New Zealand Gazette – 1867 – No. 53

Page 379

✨ Government Financial Statements

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 379
FINANCIAL YEAR 1865-6.-(See pages 76 and 77.)*

DISBURSEMENTS.
I.-General Charges.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Civil List ... 27,500 0 0
Interest and Sinking Funds ... 174,895 16 5
Permanent Charges under Acts of General Assembly ... 11,555 12 3
Executive ... 6,980 0 0
Legislative ... 14,050 0 0
Judicial ... 1,400 0 0
Registration of Land ... 750 0 0
Do. Deeds, Births, &c. ... 1,150 0 0
Customs ... 1,290 0 0
Postal ... 99,500 0 0
Internal Defence ... 25,000 0 0
Native Department ... 33,000 0 0
Printing Establishment ... 4,688 0 0
Geological Department ... 3,000 0 0
Miscellaneous Services ... 10,000 0 0
Refunds of Revenue ... 532 6 1
Savings on Votes for District Registrars of Land and District Courts, carried to
Revenues of 1866-7 ... 2,485 3 11
417,776 18 8

The above sum of £417,776 18s. 8d. is debited against Provinces in proportion to the
amount of Revenue levied in each Province, as required by "The Surplus Revenues
Act, 1858," less the sum of £7,076 13s. as a set off against the "General Receipts"
shewn on the opposite side, viz.:-

Set off against General Receipts
Auckland ... 7,076 13 0
Taranaki ... 85,086 17 8
Wellington ... 8,495 17 8
Hawke's Bay. ... 44,377 4 9
Nelson ... 12,200 7 2
Marlborough ... 26,108 4 7
Canterbury ... 3,676 18 11
Otago ... 114,669 14 5
Southland ... 16,283 12 1 417,776 18 8

II.-Provincial Charges.
For maintenance of Departments within each Province, debited wholly against the
Province in which the expense was incurred, viz. :-
Auckland ... 35,997 11 3
Taranaki ... 3,749 17 1
Wellington ... 15,957 2 3
Hawke's Bay... ... 5,638 9 6
Nelson ... 8,502 17 3
Marlborough... ... 6,832 18 10
Canterbury ... 36,455 6 11
Otago ... 54,592 2 4
Southland ... 10,247 12 11 177,973 18 4

III.-Supplementary Expenditure.
The unauthorized expenditure of years 1863, 1864, and 1865, charged against the
Revenues of 1865-6 under the authority of Appropriation Act 1865-6:—
Province of Auckland ... 36,505 2 0
Taranaki ... 3,643 12 10
Wellington ... 11,820 8 5
Hawke's Bay ... 3,252 18 6
Nelson ... 6,814 17 8
Marlborough ... 4,138 3 0
Canterbury ... 26,143 0 8
Otago ... 63,717 0 3
Southland ... 11,499 3 9 167,534 7 1

IV.-Surplus Revenues.
To credit of Provinces, viz.:-Auckland ... 28,098 1 8
Taranaki ... 2,651 8 1
Wellington ... 24,690 19 7
Hawke's Bay... ... 5,533 8 9
Nelson ... 15,550 15 7
Canterbury ... 72,979 0 9 149,503 14 5

Deduct to debit of Marlborough ... 6,623 13 11
" Otago ... 310 19 4
" Southland ... 2,494 4 6 9,428 17 9

140,074 16 8
£903,360 0 9

*This and the following similar references are to the pages of the Finance Accounts of the Colonial Treasurer for 1865-6.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1867, No 53

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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