RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE1878-79.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1401, 12 August 1878, Page 3

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE—--1878-79.

' The following table shows the estimated receipts of the Consolidated Fund for the current financial year : Obdinart Revenoe— Eaised by Taxation: £ £ Customs 1,320,000 Stamps 170,000 1 1,400,000 Eeueipts for Services rendered: Railways 710,000 Postal 121500 Telegraphic 76,000 Judicial 50.000 Laud Transfer 32,500 Registration and other fees 32,715 Marine 22,400 Miscellaneous 67,000 Territorial Revenue— Land sales 1,100,000 Land sales on deferred payments 22,000 .„„„„„ Depasturing licenses and assessments ... 106,277 Miscellaneous ... 1,400 Eeckipts Speciai.lt Afplicable— Amount required, out of the surplus land revenue of 1877, to provHe for arrears of surveys : Hawke's Bay 4,512 Canterbury 30,000 ■ 34,51^ Provincial Liabilities: Balance on 30th June, 1878 5,733 Receivable from loan of 1877 80,000 Receivable from "Welling, ton Trust and Loan Company, under arrangement with late Provincial Government 15,970 Receivable from Corporation of Wellington for reclaimed land ... 89,000 Miscellaneous 5,000 . Revenue Pataiue to Local Bodies— Goldfields revenue 47,000 Gold duty 38,000 License fees, &c 65,000 Proceecs of sales of lands specially set apart ... ... 50,000 Total rovenuo and receipts ... £4,262,037 In the table attached to the financial statement the above is summarised as follows : Ordinary revenue raised by taxation ..-. £1,490,000 ..Ordinary revenue for services rendered 1,112,115 - revenue... 'STa'Sik Receipts specially applicable 2 ™knn Revenue payable to local bodies ... 200,000 £4,262,037 The following table gives a summary of estimated expenditure from the Consolidated Fund for the year ending June 30th, 1879 : For Services Chargeable : On Consolidated Fund— £ S. d. Civil list 29,750 0 0 Permanent charges 1,780,017 15 9 Liabilities and engagements .... 115,440 0 0 Class I.—Public departments ... 188,570 19 2 Class ll.—Law and justice 143,909 7 4 Class lll—Postal and telegraphic 243,954 0 0 Class IV.—Customs 40,906 13 1 Class V—Marine 45,999 14 10 Class VI -Education 217,370 0 0 Class Vll.—Native 31,857 5 0 Class Vlll—Militia and volunteers 24,678 12 0 Class IX.—Constabulary 137,774 10 0 Class X.—Railways 487,203 2 10 Class XI. —Public domains and buildings 32,3tl 4 0 Class Xll.—Crown lands, survey, and goldfields 231,219 15 0 ClasH Xlll.—Miscellaneous 357,9.26 9 C Total Consolidated Fund ... fit, 108,949 8 6 This table, which is taken from the estimates, contains tho item £115,410 for " liabilities and engagements," which is not shown in Tuble P attached to tho Financial Statoment, which table also purports to show the estimated expenditure of the Consolidated Eund for tho financial year. With this exception, and the addition to the table last printed above, of the fees, duties, &c, payable to local bodies, £200,000, the two statements tally.