✨ 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
|
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
|
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.
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Revenue and Expenditure of the Province of Southland
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💰 Finance & Revenue14 October 1863
Financial Report, Expenditure, Budget, Southland Province, Supplementary Estimates, Contingent, Railway
- NATHL. CHALMERS, Provincial Treasurer
Southland Provincial Gazette 1863, No 64