ACCOUNT for the Year ended 31st March, 1900, compared with the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1899.

11— B. 1.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 189 9-1900

1898-99. EXPENDITURE. 1899■1900. £ s. d Grants to— Counties — Ashburton Clifton Eketahuna Hawera Hawke's Bay Hobson Horowhenua Hutt Kiwitea Mackenzie Manawatu Ohinemuri Pahiatua Pohangina Rangitikei Stratford Tuapeka Waipa Waipawa Wairarapa North Wairarapa South Waitemata Wanganui £ s. d. £ , s. d. 4,555 0 0 1,200 0 0 1,455 0 0 1,084 0 0 400 0 0 1,200 0 0 1,655 0 0 6,000 0 0 350 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 2,800 0 0 4,500 0 0 250 0 0 1,250 0 0 2,990 0 0 3,200 0 0 5,336 0 0 1,300 0 0 420 0 0 6,000 0 0 4,350 0 0 4,295 0 0 % 248 0 0 18 0 0 2,000 0 0 624 0 0 3,000 0 0 32,080 0 0 45,895 0 0 100 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 Road Boards— Egmont Eketahuna Featherston Fitzherbert Frankley Hunua Kaiti Manawatu Manchester Manganui Mangorei Masterton Mauriceville Moa Ngatapa Oakura Parihaka Porangahau Seatoun Spring Creek Takapau Taratahi-Carterton Turanga Upper Hurford Upper Taueru Upper Wangaehu Waimate Waipipi Waitara West Waiwakaiho Wirokino 2,420 0 0 100 0 0 700 0 0 700 0 0 800 0 0 1,080 0 0 435 0 0 3,000 0 0 750 0 0 600 0 0 2,025 0 0 1,790 0 0 3,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 496 0 0 1,920 0 0 50 0 0 700 0 0 30 0 0 1,584 0 0 70 0 0 242 0 0 300 0 0 3,000 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 1,900 0 0 3,000 0 0 50 0 0 65 0 0 21,506 0 0 737 0 0 495 0 0 600 0 0 18,342 0 0 Boroughs— Dannevirke Foxton Feilding Greytown Masterton Petone Te Aroha Timaru 800 0 0 1,600 0 0 500 0 0 700 0 0 2,000 0 0 1,784 0 0 7,384 0 0 * 1,900 0 0 1,000 0 0 2,000 0 0 6,732 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 Town Boards — ' Bull's Ngaruawahia .. Waipawa 300 0 0 300 0 0 99 0 0 2,360 0 0 600 0 0 Drainage Boards — Aorangi Land Manawatu Land .. ... Ngaroto Otakia Sluggish River 500 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 2,859 0 0 River Boards —■ Clive Lower Wairau Spring Creek .. 5,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 6,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board - Appropriations, — Vote 119. —Roads to open up Crown lands - Balance at end of year, — Cash in the Public Acoount Advances in hands of Officers of the Government,— In the Colony 08,770 0 0 75,428 0 0 16,971 12 3 6,982 2 4 31,363 8 4 2,808 7 1 13,611 2 11 20,593 5 3 1,541 10 1 4,349 17 2 Totals £120,726 13 7 £96,749 9 5