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Table No. 7. STATEMENT showing the Total Ways and Means of the Public Works Fund and the Total Net Expenditure to the 31st March, 1891.

WAYS AND MEANS. NET EXPENDITURE. £ b. a. Loans :— Immigration and Public Works Loan* 1870 Immigration and Public Works Loan, 1873 Immigration and'Publie Works Loan, 1874 General Purposes Loan Act, 1873 New Zealand Loan Act, 1876 New Zealand Loan Act, 1877 New Zealand Loan Act, 1879 New Zealand Loan Act, 1882 New Zealand Colonial Inscribed StockLoanAct, 1882 North Island Main Trunk Railway Loan Act, 1882 .. New Zealand Loan Act, 1884 New Zealand Loan Act, 1S86 District Railways Purchasing Acts, 1885-86 New Zealand Loan Act, 1888 .. .. .. £ s. d. £ a. d. £ s. a. 4,000,000 0 0 2,000,000 0 0 4,000,000 0 0 750, C00 0 0 750,000 0 0 2,200,000 0 0 5,000,000 0 0 3,000.000 0 0 250,000 0 0 1.000,000 0 0 1,500,000 0 0 1,325,000 0 0 432,487 7 11 1,000,000 0 0 Expenditure on — Immigration Public Works, Departmental Railways, including Surveys of New Lines Roads Land Purchases Waterworks on Goldfields Telegraph Extension Public Buildings Lighthouses, Harbour Works, and Defences Contingent Defence Rates on Native Lands.. Thermal Springs Charges and Expenses of raising Loans Coal Mines Interest and Sinking Fund 2,145,150 8 0 352,169 16 2 14,104,093 1 9 3,598,162 18 5* 1,196,478 12 6 561,100 18 11 606,047 15 9 1.780,785 7 1 881,817 12 11 429,718 19 3 58,013 13 1 14,335 5 10 1,021,472 0 9 10,835 8 0 I 218,500 0 0 ! 27,207,487 7 11 26,979,282 4 5 Receipts in Aid :— Contributions of Canterbury Province for Railways .. Stamp Duties to 31st December, 1S76 Transfer from Confiscated Lands Liabilities Account Proceeds of Railway Material handed over to Cook County Council Special Receipts under section 9 of " The Railways Construction Act, 1878 " Special Receipts under " The Elleemere Lake Lands Act, 188S " Sinking Funds released .. 50,000 0 0 264,657 16 4 19,963 1 3 4,963 7 4 Balance on 31st March, 1891, — Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of officers of the Government Investments , i 00,616 3 0 12,404 15 2 8,311 17 9 72,911 10 9 33,590 13 7 548,620 0 0 655,122 4 4 26,917 0 10 ■ £27,634,404 8 9 27,634,404 8 9 * Has been reduced by £25,000 received under section 31 of " Tlie Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886."