Provincial Financial Report




ABSTRACT of RECEIPTS and EXPENDITURE of the Province of Wellington,

for Quarter commencing on the 1st day of January and ending on the Thirty-First day of March, 1874.

RECEIPTS.

ORDINARY INCOME--

Description £ s. d.
Licenses, Publicans' 60 0 0
Auctioneers' 40 0 0
Pawnbrokers' 20 0 0
Pilotage, Wellington 905 10 8
Wanganui 90 8 4
Manawatu 12 19 10
Sheep Assessment 255 12 4
Toll Gates 2136 8 9
Total Ordinary Income 3520 19 11

INCIDENTAL RECEIPTS--

Description £ s. d.
Fees for Registering Dogs 112 10 0
Cattle 8 0 0
and Horse Brands 60 19 0
Hospital Subsistence Money 7 0 0
Lunatic Asylum 230 0 0
Rent of Offices 26 0 0
Island of Mana 6 10 0
Cottage on Gaol Acre 5 9 9
Queen's Warehouse 5 0 0
For maintenance of Debtors 22 0 0
Picking Oakum 3 19 6
Tithes on Bricks 42 6 4
Royalty on Timber 6 18 6
By sale of Impounded Horses 6 10 0
Advertising in Gazette 0 10 0
Moiety of cost of Theodolite 11 6 10
Interest on Deposit Trust 114 14 1
Loan & Investment Co., N.Z. 53 15 0
Interest, Bank of N.Z. 10 6 8
Capitation and Special Allowance 1961 18 6
Total Incidental Receipts 2678 17 6

TERRITORIAL INCOME--

Description £ s. d.
Land Sales 10,124 17 6

DEPOSIT ACCOUNT--

Description £ s. d.
Deposits on Leases of Toll Gates 250 0 0
Asylum Recreation Fund 14 18 6

REFUNDS--

Description £ s. d.
Survey Department, account Native Land Purchase 970 7 7
Telegrams 11 12 6
Repairs of Roads 0 16 6
Native Land Purchases 1050 0 0

SPECIAL ACCOUNT (Diseased Sheep Act, 1872)--

Description £ s. d.
Fees Registering Sheep Brands 24 15 0
Fines 25 2 0

ROAD BOARDS--

Description £ s. d.
Second and final instalments, payable under clause 4 of General Government Appropriation Act, 1873 3223 13 4
Deposit Wellington Trust, Loan and Investment Company, amount withdrawn 4987 6 3

BRIDGE FUND ACCOUNT--

Description £ s. d.
Moiety of cost of Pile Driver 16 5 0

AMOUNTS TRANSFERRED UNDER WORKS APPROPRIATION ACT, 1874--

Description £ s. d.
Roads and Bridges 20 2 6
Gaol Department 1069 5 8
Miscellaneous Contingencies 322 10 4
Survey Department 508 12 1
Contingent Vote for Public Works 474 7 6

PROVINCIAL ACCOUNT, NO. 2--

Description £ s. d.
Cash transferred 20,000 0 0
Amount of Cheques drawn in error on Provincial Account, and charged thereto 309 4 6

Total Receipts | 49,603 14 2|

EXPENDITURE.

EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE--

Description £ s. d.
Executive 883 6 8
Legislative 81 6 8
Without Appropriation Act 49 3 8

JUDICIAL AND POLICE--

Description £ s. d.
Gaol Department, Wellington 666 18 11
Wanganui 47 4 6
Police Department 1440 0 3

CHARITABLE--

Description £ s. d.
Wellington Hospital 446 9 2
Wanganui Hospital Grant-in-Aid 75 0 0
Lunatic Asylum 639 12 4
Charitable Aid 220 10 0

(Of this amount, under “Charitable,” there has been expended without Appropriation Act, £770 4s. 7d.)

HARBOURS--

Description £ s. d.
Wellington Harbour 490 3 6
Wanganui 229 4 5
Manawatu 94 16 5
Light House 88 17 0
Signal Stations 81 1 3

SPECIAL--

Description £ s. d.
Sheep Inspection 437 4 7
Weights and Measures 77 15 0
Toll Gates 305 18 2

MISCELLANEOUS--

Description £ s. d.
Messengers 122 12 0
Fuel and Lighting 25 3 8
Printing and Advertising 243 3 9
Stationery 4 12 0
Wallace Annuity 50 0 0
Miscellaneous Contingencies 831 12 6
Telegrams 30 4 7
Mrs. Lyall 5 0 0

(Of this amount, under “Miscellaneous,” there has been expended without appropriation, £118 10s. 2d.)

PUBLIC WORKS & UNDERTAKINGS--

Description £ s. d.
Native Land Purchases 1471 14 11
Without Appropriation 31 13 9
Land Department 224 5 10
Survey 3219 0 3
Engineer’s Department 808 9 5
Insurance 76 15 3
Ferries 165 17 4
Provincial Government Buildings 7 19 2
Furniture 7 11 0
Repairs Wellington Gaol 23 15 3
Boat, Manawatu Pilot 20 0 0
Lamps for Lighthouse 40 3 9
Rates on Crown Lands 200 1 11
Council Library 10 10 0
Erecting Sheep Dips 147 10 0
Grant of Land to Dr. Featherston 2500 0 0

ROADS--

Description £ s. d.
Repairs of Roads 1752 16 4
Palmerston to Fitzherbert 87 3 0
Bulls to Palmerston 2479 12 10
Pahautanui to Belmont 6 15 6
Talaunui to Ohotu 6 0 0
Waipoua towards 40-Mile Bush 6 4 0
Wangaehu to Westmere 25 15 0
Masterton to Castle Point 106 13 0
Metalling Taueru Road 1214 9 8
Road round Porirua Harbour 150 0 0
Road to Evans' Bay 74 13 7

BRIDGES--

Description £ s. d.
Oroua Bridge 171 0 0
Without Appropriation 119 0 0

Total Expenditure | 22,732 14 7|

Carried forward | 22,732 14 7|



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Wellington Provincial Gazette 1875, No 10





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💰 Abstract of Receipts and Expenditure of the Province of Wellington

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Financial report, Quarterly, Receipts, Expenditure, Wellington Province
  • Mrs. Lyall, Received payment
  • Dr. Featherston, Grant of land