Oct. 31.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Six Months ended 30th SEPTEMBER, 1931, compared with the Six Months ended 30th SEPTEMBER, 1930.

ACCOUNT.

| SIX MONTHS | EXPENDITURE. | SIX MONTHS ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER, | | | |
|-------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|:------------------------------:|
| ENDED 30TH SEPT., | | 1931. | |
| 1930. | | | |
| Net. | | Gross. | Credits. |
| £ s. d. | Annual Appropriations- | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| 83,345 11 6 | Vote-Public Works, Departmental | 126,592 4 5 | 32,164 9 5 |
| 591,695 7 0 | ,, Railway-construction | 286,637 18 2 | 21,889 7 8 |
| 327,387 8 9 | ,, Additions to Open Lines | 34 2 2 | |
| | ,, Railways Improvement | 81,567 9 0 | 3,447 4 2 |
| | ,, Railways Improvement and Additions to Open Lines | 58,518 17 0 | 220,905 6 2 |
| 3,600 15 6 | ,, General | 6,272 2 7 | 81 14 6 |
| 14,168 13 7 | ,, Courthouses | 3,205 2 3 | 27 11 9 |
| 1,439 19 10 | ,, Prison Buildings and Works | 1,407 7 11 | 0 3 6 |
| 644 6 3 | ,, Police-stations | 672 2 5 | |
| 45,637 10 5 | ,, Postal and Telegraph | 43,166 19 1 | 570 19 5 |
| 1,831 9 3 | ,, Agricultural | | |
| 45,987 12 11 | ,, Mental Hospital Buildings | 24,441 2 3 | 52 7 7 |
| 5,052 17 1 | ,, Health and Hospital Institutions | 1,419 17 3 | |
| | ,, Education Buildings | 77,580 5 0 | 1,014 0 2 |
| Cr. 117 1 1 | ,, Timber-supply and Sawmills, &c., for Public Works Department | | 8 0 0 |
| | ,, Acquisition and Operation of Quarries for Public Works Department | 2,190 3 9 | 2,781 3 0 |
| 3,672 7 5 | ,, Lighthouses | 764 12 9 | |
| 1,843 13 5 | ,, Harbour-works | 2,111 15 6 | 100 19 6 |
| 2,730 11 8 | ,, Development of Tourist Resorts | 13,220 13 8 | 92 9 2 |
| 29,122 13 6 | ,, Department of Immigration | 8,300 9 6 | 5,410 2 1 |
| 11,390 4 8 | ,, Roads, &c. | 451,363 15 0 | 18,478 16 4 |
| 425,221 5 9 | ,, Roads to give Access to Outlying Districts | 4,995 12 5 | 31 18 0 |
| 42,207 15 11 | ,, Roads, &c., on Goldfields | | |
| 256 8 10 | ,, Telegraph Extension | 164,563 10 11 | 31,749 18 10 |
| 224,078 19 10 | ,, Contingent Defence | 26 18 4 | 33 1 3 |
| 11,576 17 8 | ,, Lands, Miscellaneous | 17,112 19 1 | 2,493 14 7 |
| 20,482 7 7 | ,, Irrigation, Water-supply, and Drainage | 9,524 10 7 | 874 8 10 |
| 26,032 16 3 | ,, Plant, Material, and Stores | 14,540 14 7 | 23,457 2 1 |
| 5,295 11 3 | | | |
| 1,924,586 4 9 | Unauthorized Expenditure,- Services not provided for | 1,400,231 5 7 | 365,664 18 0 |
| 104 17 4 | | 471 19 5 | |
| 1,924,691 2 1 | Total, Annual Appropriations .. | 1,400,703 5 0 | 365,664 18 0 |
| | Finance Act, 1931 (No. 2), Section 26,- Education Buildings | 75,548 4 5 | 211 17 0 |
| | Lake Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa Railway Trust Account,- | | |
| | Expenditure under Land Act, 1924, Section 383 (2)- Administration Expenses | | |
| 4 12 6 | Expenditure under Ellesmere Lands Drainage Act, 1905, Section 6 (1)- Subsidy to Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board | | |
| 439 5 0 | | 361 9 5 | |
| 443 17 6 | | 439 5 0 | |
| 153,044 18 1 | | 800 14 5 | |
| | Charges and Expenses of raising Loans,- New Zealand Loans Act, 1908- | | |
| | Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act, 1906 (redemptions) | | 993 4 6 |
| | Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act, 1908 (redemptions) | | 5 17 6 |
| | Finance Act, 1918 (No. 2), Section 29 (Public Works) | | 400 0 0 |
| | Finance Act, 1920, Section 15 (Public Works) | | 300 0 0 |
| | Finance Act, 1929, Section 2 (Public Works) | | 5 0 0 |
| | | | 1,704 2 0 |
| | Public Revenues Act, 1926, Section 42,- Finance Act, 1929, Section 2 (Public Works)- Treasury Bills redeemed out of proceeds of Loan | | |
| 375,000 0 0 | | | |
| | Balance at end of Six Months,- Cash | | 538,202 10 1 |
| 200,793 19 0 | Imprests outstanding- In the Dominion | | 245,852 4 3 |
| 421,588 7 3 | In London | | 21,983 0 8 |
| 138,262 14 8 | Investment Account- Securities held | | 2,790,300 0 0 |
| 3,216,860 7 0 | | | 3,596,337 15 0* |
| 3,977,505 7 11 | | | |
| £6,430,685 5 7 | Totals | | £4,709,217 5 10 |

• For explanatory statement see page 3089.