THE YEAR IN FIGURES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 126, 19 May 1908, Page 4

THE YEAR IN FIGURES.

REVENUE AND expenditure, financial operations. Sir .loseph Ward, speaking before the Liberal and Labor Federation on April •27th, announced tile financial results of the vear IUU7-1008, which showed a surplus'of miMd Hs sd. The Prime Minister then disclosed the increase <n shrinkage of revenue in each department of the State. The financial operations are fully set out in Fridays "(Jazette. RECEIPTS. .C Balance forward .. . • Ordinary revenue .. -- H,Kt1i,042 Territorial revenue •• •• 280.f>03 Sinking funds freed .. !)24.001l Debentures issued .. .. KetoverieS H> 1143 Total £11.001,314 EXPENDITURE. e* Permanent appropirations .. 3.128.021 Annaul appropriations ..' r>,05">.343 Transfer to P. W. Fund .. 800,000 Debentures redeemed .. 024,001) Debpitures renewed .. .. 88.").500 .Surplus 7(57,840 Total .-£11.001.314 TREASURY BILLS. Oil December .'list, Co"), 000 worth fell due. They were renewed, and ,£1.">0.000 ■worth were paid oIT, leaving £400,000 outstanding.

•STATE FORESTS. The rents amounted to £3OS3 and other revenue to £.15,174. The balance has been reduced to £8870; LOCAL BODIES. The revenue received amounted to ■ C7!1,!144 ( £22,070 from endowments »f land, £30.084 from gold duty, nnd £IS,247 from goldfields revenue). £80.0.72 was paid ove r to local bodies, and £40,743 was paid in advances. The balance is £15,104.

The sun) of £139.071 was expended in the ac|uirement of land under tile Maori Land Settlement Art.

The Advances to Settlers Office paid out C 590,3.1(! during tin- year in advances on mortgage. Tlie amount advanced to workers under the Act of lftOfi was £!)4.0!)7. Local bodies received loans amounting to £.136,420.

Tlie balance (if tile Scenery Preservation Account is now £8103*; .£10.00(1 worth of debentures were issued during the year. The expenditure was The credit of the Cheviot Estate Account has increased to £48,314. Rents £RB72 tr<l l ° CN ' 2!)1 ' an ' l ' ntl ''' eSi: