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

Return showing the Amount of Light Dues collected during the Year ended 31st March, 1904.

Return showing the Fees, &c., received under the Shipping and Seamen's Acts, the Merchant Shipping Act, the Sea-fisheries Acts, and for Pilotage and Port Charges, &c., during the Year ended 31st March, 1904.

Return showing the Amount of Pilotage, Port Charges, &c., collected during the Year ended 31st March, 1904.

Port. Amount collected. Auckland Onehunga Whangarei Whangaroa Russell Mangonui 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. 9,248 9 6 149 16 7 127 1 11 2 2 9 21 17 4 1 13 5 11 11 5 293 5 8 91 0 0 19 3 0 24 6 11 599 0 0 751 15 2 192 10 8 45 8 9 168 5 2 14 10 2 7,301 1 5 20 9 9 476 13 8 386 10 10 827 17 11 259 2 9 5 19 1 2,521 12 4 710 19 3 124 13 8 2,002 0 11 2,717 0 11 Total £29,116 0 11

Name of Lighthouse. Cost of Erection. Pencarrow Head Nelson Tiritiri 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 J Kaipara Head French Pass Cuvier Island Stephen Island Cape Palliser East Cape Kahurangi Point Cost of telegraph cable to Tiritiri Miscellaneous 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 6,243 16 1 7,594 8 8 9,145 18 1 1,085 19 6 1,322 2 2 Total .. £190,636 1 4 * Light discontinued; moved to Cape Egm< t Cost of iron tower, lantern, and apparal moved from Mana Island, is not included in 1 ; Built by Provincial Government of A known in Marine Department. ont. tus, which were rethis. .uckland; cost not

Nature of Receipts. Amount. Shipping 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 Pilotage and port charges Sundry receipts under Harbours Acts Sea-fisheries Act Sundries £ s. d. 2,330 13 4 1,690 0 0 40 0 0 276 6 6 29,116 0 11 252 4 6 1,914 15 5 342 4 0 63 9 0 269 2 10 Total 36,294 16 6

Name of Port. Pilotage. Port Charges, &c. Total. Auckland* Onehunga Hokianga Kaipara Thames' Gisborne' Wairoa* Napier* New Plymouth* Waitara* Wanganui* .. Patea* Foxton Wellington* .. Wairau Nelson* Hokitika* Lyttelton* Timaru* Oamaru* Dunedin* Invercargill* .. Bluff* £ s. d. 788 11 9: 14 1 0 80 11 6 179 18 0 129 18 8 10 1 2 101 10 0 1,356 1 5 62 7 9 91 3 9 526 17 0 58 16 9 203 19 4 356 6 10 203 13 4 2,180 18 0 £ s. d. 5,570 11 11 137 12 6 1,094 19 9 1,320 3 5 6 0 0 4,897 19 3 148 12 4 95 13 4; £ a. d. 6,359 3 8 151 13 6 80 11 6 1,274 17 9 129 18 8 1,330 4 7 107 10 0 6,254 0 8 211 0 1 186 17 1 526 17 0 76 3 7 203 19 4 14,170 3 10 203 13 4 2,429 3 4 54 7 9 16,269 2 10 6,542 2 10 2,198 2 8 14,390 18 5 21 8 10 5,800 8 1 17' 6 10' 13,813 17 Oi 9,715' 3 8 2,928 3 8 248' 5 4l t54 7 9 6,553 19 2 3,613 19 2 f2,198 2 3 6,388 12 11 21 8 10 2,142 5 4 8,002* 5 6 3,658' 2 9| Totals .. 30,648 11 10 48,323 17 1 78,972 8 11 • Harbour Board revenue. t Tonnage rate on cargo.