PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
RETURNS FOR FINANCIAL YEAR
BIG INCREASE IN REVENUE
THE YEAR'S SURPLUS
The public accounts for the quarter ended March 31, 1920, are published in yesterday's official "Gazette." These "figures complete the accounts for the 1919-20 financial year. They show that the revenue amounted to .£26,081,340 and the expenditure to .£23,781,925. The excess of revenue over expenditure was .£2,299,415. ORDINARY REVENUE. £ Customs 4.630,32* Stamp and Death Duties 3,344,933 Postal and Telegraph 2,096.756 Land Tax 1,557.903 Income Tax 6,369,765 Beer Duty 355,403 Railways. 5,766.015 Registration and other fees ... 176,755 Marino .'.-.. 42,646 Miscellaneous 1,204.865 Territorial Revenue 213.757 Other receipts 5,331 Revenue for 1919-20 26,081.340 Revenue for 1918-19 22,352,372 Increase 3,728,908 ORDINARY EXPENDITURE. Permanent Charges. Civil List 26.549 Interest anci Sinking Fund ... 7,249,426 Under Special Acts 4,113,486 11,389,461 Annual Appropriations. Wialativo 44.500 Finance 6 189,061 Postal and Telegraph 1,941.493 Railways ; 4,305,965 Public Buildings, etc 164,141 Native 28.456 •Ti.stice 587,989 Mines 36.637 Internal Affairs 336,356 Hospitals 556,899 Tourists 68,858 Defence 502,465 Customs 227,474 T.:iWr 40.016 Lands and Survev 68,364 Valuation and Electoral 196,241 Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce 818.566 Education 2,031.824 Services not provided for 77,149 Expenditure 1919-20 23.781.925 Expenditure 1918-1P 18,073,599 Increase 5,108,326 BALANCES. Balance on April 1, 1919 15.2,39,56) Receipts 20,031,340 41.320,961 Less 23,781,925 Balance March 31, 1920— Cash in Public Account 2,127,5.50 Imprests outstanding 231,174 Investment Account 15,180,250 17.538,976 PUBLIC WORKS EXPENDITURE. Departmental ■ 121,434 Railways 748,048 Buildings ;. 469,194 Lighthouses 3,497 Tourist resorts 6,193 Immigration Ur. 62,566 Roads and bridges '... 388,562 Development of mining 1,172 Telegraph extension 240,379 Contingent defence 10,186 Lands improvement 2,964 Irrisation and water-supply ... 34,115 Plant, material, etc 47^681 Services not provided for 242 2,020,713 POSITION OE PUBLIC WORKS FUND. Balance on April 1. 1919 186.198 ReceiptsLoan money, Act, 1918, No. 2rSection 29 1,940,000 Other receipts 1.592 Recoveries on account of expenditure of previous year? 112,864 llDdcr Appropriations 2.020,713 Balance March 31, 1920— Cash 218.765 Imprests 736 219,501
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 208, 28 May 1920, Page 8
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309PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 208, 28 May 1920, Page 8
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