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Summary.

Of the net payments totalling £4,457,001 shown above, £2,213,566 may be regarded as expended from loan-moneys and £2,204,807 as expended from annual taxation. In diagrammatic form the ratio which the various classes bear to the whole is shown below. It should be noted that the figures are gross—that is, before deducting recoveries, which include subsidies from the Unemployment Fund and similar amounts which, if deducted, would detract from the true portrayal of activities. « T £ Per Cent. -» —I ——N. —* Roads, including main highways. . .. .. 2,592,797 = 39-64 / I y\ Hydro-electric (construction and working expenses) 538,973 = 8-24 / | / """TT Public buildings, including schools .. .. 307,367 = 4-70 / // -» \ —Settlement of unemployed workers .. .. 251,441 — 3-84 / / / Railway construction, improvements, and additions 192,290 = 2-94 Lands improvement .. .. 148,433 = 2-27 •*—lrrigation .. .. . . . . . • 117,555 = 1-80 p u biic buildings, roads, &c. (maintenance) .. 140,887 = 2-15 , / \ Telegraph extension .. .. .. .. 187,932 = 2-87 \ / \ —Native-land settlement . . .. .. .. 230,273 — 3-52 \ / \ \ — Unemployment Board (expenditure by Public Works \ / \ N. / Department) .. .. .. .. 358,159 = 5-48 \ Miscellaneous .. .. .. •• 497,776 = 7-61 '—~Revenue (receipts) .. .. .. .. 977,009 = 14-94 Total revenue and gross expenditure for year £6,540,892 100-00 In regard to the ways and means of the General Purposes Account of the Public Works Fund the position is as under : — £ £ Balance available, Ist April, 1934 . . . . . . 825,960 Add funds received during the year — Finance Act, 1930 (No. 2), section 2 1,386,910 Miscellaneous .. .. 523,571 1,910,481 2,736,441 Deduct expenditure during 1934-35— Under annual appropriations . . 1 ,541,980 Under permanent appropriations . . 1,130 1,543,110 Balance available, 31st March, 1935 . . £1,193,331 The estimated net expenditure under the General Purposes Account for the current financial year, 1935-36, is £2,818,500, and arrangements are being made with the Minister of Finance to provide the necessary funds. This is the amount shown on the Public Works estimates, which also show an estimated net expenditure of £621,500 from the Electric Supply Account and £1,760,000 from the Main Highways Account, a total for all these accounts of £5,200,000.

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j. TTT , Recoveries, Glass ot Work. 193d 35 Receipts,* Public Wobks Department. £ Ordinary Revenue Account, Irrigation (receipts for year) .. .. .. .. 19,687 Electric Supply Account (sales of energy, miscellaneous receipts, &c.) : Receipts for year . . .941,194 Main Highways Revenue Fund (repayment of advances, &c., and interest) : Receipts for year . . 16,128 Total receipts .. .. .. .. . • •• •• 977,009

Public Works Other Total Department. Departments. £ £ £ Gross expenditure .. .. .. •• 4,631,747 932,136 5,563,883 Recoveries and receipts .. .. .. •• 1,864,484 219,407 2,083,891 * Excludes motor-spirits tax, registration fees, &c., collected by other Departments, also other small registration fees, &e.