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exist—can have no effect whatever upon the general result; and it was the correctness of that result that I hoped to prove, and think I have proved.
The only serious difficulty that I found was in the receipts and expenditure under “The Wellington Debts Act, 1871.” The expenditure, as your Honor is aware, was to a large extent made by the Colonial Government, but sums amounting in all to £39,688 10s. 6d. were paid to the Provincial Treasurer for disbursement, and he also received two small sums as recoveries for over-payments, amounting together to £7 11s. 6d. The expenditure of this money was for a time kept apart from the ordinary accounts of the province, but subsequently portions of the expenditure were blended with those accounts. I am happy, but certainly not surprised, to say that the close analysis of the accounts which this involved showed their perfect correctness; but as I did not obtain the special accounts relating to these moneys until after the general statements had been made up, some alterations had to be made in those statements to embody these additional accounts. It also became necessary to remove a sum of £3,615 5s. 2d., which appears in the published accounts as one of these special receipts, to the ordinary revenue of the province, it being simply a reimbursement of amounts previously paid out of revenue. The receipts and expenditure that had been made outside of the ordinary accounts have also been brought in and incorporated with the other portions of the accounts. I must add that the large sums raised and disbursed by the Colonial Government under the same Act do not appear in these statements; and, as these were principally for items that appear under the heading of “Loans and Overdrafts,” that class of receipt and expenditure would be materially altered if the payments now referred to could be brought in.
To the general statement I have taken upon myself to add two subordinate statements, showing in detail the items of expenditure included in the two first columns of the general statement under the headings “Departmental” and “Public Works.” The compilation of these statements necessarily increased the labour greatly, but I trust that your Honor will consider that the details are sufficiently interesting to justify the labour they have caused. It has also had this advantage, that the classification of the expenditure for public works has enabled me to exhibit more details in the Summary than otherwise would have been practicable.
I beg to forward with the statements the “rough” copies and compilations that I was obliged to make. These are of no apparent value; but, should your Honor desire to have my work tested, whoever may have to do this will find that these jottings may save him from having to write such a mass of figures as I have found unavoidable.
I feel that I ought to apologize for the length of time that I have taken, but I trust that the magnitude of the work, and the very fragmentary portions of time I have been able to devote to it, will be accepted as my excuse.
I have, &c.,
His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esq.,
Superintendent.
J. Woodward.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1876, No 14
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Classified Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of the Province of Wellington
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💰 Finance & RevenueFinancial Report, Provincial Accounts, Receipts, Expenditure, Wellington
- William Fitzherbert (Esquire), Recipient of the financial report
- J. Woodward