LIABILITIES (ABSTRACT OF, ON 31st MARCH, 1896).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1896 Session I, B-21

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1896. NEW ZEALAND.

LIABILITIES (ABSTRACT OF, ON 31st MARCH, 1896).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly in compliance with Section 38 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1891."

Audit Office, 11th June, 1896. The Controller and Auditor-General has the honour to submit to the House of Eepresentatives the Abstract of Liabilities on the 31st March last, in compliance with the 38th section of " The Public Eevenues Act, 1891." The Honourable the Speaker of the James Edwaed FitzGeeald, House of Eepresentatives. Controller and Auditor-General.

Summary of the Liabilities of the Government of New Zealand on the 31st March, 1896, prepared by the Audit from the Returns of the several Departments, in accordance with the 38th Section of "The Public Revenues Act, 1891."

Class. Department. tounfc. Consolidated Fund. £ s. a. £ s. d. Civil List. 350 0 0 Minister of Justice—Native Permanent Charges. Minister of Justice—Civil Service Act Colonial Secretary —"The Public Eevenues Act, 1891 " Colonial Treasurer—Subsidies to Local Bodies " The Land Act, 1892" ... 153 2 1,170 2,553 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 1 3,878 7 1 Annual Appropriations. I. II. III. Legislative —House of Eepresentatives Colonial Secretary —Miscellaneous ... Colonial Treasurer —Miscellaneous ... „ Land- and Income-tax ... 3 9 20 0 0 0 15 17 7 3,876 19 10 IV. Minister of Justice—Miscellaneous... „ Prisons 23 9 0 3,940 0 34 13 0 2 V. VI. Postmaster-General—Miscellaneous Commissioner of Customs—Miscellaneous „ Marine... 3,974 13 2 15,912 0 0 261 1 3,675 0 8 0 VII. VIII. Commissioner of Stamps—Miscellaneous Minister of Education—Lunacy, &c. „ Labour 3,936 1 8 219 2 7 1,054 2 214 6 0 9 IX. 1,268 8 9 Minister of Mines—Geological „ Miscellaneous ... 15 10 800 0 5 0 X. XI. XII. XIII. XV. XVI. Minister for Agriculture —Miscellaneous Minister for Railways—Miscellaneous Minister for Public Works —Public Buildings, &c. Minister of Defence—Capitation Minister of Lands—Miscellaneous ... Colonial Treasurer—Bates on Crown Lands ... 815 10 5 2,037 4 3 52,542 7 4 108 14 4 4,000 0 0 6,659 0 0 100 0 0 t Total Consolidated Fund ... £99,717 16 0

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Summary of the Liabilities of the Government, &c. — continued.

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Class. Department. Ami Hint. Public Works Fund. Part I. £ s. d. £ s. a. III. Till. IX. Minister for Public Works—Eailways „ Public Buildings... „ Lighthouses, &c... 80,606 17 0 33,044 18 3 6,573 19 2 120,225 14 5 16,509 15 5 18,377 1 7 15,265 10 10 4,000 0 0 110 0 0 IV. V. VII. X. Minister of Lands—Eoads, &c. Minister of Mines—Eoads, &c. Goldfields Postmaster-General —Telegraph Extension ... Colonial Treasurer —Bates on Native Lands ... II. Part II. 16,391 5 11 Minister for Public Works —Eailways, &c. ... Land fob Settlement Account. 3,000 0 157,171 19 0 9 Minister of Lands „ Purchases of Estates XIX. 160,171 19 9 Cheviot Estate. Minister of Lands—Eoad-works 130 0 0 Lands Impeovement Account. 113,988 2 6 Minister of Lands—Eoads, &c. Native Land Puechase Account. 25,768 13 3 Minister of Lands—Surveys and Eoads Government Advances to Settlers Office. Management Account. Colonial Treasurer •— Amount advanced by Treasury under Section 9 of " The Government Advances to Settlers Act, 1894 " Colonial Treasurer —Government Insurance ... 20,500 0 0 1,719 0 6 Summary. £513,157 4 2 Consolidated Fund Public Works Fund—Part I. Part II. 174,488" 2 3 16,391 5 11 ■ 99,717 16 0 Land for Settlements Account Cheviot Estate ... Lands Improvement Account Native Land Purchase Account Government Advances to Settlers Office Management Account Government Insurance 190,879 8 160,171 19 130 0 113,988 2 25,768 13 20,500 0 2 9 0 6 3 0 1,719 0 6 £612,875 0 2