrence Borough (widening and deepening Weatherstone's Creek) .. .. 1,160 16 11 Protection of Crown lands from erosion .. Cr. 110 11 8 Imprest Supply Act, 1927, and Local Authorities Empowering Amendment Act, 1928 (Relief of Unemployment) .. .. 122,430 14 0 £208,595 19 6 £208,595 19 0 Note. —£1,700 for departmental administration is included without appropriation.

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