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Upon the Class ‘Public Buildings’ I have only to remark that the amounts paid in excess of Votes were in all cases paid before the Audit Act came into force.
The same observation will also apply to the next Class, ‘Public Works,’ but I have to request the attention of the Council to the vouchers, which still await my certificate for payment, which has been withheld only because I found the Votes exceeded by the Commissioner’s disbursements to the end of January. The most important of these are on item No. 5, ‘Breakwaters’ amounting to £891 9s. 4d. and item No. 8 ‘the Cutting through the Shingle Bank’ amounting to £147, but on this last account, there have to be brought to account further vouchers, paid without Audit by the Commissioner since the Audit Act has been in operation, amounting to £722 10s. 6d. I have not passed these vouchers, and must leave them for the Council to approve.
‘The Overland Route to Christchurch’ has been exceeded by £617 5s. 3d., but there is a set-off of £600 against this amount, being a refund of money granted on Imprest to pay wages. The list attached will show a liability still to be provided for of £633 18s. 2d.
There are other vouchers paid by the Commissioner without audit, and for purposes which are not in the Appropriation Act. They consist of—
£152 15 0 ... Police Quarters at Ross.
20 0 0 ... Warden’s House at Greymouth.
34 5 0 ... Miscellaneous expenditure at the Commissioner’s House.
110 18 10 ... One-third Maintenance of the Greymouth Hospital in excess of Vote.
19 7 8 ... Bailiff’s Fees, for which there is no Vote.
75 0 0 ... On account of the reception of his Excellency, paid under direction of his Honor, but after his power to authorise had been exceeded.
97 13 0 ... Revenue Detectives, without vote.
Making a total, with the amounts already alluded to, of £1232 14s. 8d.
The items under the following class—Unvoted Expenditure—were all paid by the Commissioner before the commencement of the current year, with the exception of the last two—viz., the Governor’s reception, £441 15s. 1d., to which amount outstanding liabilities have to be added, and the remission of a public-house licensing fee, amounting to £25.
The excess of Expenditure, exclusive of the items above referred to on the West Coast Gold-fields Account, amounts to £11,163 17 3d.
The gross amount of the Expenditure in excess of the Vote amounts therefore to ... £23,661 14 10
From which we may deduct refunds to the extent ... 1,600 0 0
Leaving a Balance of ... £22,061 14 10
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1867, No 35
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Auditor's Report for Quarters Ending Sept. 30, Dec. 31, 1866, and March 31, 1867
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💰 Finance & Revenue11 June 1867
Financial statements, Receipts, Disbursements, Comparative statement, Provincial Council, Unvoted Expenditure, Medical Comforts, Postage, Diseased Cattle Act, Pastoral Associations, Governor’s Reception, Canterbury Bond Stamps, Public Plantations, Fencing, Harbour Department, Public Works, Gaol, Tramway Works, Provincial Government Works, Avon, Hagley Park, Charitable Aid Fund, General Miscellaneous, Rakaia Ferry, Godley Statue, Harbour Master, Wool exports, Sea Wall, Lyttelton, West Canterbury Gold Fields, Audit Act