✨ Financial Report
THE ENGLISH AGENCY
IN ACCOUNT WITH THE PROVINCIAL TREASURER,
For Quarter Ending 31st December, 1868.
Dr.
| Date | Description | £ | s. | d. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868: | ||||
| Oct. 1 | To Balance | |||
| Bank of New Zealand | 1036 | 18 | 1 | |
| Oct. 21 | Amount of Draft by Agents on Provincial Treasurer | 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| Receipts from Emigrants:— | ||||
| By Matoaka: November | 449 | 10 | 0 | |
| Caroline, Coventry: February, 1869 | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| Forfeited Deposits | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Proceeds of Property left by Clara Brown and Ann Trevanow, who died on board | ||||
| Light Brigade; to be paid to relatives | 25 | 12 | 6 | |
| 472 | 10 | 0 |
Total | £3536| 1 | 0 |
Cr.
| Date | Description | £ | s. | d. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1865: | ||||
| Nov. 21 | By Bank of New Zealand: | |||
| Discount of Draft by Agents on Provincial Treasurer for £2000 at 3½ per cent., and stamp, £1 | 71 | 0 | 0 | |
| Expenses of Ships:— | ||||
| Payments to Shaw, Savill, and Co.:— | ||||
| Oct. 13 | First moiety passage-money, Mermaid | 845 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov. 21 | Ditto ditto, Matoaka | 803 | 15 | 0 |
| Nov. 26 | Second moiety passage-money, Light Brigade | 885 | 18 | 9 |
| 2734 | 13 | 9 | ||
| Needlework for Single Women:— | ||||
| Oct. 10 | By Mermaid | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| Nov. 17 | By Matoaka | 4 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | ||
| Expenses of Office:— | ||||
| Salaries and Wages | 69 | 17 | 2 | |
| Rent | 16 | 5 | 0 | |
| Postages | 7 | 0 | 2 | |
| Travelling Expenses | 1 | 12 | 3 | |
| Advertising | 30 | 11 | 8 | |
| Stationery | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
| Printing | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
| Stamps | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| Commissions to Agents | 33 | 3 | 10 | |
| Miscellaneous | 7 | 16 | 11 | |
| Expenses of Emigrants:— | ||||
| Oct. 17 | Henderson, J., (Mermaid) for Bedding | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| Nov. 17 | Excess of cost of Bedding, &c., for Single Women per Mermaid, over contributions of Emigrants | 0 | 14 | 5 |
| Ditto ditto, per Matoaka | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| Publisher of Pamphlet on Canterbury—for advertising | 2 | 4 | 7 | |
| Balance:— | ||||
| Cocks, Biddulph, and Co. | 538 | 9 | 9 | |
| Petty Cash | 8 | 14 | 1 | |
| 547 | 3 | 10 |
Total | £3536| 1 | 0 |
(a) This includes a sum of £238 6s. 5d. expended during this and the preceding quarter for "Special Services." This sum will be included in a draft at the end of the June or September quarter to reimburse the Emigration Account for Special Services to that date. The balance at Bankers is therefore £538 9s. 9d. less £238 6s. 5d.—£299 3s. 4d.
16, Charing Cross, London (S.W.),
26th March, 1869.
ALBERT G. OTWELL,
Acting Emigration Agent.
J. OLLIVIER,
Provincial Auditor.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1869, No 26
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💰 English Agency Financial Report for Quarter Ending 31st December, 1868
💰 Finance & Revenue26 March 1869
Financial Report, Emigration, Bank of New Zealand, Provincial Treasurer
- Clara Brown, Deceased emigrant
- Ann Trevanow, Deceased emigrant
- J. Henderson, Emigrant bedding expense
- ALBERT G. OTWELL, Acting Emigration Agent
- J. OLLIVIER, Provincial Auditor