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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH— continued. Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1933. Liabilities. Assets. Capital Account— £ s. d. £ s. d. Land— £ s. d. £ s. d. Expenditure out of Public Works Institutions .. .. 54,698 9 3 Fund to Ist April, 1932 .. 418,931 14 0 Quarantine stations, &c. .. 2,473 6 6 Net Expenditure out of Public 57 171 15 9 Works Fund for year ended Buildings— 31st March, 1933, £323 Bs. Bd., Institutions .. ..265,146 10 2 less reduction for year, £806 .. 482 11 4 Quarantine stations, &c. .. 49,196 12 0 , __„ 314 343 22 418,449 2 8 Stores on handLand at Otaki handed over by At institutions .. .. 11,357 011 Wellington Hospital Board .. 3,235 0 0 Sera, vaccine, and laboratory Expenditure out of Consolidated stores .. .. .. 1,540 9 0 Fund .. .. .. 136,529 19 9 Head Office bulk store .. 8.187 9 0 558,214 2 5 21,084 18 11 Creditors— Stores afloat .. .. .. 1,752 13 10 Departmental .. .. 1,099 3 1 Motor-cars, motor-cycles, amSundry .. .. .. 51,141 19 4 bulances, and lorries— 52,241 2 5 Institutions .. .. 1,880 911 Institutional fees paid in advance .. 244 2 6 Other .. .. .. 7,828 0 7 Medical practitioners'fees paid in advance 285 19 0 9,708 10 6 Institutional Fees Suspense Account .. 4,770 9 0 Live-stock and consumable farm stores at inPromotiOri of Health Fund .. .. 822 10 10 stitutions .. .. .. .. 2,425 12 10 Reserve for depreciation— Furniture, fittings, and equipment— Institutions .. .. .. 124,054 18 8 Institutions .. .. 54,564 17 11 Other .. .. .. 42,898 12 0 Dental clinics .. .. 10,063 7 0 166,953 10 8 Other .. .. .. 20,008 19 0 Writings-off, Suspense Account .. .. 6,544 16 1 84,637 3 11 Treasury Adjustment Account .. .. 611,472 6 5 Mechanical office applicances— Institution .. .. 578 4 6 Other .. .. .. 1,640 12 10 2,218 17 4 Libraries (other than institutional) .. 939 18 9 Push bicycles— Institutions .. .. 50 9 8 Other .. .. .. 174 7 2 224 16 10 Plant and machinery at institutions .. 6,243 11 9 Other improvements— Institutions .. .. 36,413 1 10 Quarantine stations .. 2,852 19 5 39,266 1 3 Debtors— Sundry .. .. .. 36,839 1 7 Departmental .. .. 1,376 0 7 38,215 22 Assets in Suspense-— Institutions .. .. 981 4 0 Other .. .. .. 238 19 11 1,220 3 11 National Development Expenditure Account 18,196 18 7 Cash in Post Office or in transit .. 1,270 17 2 General Revenue Account: Excess of expenditure over income .. .. .. 802,628 13 8 £1,401,548 19 4 £1,401,548 19 4 A. Keisenbeeg, A.R.A.N.Z., Secretary. W. T. Findlay, A.R.A.N.Z., Accountant. Note. —The accounts include the following charges for which the Department possesses no parliamentary appropriations : (a) Rent assessed by Public Works Depart7nent; (b) interest at 4J per cent, on capital. (Sundry debtors, £38,215 2s. 2d., includes £6,872 lis. 3d. in respect of subsidies advanced to Hospital Boards.) I 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. —J. H. Fowleb, Deputy Controller and Auditor-General.

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