YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1940.

PERMANENT CHARGE S —continued..

REMARKS. («) Post, and Telegraph Department, £70,000; Railways Department, £-150,000; Electric Supply Account, £110,000; Dairy Industry Account, £360,000; other accounts, £15,000. (b) lire-tax, £149,016 9s. 9d.; motor-vehicles fees, fines, &c., £612,395 2s. 7d.; transfer to vote "Customs" in respect of expenses incidental to the collection of tire-tax, £1,333 16s. 5d • total, £762,745 Bs. 9d. (c) 92 per cent, of net tax collected payable to Main Highways Account and the remaining 8 per cent. to certain local authorities. (d) Section 19 of the Finance Act, 1932-33 (No. 2), provides that, in the case of motor-vehicles other than petrol or electrically driven, four-tenths of tax and fines shall be credited to the Consolidated Fund and six-tenths dealt with as provided by section 9 of the Motor-spirits Taxation Act, 1927. (e) Section 17 of the Finance Act, 1935 (No. 2), provides that the Minister of Finance may refund to every racing club totalizator-tax up to £500 received from that club equal to per cent, of the gross totalizator takings during the year. (/) . £ Public Service Superannuation Fund ... .. .. 35,000 Teachers' Superannuation Fund . . . . . . . . 113,000 Government Railways Superannuation Fund .. .. 52,000 £200,000 (ff) " Thirds " and " fourths "of rentals, &c., received are paid to local bodies for the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges and opening up Crown lands.

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