OUR FINANCES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1744, 9 May 1906, Page 2

OUR FINANCES.

net SURPLUS £788.795.

NO TAGS THIS TIME

(Special to Timeß)^ WelliogtoD, last night,

The accounts for the year have been certified to by the Dsputy Auditor and : Controller-General, and there aro no tags Tho acoounts wjl appear in detail in the next Gazette. The following are some qf the particulars : Results for the year 1905-06 : Net surplus £788,795, made up as follows—Receipts, revonoe £7,581359, sinking fund accretions £65,000, other reoeipts £740, total £7,650,099 ; Expenditure, pormaoent appropriations £2,870,107, annual appropriations £4,252 233, total £7,122,340; excess of receipts ovor oxpondtture £527,759; balanoo 31st March, 1905, £761,036 ; transferred to publio works fund £500,000; bslanoe from last year £261,036; balance 3L-t March, 1906. £788,795. Revenue results, 1905 6 : Estimate for year £7,402,600; aotual reosipts £7,584,359; excess of revenue over estimate £181,759 ; compared with previous year—Revenue 1904 5, £7,382,870 ; revenue 1905 6 £7,584 359 ; increase £301,489 ; revenue for 1900 6 compared with oeti mate—Actual revenue 1905-6 £7 584.359 ; estimated revenue 1905-5 £7,402.600; cxoess of revenue £181,759.

| Tho statement t-bon goes on to givo details under the various headings, ehowiog anticipated and aotual revenue and ex penditute ] 30th April, 19C6, Public Works fund 1905 6. —Results: Balance from last year, £861,670. Receipts: Loan money £850,851, transfer from revenue jGoOO.COO. other receipts £3189, total rrcuipts £2,215,710. Expenditure : Appropriations d61,725,5§J, other charges £B2l, total expenditure £1,723,411 balance at 31st Marob, 1906, £492,299 ; balance of 1905 loan to receive £182,086; available public works money lo start the current yesr with (1906 7) £674 335.