Provincial Financial Statement




ABSTRACT of Receipts and Expenditure of the Province of Wellington, for the Quarter commencing on the First day of October, and ending on the Thirty-first day of December, 1865.

To General Government Debentures, and Treasury Bills in hands of Provincial Treasurer £ s. d. £ s. d.
19,200 0 0
To Balance in hands of Provincial Sub-Treasurer, Wanganui 1,236 2 3
20,436 2 3

RECEIPTS.

1. ORDINARY REVENUE—

£ s. d.
Customs, gross receipts
Do. Wellington 5653 0 0
Do. Wanganui 1995 15 6
Licenses, Publicans 158 13 10
Pilotage, Wellington 142 7 6
Do. Wanganui 10 0 0
Assessment on Sheep 773 17 7
Registration of Brands & Dogs 25 10 0
Hospital Subsistence Money 22 11 0
Toll bar, Kai Warra Warra 412 0 0
Rent, Queen’s Warehouse 97 6 7
Wharfage, Queen’s Wharf 386 13 4
Rates on land 882 6 11
Contributions for Grants in Aid 254 2 4
Contributions for Grants in Aid of erection of School Houses 86 2 0
10,900 11 9

Incidental Receipts—

| Refund overpayment, Roads Department | 4 0 0 |
| Do. Immigration Depot | 10 0 0 |
| Pipitea Street | 12 0 0 |
| Damage to Wharf by s.s. “Albion” | 54 0 0 |
| Refund overpayment, Grants in Aid | 1 0 0 |
| For oakum picked at Gaol | 9 10 0 |
| Maintenance of a debtor, etc. | 0 16 8 |
| | 84 5 0 |

2. SPECIAL—

| Wanganui Bridge Debentures | 200 0 0 |
| Reclaimed land | 3,000 0 0 |
| Interest Hawke’s Bay Debt 6 months ending 31st December, 1865 | 1,250 0 0 |
| Refund moiety of Salary, Interpreter of Land Purchase Dept. | 41 5 6 |
| Interest on Treasury Bills and Debentures, to 31st December, 1865 | 676 5 0 |
| Immigrants Promissory Notes | 162 19 2 |
| | 5,330 9 8 |

By amount overdrawn at the Banks | 6,768 4 2 |

EXPENDITURE.

1. EXECUTIVE—

| Superintendent’s Department | 335 12 6 |
| Provincial Treasurer and Secretary’s Department | 493 11 6 |
| Law Officer | 75 0 0 |
| Chief Land Commissioner | 68 19 4 |
| | 908 3 4 |

2. LEGISLATIVE—

| Provincial Council | 325 10 2 |

3. JUDICIAL—

| Supreme Court | 285 11 8 |
| Gaol Department Wellington | 537 8 7 |
| Do. Wanganui | 222 5 5 |
| Police Department | 1,153 18 0|
| | 2,199 3 8 |

4. CHARITABLE—

| Medical | 284 12 8 |
| Lunatic Asylum | 210 16 8 |
| | 495 9 4 |

5. SPECIAL—

| Harbor Department Wellington | 299 15 11|
| Do. Wanganui | 297 11 0 |
| Signal Stations | 25 12 0 |
| Inspectors of Sheep | 162 16 4 |
| Weights, Measures, Brands, &c. | 35 5 0 |
| Dog Nuisance Act | 6 5 0 |
| | 823 5 3 |

6. MISCELLANEOUS—

| Messengers to Public Offices | 65 5 0 |
| Fuel for Printing Gazettes and Forms | 7 10 0 |
| Charitable Aid | 170 1 9 |
| Miscellaneous Contingencies | 446 17 7 |
| Expenses of Elections | 6 11 0 |
| | 744 4 5 |

7. PUBLIC WORKS, &c.—

| Land Purchase Department | |
| Expenses of Department | 158 7 0 |
| Payment, &c., to Natives | 1,029 0 4|
| Land Department | 488 4 3 |
| Survey do. | 2,517 10 9|
| Roads do. | 991 2 7 |
| | 5,134 4 11|

8. SUNDRY UNDERTAKINGS—

| Education | 545 11 1 |
| Council Library | 1 16 0 |
| Observatory | 25 0 0 |
| Ferries, Bells, &c. | 60 0 0 |
| Steam Subsidy | 260 0 0 |
| Furniture, repairs and Insurance | 5 0 0 |
| Toll-bar, Kai Warra Warra | 39 0 0 |
| Time ball | 3 1 2 |
| Queen’s Warehouse and Wharf | 411 9 11 |
| | 1,330 18 2|

ROADS—

| Repairs of Roads | 1,005 16 8 |
| Featherston to Masterton | 27 0 0 |
| Road from Featherston to Waihenga | 175 16 0 |
| Masterton to Castle Point | 500 0 0 |
| Road round Porirua Harbor | 160 0 0 |
| Rangitikei to Wanganui | 865 6 4 |
| Manawatu Roads | 215 4 0 |
| Grants in Aid | 4,369 3 2 |

DISTRICT ROADS—

| Horokiwi | 25 0 0 |
| Western Hutt, No. 2 | 53 12 0 |
| Ohariu | 100 0 0 |
| Lower Waiwetu | 52 10 0 |
| Pahautanui | 78 10 8 |

| Carried forward | £36,751 8 8 |
| | £7,471 7 4 |
| | 17,729 3 5 |



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Wellington Provincial Gazette 1866, No 6





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