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No. 1—continued. ACCOUNT for the Year ended 31st March, 1899, compared with the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1898.

189 '-98. £ 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 6,000 0 0 580 0 0 600 0 0 5,410 0 0 Grants to — Counties— Ashburton Cheviot Clifton Cook Hawera Hawke's Bay Hobson Horowhenua Hutt Kiwitea Mackenzie Manawatu Ohinemuri Pahiatua Pohangina Rangitikei Raglan Stratford Tuapeka Waipa Waipawa Wairarapa North Wairarapa South Waitaki £ s. d. 4,555 0 0 1,200 0 0 1,655 0 0 6,000 0 0 350 0 0 128 0 0 5,087 0 0 850 0 0 1,250 0 0 2,000 0 0 330 0 0 6,000 0 0 1,500 0 0 £ s. d. 2,800 0 0 4,500 0 0 250 0 0 1,250 0 0 2,990 0 0 3,200 0 0 264 0 0 200 0 0 45,895 0 0 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 Road Boards— Egmont Eketahuna Featherston Fitzherbert .. Kaiti Manawatu Manchester Manganui Mangorei Masterton Mauriceville Moa Otaki Parihaka Porangahau Pouawa Seatoun Takapau Taratahi-Carterton Turanga Upper Hurford Upper Taueru Waimate Waipipi Waiwakaiho Wirokino 100 0 0 816 0 0 300 0 0 1,300 0 0 241 0 0 300 0 0 432 0 0 568 0 0 1,000 0 0 22 0 0 1,162 0 0 1,790 0 0 3,000 0 0 40 0 0 2,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 496 0 0 1,920 0 0 50 0 0 700 0 0 30 0 0 3,000 0 0 50 0 0 65 0 0 267 0 0 300 0 0 1,122 0 0 650 0 0 650 0 0 995 0 0 13,755 0 0 Boroughs— Dannevirke Feilding Greytown Petone Te Aroha Timaru 18,342 0 0 2,000 0 0 2,800 0 0 737 0 0 495 0 0 600 0 0 1,900 0 0 1,000 0 0 2,000 0 0 6,732 0 0 4,800 0 0 493 0 0 1,495 0 0 3,000 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 Town Boards— Bull's Ngaruawahia Stratford . Drainage Boards— Akaaka Aorangi Land Manawatu Land Otakia Sluggish River Te Puke Land 99 0 0 2,360 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 600 0 0 600 0 0 2,859 0 0 5,788 0 0 2,899 0 0 River Boards— Spring Creek Unauthorised— Wainono Drainage Board 1,000 0 0 75,257 0 0 Appropriations,— Vote 113.—Roads to open up Crown lands Balance at end of year,— Cash in the Public Account 75,428 0 0 18,769 11 8 2,808 7 1 16,971 12 3 21,826 19 11 151 3 0 Advances in hands of Offioers of the Government, — In the Colony 1,541 10 1 4,349 17 2 21,978 2 11 £116,004 14 7 Totals £96,749 9 5