Financial Reports




UNAUTHORISED EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDING THE 30th SEPTEMBER, 1863.

Description Amount
Railway £478 8 9
New Platform 105 0 0
Bluff Bridge 20 0 0
Improvements in Invercargill and Suburban Streets 1,170 18 0
Total for Roads 850 0 0
Rails 6 1 8
New Railway Wharf 80 0 0
New Warehouse 387 10 8
Bluff Landing Stages 234 5 4
Fencing Government Buildings 228 1 8
Supreme Court Fittings 80 0 0
Travelling Allowances and Uniforms 40 0 0
Metalling Streets in Mataura 8 10 0
Repairs to Court House 700 0 6
Lagoon Supreme Court Expenses 22 0 0
Sinking Wells 10 12 0
Bluff Sheep Yards 40 0 0
Valuations 25 10 0
Found-shed 0 15 9
Clinton Bridge 1,890 0 0
Interest on New Zealand Co.’s Debt, to 30th December 15 0 0
Contribution to Sub-Treasurer, General Government 100 0 0
Provincial Surgeon (retrospective salary) 96 9 8
Treasury Clerk 52 10 0
Assistant Clerks 48 11 9
Salary to Registrar of Deeds 195 14 2
Survey and Engineers’ Salaries 42 7 6
Police Wages 127 0 3
Lithographic Press and Printing 200 4 10
Harbour Salaries 189 11 5
Petty Salaries £7,489 18 11

Total | £7,489 18 11|

| Interest on overdraft | 642 10 0 |
| Expenditure in excess of votes | 55,756 16 8 |

Total unauthorised expenditure | £63,889 5 7 |

BALANCE SHEET OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING 30th SEPTEMBER, 1863.

ASSETS.

To unauthorised expenditure for which future legal provision is required... | £68,839 5 7
Immigrants’ Bills | 8469 0 10
Amount in hands of Immigration Agent on 31st December, 1862 | 3049 5 2
Loans to Town Board | 3100 0 0
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Total | £78,457 11 7|

LIABILITIES.

By amount of Unfunded Debt, Loans by Banks, &c. | £47,788 13 7
Province’s Share of Interest and Sinking Fund of first division of Half Million Loan, New Zealand Company’s Debt (nine months)* | 810 0 0
Amount to Credit of Province | 29,858 18 0
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Total | £78,457 11 7|

PERMANENT DEBTS.

Province’s Proportion of New Zealand Company’s Debt, allotted by Otago and Southland Public Debt Apportionment Act, 1861 | £18,000 0 0

*Note.—Not aware whether this should appear as a permanent charge under the head of permanent debts.

NATHL. CHALMERS, Provincial Treasurer.

Printed for the Provincial Government by SMALLFIELD & BAIN, Dee-street, Invercargill, Southland.




Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa PDF Southland Provincial Gazette 1863, No 64





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💰 Revenue and Expenditure of the Province of Southland (continued from previous page)

💰 Finance & Revenue
14 October 1863
Financial Report, Expenditure, Budget, Southland Province, Supplementary Estimates, Contingent, Railway
  • NATHL. CHALMERS, Provincial Treasurer