8.—5.

ACCOUNT for the Year ended 31st March, 1898, compared with the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1897.

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1896-97. :. £ s. d. 1,225 0 0 3,046 0 0 3,190 0 0 1,550 0 0 730 0 0 6,000 0 0 1,150 0 0 5,733 0 0 1,760 0 0 4,701 0 0 2,412 0 0 Grants to — Counties— Cheviot Clifton Cook .•. Hawera Hawke's Bay Horowhenua Hutt Kiwitea Manawatu Ohinemuri Pahiatua Patea Pohangina Rangitikei Raglan Stratford Waipawa Wairarapa North .. .. .. Wairoa Waitotara Waitaki £ s. d. 1,100 0 0 100 0 0 3,178 0 0 3,898 0 0 6,000 0 0 470 0 0 9,365 0 0 4,800 0 0 5,000 0 0 750 0 0 £ s. d. 6,000 0 0 580 0 0 600 0 0 5,410 0 0 3,868 0 0 175 0 0 1,360 0 0 50 0 0 700 0 0 1,000 0 0 264 0 0 / 200 0 0 38,650 0 0 100 0 0 1,800 0 0 2,558 0 0 300 0 0 2,500 0 0 610 0 0 165 0 0 1,970 0 0 1,778 0 0 100 0 0 1,030 0 0 2,890 0 0 290 0 0 1,055 0 0 Road Boards— Arai Arch Hill Egmont Eketahuna Featherston Fitzherbert Frankley Manawatu Manchester Manganui Masterton Mauku Mauriceville Moa Otaki Parihaka Pouawa Seatoun Taratahi-Carterton Te Horo Turanga Upper Taueru Waimate Waipipi Waiwakaiho Wirokino 47,715 0 0 500 0 0 463 0 0 250 0 0 754 0 0 1,670 0 0 800 0 0 775 0 0 1,569 0 0 550 0 0 400 0 0 40 0 0 2,000 0 0 267 0 0 670 0 0 50 0 0 388 0 0 1,772 0 0 300 0 0 1,122 0 0 650 0 0 650 0 0 995 0 0 20,026 0 0 395 0 0 160 0 0 300 0 0 2,000 0 0 Boroughs— Dannevirke Feilding Pahiatua Patea Petone 13,755 0 0 2,000 0 0 2,800 0 0 '2,855 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 Town Boards— Clyde Stratford 4,800 0 0 300 0 0 570 0 0 3,000 0 0 200 0 0 280 0 0 400 0 0 Drainage Boards— Akaaka Aorangi Land Manawatu Land Otakia Sluggish River Tepuke Land 493 0 0 1,495 0 0 3,000 0 0 200 0 0 606 0 0 4,050 0 0 5,788 0 0 152 0 0 Unauthorised— Pohangina County Wainono Drainage Board 2,899 0 0 75,257 0 0 66,133 0 0 Appropriations,— Vote 113.—Roads to open up Crown lands Balance at end of year,— Cash in the Public Account Advances in hands of Officers of the Government, — In the Colony 31,016 18 6 18,769 11 8 3 10 1 21,826 19 11 151 3 0 21,978 2 11 Totals £97,153 8 7 £116,004 14 7