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STATEMENT of the EXPENDITURE of the LAND FUND ACCOUNT under SPECIAL ACTS of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY for the FINANCIAL YEAR ended 31st March, 1892.

STATEMENT in Detail of the NET EXPENDITURE under the DEPARTMENTAL VOTE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES of the LAND FUND ACCOUNT for the FINANCIAL YEAR ended 31st March, 1892.

DETAIL STATEMENT of EXPENDITURE under Vote 69, "RATES on CROWN LANDS," for the FINANCIAL YEAR ended 31st March, 1892.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1891-92.

LAND FUND ACCOUNT. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. a. Permanent Appeopeiations :— Payment op One-thibd of Peoceeds of Sales of Land on Defeebed Payments undee " The Land Act, 1885," Section 127, to — County,— Sounds 2 10 0 Road Boards, — Alfredton Knapdale Rakaia Ruataniwha Waiwakaiho 36 17 9 5 10 10 I 189 2 1 65 8 10 0 18 8 Amounts paid over to Receivers of Land Revenue, Local Bodies' Deposit Account .. 297 18 2 17,128 6 10 " New Plymouth Harbour Board Endowment Act, 1874 " — 25 per cent, of amount derived from land sales " Naval and Military Settlers' and Volunteers' Land Act, 1888"— Value of remission certificate 17,428 15 0 4,416 6 1 30 0 0 Total .. £21,875 1 1

CLASS XIV.—MINISTER OF LANDS:— Vote No. 68—Miscellaneous Seevices: — Item 1—Fees to members of Waste Lands Boards Item 2—Interest on £2,000, part purchase-money of Stewart Island Item 3—Half of £250, contribution towards sending dairy expert to England in charge of dairy produce Item 4—Baths, Hanmer Springs Item 5—Rent of endowments, Auckland ana Parnell, opened under Village-settlement Regulations Item 6—Contingencies, forests and plantations £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. a. 997 11 3 149 6 8 125 0 0 52 12 10 337 5 7 542 12 4 Total not expenditure, Vote No. 68 £2,204 8 8

Rates on Obown Lands :— Counties, — Lake .. Manawatu Waimate Wairarapa North Wairoa Boroughs,— Gisborne Marton .. .. ... Masterton Palmerston North Town Board, — Manaia Road Boards, — Collingwood Onewhero Parihaka Pelorus Waitara West Waitotara-Momahaki River Board, — Lower Wairau Harbour Boards, — Gisborne Oamaru £ s. d. 148 13 6 6 4 3 29 14 8 87 13 9 10 1 10 12 17 10 5 0 0 12 0 9 48 15 0 £ s. d. 282 8 0 78 13 7 2 3 10 £ s. d. 80 9 8 0 17 5 1 19 5 95 2 5 0 7 7 5 16 0 184 12 6 8 18 3 479 1 4 229 2 6 708 3 10 Less refuna of over-payment maae to Mount Eden Road Board in previous years 1,265 0 0 62 10 0 £1,202 10 0