DOMINION'S BALANCE-SHEET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 92, 14 May 1909, Page 2

DOMINION'S BALANCE-SHEET.

FOR THE I'AST FINANCIAL YEAR AX IMPROVED POSITION. l>y lelcgiapli,— Association, Wellington, Lust Xiglit. l'igures showing 1 lie Dominion's (inuncial transactions during the year ended •March Hint lust, with hie figured of me previous year fur comparison, appear in to-night's Uazette, Following is the summary, shillings and pence beirtg omitted!— RECEIPTS. Balance at beginning of year 1008-1), £707,84!) (11)07-8, C7l < ,825 J*. Ordinary Revenue £8,778,.128 ( £8,700,342). Territorial Revenue £222,850 (£;> 80,- , Debentures issued, £105,000 (£285,500). Recoveries in respect of expenditure lof previous years £7OO ( £8042). Debentures renewed, £438 (nil). .Siuking funds set free, nil ( £1)24,000). Totals: 1008-!), £0,1)25,272; 1001-8, £11,001,314. EXPENDITURE, Permanent appropriations, 1008-0, £3,210,030 ( £IOO7-8, £3,128,022). Annual ' appropriations, £5,575,483 ( £5,085,343). Revenues transferred to Public Works Fund, £BOO,OOO ( £300,000). Debentures renewed, £105,000 ( £385,- . 000). Debentures redeemed, nil ( £024,000). H.ilance at end of veav, £184,020 ( £707,840). Debentures matured and renewed under the Dairy Industry Act, £438 (nil). iTtotals: 1008-0, £0,035,272; 1007-8, £11,001,314. ORDINARY' AND TKIiKITOIiIAL REVENUE. Details of tlie ordinary anil territorial revenue are as under:— Customs, £2,801,248 (1007-8, £3,J02,504). Stamps, including postal and telegraph cash receipts, £1,501,327 ( £1,550,033). Land tax, £004,000 (£537,840). ■lncome-tax, £321,044 ( £204,004), lieer duty, £110,214 ( £112,072). Kailways, £2,018,507 ( £2,(05,505). Registration and other fees, £117,001 (£120,105). Marine, £43,815 (£42,217). •Miscellaneous, £204,200 ( £218,342). Territorial revenue; Cash land sales, C>5,370 ( £45,233); deferred payment land sales, £1,782,225; pastoral runs rents and miscellaneous, £105,004 (£242,115). Totals: . 1008-0, £0,001,183; 1007-8, £0,055,045.

THE LAST QUARTKR. Wellington, -Last Night. The imports into New Zealand during the quarter ended March -list last totalled £4;22(i.727, compared with £4,8*14,•}!)."> for the corresponding quarter of 1008. The exports for the same quarter of 100!) were £7,031,134, and for 11)08, £0,331,1)27.

WITHOUT A BLEMISH, THE COUNTRY'S ACCOUNTS. Christchurch, Last Night. The Prime Minister informed a representative of the Press this evening that the whole of the public accounts for the financial year 1908-9 had beeu passed by the Audit Department and were to be returned to the Minister for Finance this evening, He added that again, as was the ease last year and the year before, they were 'being returned without any comment of any sort and with no "tags." It was' very gratifying to know that the whole of the year's extensive operations has passed the ordeal of the Controller and Auditor-General's , office, and had been found without- a I blemish.