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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, 1898.

Return showing the Amount of Light-dues collected during the Year ended the 31st March, 1898.

Return showing the Amount of Pilotage, Port Charges, &c., collected during the Year ended the 31st March, 1898.

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Name of Lighthouse. Cost of Erection. Pencarrow Heaa Nelson Tiri-Tiri .. Mana Island* Taiaroa Head Godley Head Dog Island Farewell Spit Nugget Point Cape Campbell Manukau Head Cape Foulwind Brothers Portland Island Moeraki Centre Island Puysegur Point Cape Maria van Diemen Akaroa Head Cape Saunders Cape Egmontf Moko Hinou Waipapapa Point Ponui Passage} Kaipara Head French Pass Cuvier Island Stephens Island Cape Palliser Cost of telegraph cable to Tiri-Tiri Miscellaneous and unallocated £ s. a. 6,422 0 4 2,824 8 9 5,747 7 2 5,513 0 1 4,923 14 11 4,705 16 i. 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 6,243 16 1 1,085 19 6 1,322 2 2 Total .. £173,895 14 7 * Light discontinued; moved to Cape Bgmont. ■f Cost of iron tower, lantern, and apparatus, which were renoved from Mana Island, is not included in this. t Built by Provincial Government of Auckland; cost not mown in Marine Department.

Port. Amount collected. Auckland Onehunga .. Whangarei Whangaroa Eussell 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 Invereargill £ S. d. 4,833 0 31 78 8 8 78 16 0 5 19 11 1 40 1 3 12 8 8 3 0 170 2 11 114 3 7 33 10 3 28 3 10 T| 288 5 9 •"! 460 19 9 112 18 8 78 11 2 91 2 7 6 11 10 4,906 8 0 10 12 6 233 8 6 322 1 2 384 14 10 167 7 4 3 8 11 1,789 14 5 345 3 2 69 15 5 1,495 7 7 1,693 5 11 Total £17,851 8 7

Name of Port. Pilotage. Port Charges, &c. Total. Auckland* Oneliunga Hokianga Kaipara Thames* Gisborne* Wairoa* Napier* New Plymouth* Waitara* Wanganui* Patea* Foxton Wellington* Wairau Nelson Hokitika* Lyttelton* Timaru* Oamaru* Dunedin* Invercargill* .. Bluff* Biverton* £ s. d. 176 17 1 6 0 6 4 18 0 195 15 3 93 6 8 85 15 5 93 9 6 647 15 4 62 5 6 74 3 0 442 3 4 26 5 9 126 19 6 327 0 0 106 19 0 600 2 10 £ s. d. 2,519 18 2 80 8 9 879 10 5 737 16 4 2 4 3 2,826 14 7 113 19 4 76 3 9 6 3 3 £ s. d. 2,696 15 3 86 9 3 4 18 0 1,075 5 8 93 6 8 823 11 9 95 13 9 3,474 9 11 176 4 10 150 6 9 442 3 4 32 9 0 126 19 6 7,974 1 4 106 19 0 1,249 2 2 t29 1 8 7,716 3 4 2,527 13 10 fl,347 3 2 9,896 8 7 18 5 10 4,005 6 8 4 16 0 7,647' 1 4 4,246 19 8 657 5 9 648 19 4 29 1 8 3,469 3 8 1,870 8 1 1,347 3 2 4,383 14 5 18 5 10 1,431 17 0 4 16 0 5,492 14 2 2,573' 9 8 Totals .. 16,040 5 11 44,133 15 3 28,093 9 4 * Harbour Board revenue. t Tonnage rate on cargo.

Nature of Beceipts. Amount. Shipping and Seamen's Acts :— Pees 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 Pilotage and port charges Sundry receipts under Harbours Acts Sea-fisheries Act Sundries £ s. d. 1,563 18 9 1,331 0 0 26 0 0 250 10 0 17,851 8 7 77 3 6 2,649 13 7 238 13 0 224 13 6 153 9 7 Total .. .. £ 24,366 10 6