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REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. The following figures show the revenue and expenditure for the year 1915-16 as compared with the figures for the previous year :—

Statement of the Revenue for the Year ended 31st March, 1916, compared with the Year ended 31st March, 1915.

It will be noticed that the revenue for 1915-16 exceeded that for 1914-15 by £2,058,192. This increase was partly due, of course, to the increased taxation and revenue charges imposed by last year's legislation, and partly to increased activities in the trade and commerce of the Dominion.

The Expenditure for the Year ended 31st March, 1916, compared with the Year ended 31st March, 1915, is—

Yoar ended 31st March, 1916. Year ended 31st Maroh, 1915. Inorease. Decrease. Customs Stamp and death duties Postal and telegraph Land-tax.. Income-tax Beer duty Railways.. Registration and other fees.. Marine Miscellaneous Territorial National-endowment revenue Other receipts £ 3,366,171 1,470,307 1,689,917 1,048,356 1,392,119 157,892 4,484,337 106,263 46,228 424,505 219,314 92,655 12.073 £ 3,167,283 1,417,207 1,353,443 799,641 540,318 127,660 4,106,675 101,020 50,387 461,498 239,623 78,770 8,420 £ 198,888 53,100 336,474 248,715 851,801 30,232 377,662 5,243 £ 4,159 36,993 20,309 13,885 3,653 2,119,653 61,461 61,461 Totals 14,510,137 12,451,945 [2,058,192

Expenditure. Year endod 318t March, 1916. Year ended 31st March, 1915. Increase. Decrease. Permanent Appropriations — Civil List Interest and Sinking Fund Under Special Acts Subsidies paid to Local Authorities Territorial Revenue Endowments Old-age Pensions Widows' Pensions Military Pensions War Pensions £ 20,280 3,190,798 574,000 133,072 52,184 173,692 450,842 36,265 48,278 13,744 £ 21,954 3,071,448 545,341 121,821 51,685 173,940 436,765 31,610 47,607 £ £ 1,674 119,350 28,659 8,251 499 14,077 4,655 671 13,744 254 Annual Appropriations — Legislative Departments Departments of Finance Post and Telegraph Department Working Railways Department Public Buildings, Domains, and Maintenance of Roads 4,693,155 34,480 90,004 1,294,712 2,954,006 100,780 4,505,177 37,552 170,134 1,244,569 2,881,087 117,676 189,906 50,143 72,919 3,072 80,130 1,928 16,896