D.—l.

Summary.

Of the net payments totalling £5,154,542 shown above, £2,379,914 may be regarded as expended from loan-moneys and £55,774,628 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 from the Unemployment Fund and similar amounts which, if deducted, would detract from the true portrayal of activities. £ Per Cent. Roads, inclining main highways .. .. .. 3,089,367= 40-16 / j y_V Public buildings, including schools .. .. 409,649= 5-33 / j / -yA Hydro-Electric (construction and working expenses) .. 391,299= 5 -09 / /yS - Railway construction, improvements, and additions .. 343,301= 4-46 j j/ / Settlement of unemployed workers .. .. 220,567= 2-87 / Laiyaf improvement .. .. .. .. 97,568= 1• 27 I Irri'igation .. .. .. .. .. 152,718= 1<99 H Pyiblic buildings, roads, &c. (maintenance) .. .. 197,507= 2-57 \ I • Telegraph extension .. .. .. .. 260,271= 3-38 \ .s 1\ \ /Native-land Settlement .. .. .. .. 337,854= 4-39 \ / I \ Unemployment Board (expenditure by Public Works \X J \ Department) .. .. .. .. .. 511,851= 6-65 \ \ I -A / Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 651,139= 8-47 / -«-J Revenue (receipts) .. .. .. .. 1,028,416= 13-37 Total revenue and gross expenditure for year ... £7,691,507=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, 1935 .. .. .. 1,193,331 Add fundfc received during the year — Finance Act, 1930 (No. 2), section 2 613,090 Fin,-nice Act, 1931 (No. 4), section 2 1 ,636,910 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 213,165 — 2,463,165 3,656,496 Deduct expenditure during 1935-36 — Uifder annual appropriations .. .1,748,450 Ujider permanent appropriations . . 5,395 1,753,845 Balance available, 31st Marcli, 1936 .. £l ,902,651

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(to. of Work. * Receipts,* Public Works Department. £ Ordinary Revenue Account, Irrigation (receipts for year) .. .. .. .. .. 17,023 Electric Supply Account (sales of energy, miscellaneous receipts, &c.) : Receipts for year .. 993,812 Main Highways Revenue Fund (repayment of advances, &c., and interest) : Receipts for year .. 17,581 Total receipts .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,028,416

Public Works Other m , j Department. Departments. £ £ £ Gross expenditure .. .. .. .. .. 5,315,994 1, 34.y7097 6,663,091 Recoveries and receipts .. .. .. .. .. 2,036,007 500,958 2,536,965 * Excludes motor-spirits tax, registration fees, &c., collected by other Departments, *»lso other small registration fees, &c.