Otago Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 179

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✨ Provincial Financial Accounts



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ADVANCE ACCOUNTS.

These comprise amounts advanced from time to time to Heads of Departments,* without warrant, for the payment of wages to men employed at a distance, such as Police, Road Laborers, Carpenters on Public Works, Pilots, Boats’ Crews, &c. The vouchers for such payments are sent in after signature, and the warrants being then attached, they are passed through the Auditor and Superintendent’s offices in the same way as for other payments. The annexed account shows the sums advanced to Heads of Departments, and accounted for during the past financial period:—

ADVANCE ACCOUNTS.

Balance 30th Sept., 1861. Advanced. Accounted for. Balance, March 31, 1862.
Roads and Bridges £342 15 5 £15,660 15 11 £15,965 15 7 £37 15 9
„ special ... 1,000 0 0 ... 1,000 0 0
Public Buildings 45 0 3 2,272 0 0 2,313 18 10 3 1 5
Police 70 0 0 6,865 13 4 6,826 1 2 109 12 2
„ special ... 1,194 14 6 1,194 14 6 ...
Gold Escort 7 3 6 ... ... 7 3 6
Paymaster Public Works 13 15 7 ... 4 0 0 9 15 7
Harbour ... 2,265 0 0 2,165 10 1 99 9 11
District Courts ... 689 19 0 689 19 0 ...
Scotch Thistle ... 60 0 0 ... 60 0 0

UNAUTHORISED EXPENDITURE.

Audit, £80, paid to Messrs. Gillies and Tayler for auditing the Public Accounts under the old Act.

Of the amounts comprised in the Supplementary Accounts of Expenditure unauthorised by, or in excess of, the votes of the Appropriation Act, 1861-2, the following have been guaranteed by resolutions of the Provincial Council:—

£ s. d.
Gold Fields 165 6 8
Police 6,728 6 3
Military 1,401 18 5
Moray Place Works to the extent of 400 0 0
Road, North East Valley to Port Chalmers, to the extent of 500 0 0
Waihola Jetty 45 2 6
Purchase of Runs comprised in Gold Fields 1,216 0 0

The Resolution in connection with the Police Force and the Gold Fields may, perhaps also apply to

£ s. d.
Hospital, Gold Fields 190 16 5
District Police Stations 534 3 6
Central 23 15 2
Prospecting Parties 226 14 0

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The sum of £1,949 6s. has been expended in the purchase of specimens of Gold from the various Fields of this Province, which have been forwarded in charge of Mr. Mathew Holmes, for the Exhibition in London, in May next, in accordance with an arrangement with the Commissioners for this Province.

CHARLES H. KETTLE,
Provincial Auditor.

April 14th, 1862.

Note by the Superintendent.—The advances are made, by letter, to enable the necessary payments to be made, and subsequently covered by warrant.

Printed for the Provincial Government by DANIEL CAMPBELL, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.




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💰 Provincial Expenditure for Half-Year Ended March 31, 1862 (continued from previous page)

💰 Finance & Revenue
14 April 1862
Expenditure, Provincial Government, Financial Report, Loans, Balance Sheet
  • Mathew Holmes, Forwarded gold specimens for Exhibition

  • Charles H. Kettle, Provincial Auditor