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Return showing the Cost of Erection of the New Zealand Coastal Lighthouses.

Return showing the Fees, &c., received under the Shipping and Seamen's Acts, the Merchant Shipping Act, and for Pilotage and Port Charges, &c., during the Year ended the 31st March, 1897.

Return showing the Amount of Light-dues collected during the Year ended the 31st March, 1897.

Return showing the Amount of Pilotage, Port Charges, &c., collected during the Year ended the 31st March, 1897.

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Name of Lighthouse. Cost of Erection. 'encarrow Head kelson ?iri-Tiri /[ana Island* ?aiaroa Head lodley Head )og Island farewell Spit Tugget Point !ape Campbell lanukau Head 'ape Foulwind Jrothers 'ortland Island loeraki !entre Island 'uysegur Point 'ape Maria van Diemen ikaroa Head Jape Saunders 'ape Egmontf loko Hinou Vaipapapa Point .. 'onui Passage} Caipara Head french Pass iuvier Island itephens Island lost of telegraph cable to Tiri-Tiri liscellaneous and unallocated £ s. d. 6,422 0 4 2,824 8 9 5,747 7 2 5,513 0 1 4,923 14 11 4,705 16 4 10,480 12 8 6,139 11 8 6,597 3 7 5,619 2 6 4,975 2 4 6,955 9 1 6,241 0 0 6,554 14 5 4,288 13 2 5,785 19 0 9,958 19 5 7,028 14 8 7,150 6 5 6,066 6 3 3,353 17 11 8,186 5 0 5,969 18 11 5,571 8 0 1,427 17 5 7,406 16 11 9,349 9 11 1,085 19 6 1,322 2 2 Total £167,651 18 6 * Light discontinued; moved to Cape Egmont. t Cost of iron tower, lantern, and apparatus, which were renoved from Mana Island, is not included in this. J Built by Provincial Government of Auckland; cost not ;nown in Marine Department.

Port. Amount collected. Auckland Onehunga Whangarei Whangaroa Russell Mongonui Hokianga Kaipara Thames Coromandel Tauranga Poverty Bay Napier New Plymouth Waitara .. ... Wanganui Patea Wellington Wairau Picton Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Bluff and Invercargill £ s. d. 4,686 3 11 75 19 6 72 1 3 4 2 1 41 3 2 0 9 5 5 17 7 139 19 5 87 10 1 41 19 9 20 12 3 294 1 1 463 14 3 102 10 2 36 4 5 85 2 2 6 3 5 3,936 3 7 12 14 11 169 7 8 312 13 3 325 19 9 187 0 4 5 0 6 1,688 4 8 247 9 10 157 2 4 1,522 17 6 1,266 17 1 Total £15,995 5 4

Name of Port. Pilotage. Port Charges, Total _ Auckland* Onehunga Hokianga Kaipa»ra ». Thames* Gisborne* Wairoa' Napier* New Plymouth* Waitara* Wanganui* Patea* Foxton Wellington* .. Wairau Nelson Hokitika* Lyttelton* Timaru* Oamaru* Dunedin* Invercargill* .. Bluff* Riverton* £ s. d. 537 0 9 £ s. d. 2,639 10 3 69 3 0 £ s. d. 3,176 11 0 69 3 0 31 15 3 111 12 2 109 0 ± 634 14 10 114 13 0 3,432 19 4 , : . 92 18 1 159 17 6 392 9 3 34 8 7 133 14 9 6,527 16 1 126 11 0 1,161 1 1 t42 10 8 7,132 0 4 2,192 10 9 tl,436 0 0 10,156 19 2 14 9 8 3,026 4 10 5 4 0 31 15 3 111 12 2 99 19 0 61 19 4 108 16 6 478 4 3 37 11 9 74 16 7 392 9 3 24 8 4 133 14 9 342 12 9 126 11 0 471 15 8 9 14 572 15 6 5 16 6 2,954 15 1 55 6 4 85 Oil 10 0 3 6,185' 3 4 3,873' 8 6 556 8 5 689 5 5 42 10 8 3,258 11 10 1,636 2 4 1,436 0 0 4,336 11 8 14 9 8 999 12 8 5 4 0 5,820' 7 6 2,02612 2 Totals .. 40,315 4 8 15,310 3 11! |25,005 0 9 * Harbour Board revenue. + Tonnage rate on cargo.

Nature of Receipts. - Amount. (hipping and Seamen's Acts :— Fees for shipping and discharge of seamen, and sale of forms Survey of steamers Measurement of ships Examination of masters, mates, and engineers Light-dues Merchant Shipping Act 'ilotage and port charges lundry receipts under Harbours Acts Sea-fisheries Act .. • ■ Sundries £ s. d. 1,390 13 6 1,097 0 0 28 15 0 169 5 0 15,995 5 4 118 14 6 1,633 17 3 202 13 0 253 13 9 116 4 4 Total .... ... £ 21,006 1 8