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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct statement of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Province of Hawke’s Bay for the financial year ending 30th June, 1867, and that the following are the items of unauthorised and over Expenditure during that period.

[The sums expended under the heads of “Native Land Purchases” and “Surveys of Native Lands,” which have been shown as Unauthorised Expenditure in the Abstracts for the quarters prior to the June quarter, do not appear as such in this sheet, they having been transferred to the account of Loan Appropriation £60,000 Act, passed in the Provincial Council of Hawke’s Bay, 1864.]

1.—Unauthorised Expenditure:

Description £ s. d.
Provincial Government of Wellington 25 0 0
Maintenance of steamer Huntress 8 16 0
Steamer Huntress 21 19 6
Boat Shed at Mohaka 26 9 4
South Meanee roads 238 6 0
Boat for Waikari Ferry 3 0 0
Lock-up, Meaneo 95 0 0
                                          | 418 10 10  |

Advance on Imprest to be accounted for—
South Meanee and West Clive Roads | 240 0 0 |
|------------|
| 658 10 10 |

2.—Over Expenditure:

Description £ s. d.
Planting Government Reserve 14 5 0
Printing Acts of Hawke’s Bay 9 15 0
Public Fences 22 11 6
Fencing Police Station, Clive 1 1 0
Middle Road 116 11 7
Kereru Road 39 19 7
Road through 40-mile Bush 425 7 9
Miscellaneous Contingencies 136 13 10
Opening mouth of Wairoa River 35 8 10
Taupo Road 24 2 0
Grants in aid of Roads 133 0 0
Road Contingencies 47 16 1
Hospital Department 138 14 11
Registration of Dogs Contingencies 1 18 3
Penitentiary Contingencies 6 0 3
Mohaka Bridle-track 77 19 2
Clive Road 74 11 3
                                          |------------|
                                          | 1305 16  0 |

TOTAL | £1964 6 10 |

Memo.—The total Ordinary Revenue for 1866 was £39,306 11s. 2d.; the above amount of Unauthorised and Over Expenditure is consequently within the stipulated one-twentieth thereof.

G. E. RICHARDSON,
Provincial Auditor.

Audit Office, Napier, August 7, 1867.



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💰 Abstract of Expenditure for the Province of Hawke's Bay (continued from previous page)

💰 Finance & Revenue
7 August 1867
Expenditure, Financial Abstract, Hawke's Bay, Provincial Government
  • G. E. Richardson, Provincial Auditor