COLONY'S BALANCE-SHEET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8105, 9 May 1906, Page 2

COLONY'S BALANCE-SHEET.

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. £764,385 AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC WORICS. By the ctmi'lcsy of the Premier ire iire iu receipt of :i telegraphic digest of the accounts for tlie year, which have been certified toby the Deputy-Auditor and Controller-General. There are no tags. Tlie accounts will appear in detail in the next liazatte. The following is a precis of the particular results for the year 1905-6: —Net surplus £788,794, made up as follows : Receipts: Rovenuo, £7,581,359: Sinking Fund accretions, £65,000 i other receipts, £740; total, £7,650,009.

Expenditure ; Permanent appropriations, £2,870,107 ; annual appropriations, £4,252,233; total, £7,122,340.

Excess of receipts over expenditure, | £527,759. Balance 31st March, 1905, £761,036 ; transferred to Public Works Fund, £500,000; leaving balance from last year, £261,036; balance at 31st March, 1906, £788,795. Revenue results.—Estimate ior the year, £7,402,600; actual receipts, £7,584,359. Excess of revenue over estimate, £181,759. Compared with previous year, revenue 1904-5, £7,282, 870; revenue 1905-6. £7,584,359; increase—£3ol,4B9.

Statement of the actual receipts of the Consolidated Fund (revenue account) for the financial year. Receipts revenue account: Customs, £2,697,411; Railways, £2,338,418; Stamps, £1,201,263; Land 'Tax, £385,756; Income Tax, £261,815; Beer duty, £98,135 ; Registration and other fees, £108,222; Marine, £36,739; Miscellaneous, £195,811; Territorial revenue, £260,789; total, £7,584,359, an increase over the revenue for the year 1901-5 of £301,489. Expenditure, 1905-6. Appropriations:—Amouut appropriated on permanent charges £2,851,298, annual appropriations £4,342,811, additional appropriations for railways £98,418, total £7,292,560. Amount spent: Permanent charges, £2,870,107; annual appropriations, £4,252,233, total £7,122,349 ; showing a saving on the estimate of £170,220 on 30th April, 1906. Comparative statement expenditure, 1905-6, compared with 1901-5. Expended 1905-6: Permanent appropriations, £2,870,107 j annual appropriations, L 1,262,233; total L 7,122,340. Exponded 1904-5 : Permanent appropriations, L 2,670,972 ; annual appropriations, L 3,901,930; total L 6,635,902. Increased expenditure L 186,438 as under: Increaso in permanent charges. L 199,135; increase in annual appropriation, L 287.303.

Actual expenditure for the year ended .31st March, 1908—Oil Revenue account: Permanent. Appropriations, Civil List, L 38,943 ; Interest and Sinking Fund, L 2,087,204; under Special Acts, L 310,921; Subsidies paid to Local Bodies, £90,662; Territorial revenue, £38,913; Endowments, £59,499; Old Age Pension!, £253,962; total, £2,870,107. Annual appropriations: Legislative, £25,094; Colonial Secretary, £112,738; Public Health, £23,215; Industries and Commerce and Tourist, £68,132; Colonial Treasurer, £40,479; Old Age Pensions,

.£1,758; Minister of Justice, £143,874 • Crown Law Department, £2,913 j Postmaster General, £576,810; Commissioner of Trade and Customs, £47,127 j Marine and Harbors etc., £57,837; Printing and Stationary > £•13,816; Commissioner of Stamps, £30,731; Education Department, £697,957 ; Lunacy and Charitable Aid Department, £89,878 j Department of Labor, £12,220; Minister of Mines, £23,314; Minister tor Agriculture, £115,816 ; Working railways, £1,594,919; Minister for Public Works, £26,880; Defence Department, £159,459; Police Department, £135,407 ; Department of Lands and Survey, £177,626; Valuation Department, £30,272; services not provided for, £7,921. A comparative statement of the actual exp«nditure ot tho Consolidated Funds (revonue account) for the financial year ended 31st March, 1906, compared with the year 1904-5, shows: Permament appropriations, Civil List incroaso, £4,784; Interest and Sinking Fund, increase £93,475; under special acts, increase £24,547; subsidios paid ta Local Bodies, increase £7,022; territorial reronue, increase £8,153 ; endowments, increase, £1,069; Old Age Pensions, increase £59.988; total increase, £199,135. Annual appropriations : Legislative, increase £lB5 ; Colonial Secretary, incroase £43,209 : Public Health, decrease . £8,558 ; Industries and Commerce and Tourist, increase £5,653; Colonial Treasurer, docroase £510; Old Ago Pensions, incroaso £821; Minister of Justice, increase £1,106; Crown Law Department, increase £420; Postmaster General, increase £19,275; Commissioner of Trade and Customs, increase £6,513 ; Marine and Harbors etc., increase £3,533; Printing and Stationary, increase £1,724; Commissioner of Stamps, decrease £4O; Education Department, increase £62,020; Lunacy and Charitable Aid Department, increase £11,405; Department of Labor, increase £l,3jte; Minister of Minos, increase £1,825; Minister for Agriculture, increase £3,185; Working railway, increase £123,092; Dofonco Department, de. crease £2,879; Minister for Public Works, increase £612 ; Police Department, increase £4,731; Department of Lands and Survey, incroase £28,184: Valuation Department, increase £965 ; services not provided for, increase £1,706; grand net total increase in expenditure £448,505. An analysis of tho increase in ex. penditnre in 1905-6 as compared with the previous year 1904-5, shows it is accounted for 'as followslnterest, £93,000; iubsidies to Hospitals and payments to Local Bodies, £35,000; Old Age Pensions, £60,000; Electoral, £50,000; Education, £70,000; Railways, £124,000; Post and Telegraphs, £111,000; Lands and Survey, £28,000; Lunacy and Hospitals, £II,OOO ; Police, £4,000; Customs and Marine, £IO,OOO ; Mines, £5,000; Exhibition, £13,000 — total, £522,000. Savings were effected ■ oh : Defence, £28,000 ; Public Health. | £B,OO0 —total saving, £36,000, showing 1 an increased expenditure of L48(!,000. '

Public Works Fund. Transfers from revenue. The total amount transferred from revenue to the Public Works Fund since 1891 was L1,86a,000, as follows 1891-92, 130,000 ; 1892-93, 1200,000 ; 1893-91,1250,000; 1894-95, 1250,000; 1895-96,1150,000 ; 189(5-97, L 150,000 ; 1897.98,1300,000 ; 1898-99, 1125,000; 1899-1900, L 150,000 ; 19001,1500,0001 1901-2,1500,000; 1902-3, 1200,000; 1903-1, 1350,000; UWU-S, 1000,000 ; 190§-(i, Lam),ooo—total, 14,855,000.

I'wbljc Works Fund, ilWo-G, £«.

suits—Balance from last year, LB6b 070 j receipts, loan money, L8oO,851; transfer from revenue, L 600,000 ; other receipts, L 3,189 —total receipts, L 2,215, 710. Expenditure: Appropriations, L 1,722,590 j other charges, L 821; total expenditure, L 1,823,411. Balance ill 31st March, 1906, L 192.299. Balance 1905 loan to be received, L 182.086; leaving available Public Works monoys to start the current year witli (1906-7), L 764,385.