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STATE FORESTS ACCOUNT. Receipts and Payments for the Year ended 31st March, 1922. Receipts. Payments. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. To Cash in hand, Ist April, 1921 .. 9,530 10 2 By Charges for raising loans .. .. 9 16 2 Loan Account— Interest on debentures issued 9,797 9 7 Debentures issued ..85,000 0 0 Sinking fund .. .. 387 0 I Stock issued —N.Z. con- 10,184 15 8 solidated inscribed stock Salaries— (6 per cent.) .. .. 1,774 12 10 General .. .. 20,760 1 9 Premium .. .. 5 10 9 Afforestation .. .. 10,427 12 4 86,780 9 7 31,193 14 1 Revenue— General development— National endowment .. .. 2,390 6 3 Motor vohicles, field and State and provisional State office equipment .. 3,816 1 2 forests — Demarcation .. .. 667 19 1 Rents, royalties .. 24,320 1 0 Forest atlas .. .. 706 13 0 Nurseries and planta- Communication expenses, tions— offico supplies, printing, Trees .. .. 2,10011 7 and advertising .. 1,50819 4 Firewood and poles . . 107 2 3 Fiscal management expenses 585 4 9 Seeds .. .. 372 0 9 Forest and grazing reoonSheep — Wool, skins, naissanoe, timber valuaand grazing .. 584 210 tion and appraisal, polioRent of departmental ing, patrol, and mainhouses '.'. .. 784 17 5 tenanoe .. .. 5,495 7 5 Sundries .. .. 124 18 11 Travelling-expenses .. 2,351 12 3 28,393 14 9 Offico rent, heating, and Sale of horses .. .. .. 52 0 5 lighting .. .. 1,577 10 4 Transportation expenses and upkeep of motor vehicles . . . . 587 7 4 Temporary assistance . . 159 9 0 Legal expenses and contingencies .. . . 36 7 1 17,552 11 3 Forest-fire fighting— Equipment and protection improvements .. 72 11 0 Locomotion .. .. 190 3 10 Wages . . . . 773 10 0 ■ 1,030 5 4 Educational— Reference library and photo equipment .. 309 1 1 Photographic records and material .. .. 293 18 9 Trade publications and preparing Service bulletins .. .. 95 13 4 Exhibits and technical museum .. .. 42 19 5 Rangers' instruction school 40 7 10 848 0 5 Forest research— Forest ecology .. .. 599 0 9 Silvicultural management studies .. .. 201 14 3 Utilization .. .. 198 4 0 998 19 0 General afforestation — i|i| Nurseries and plantations— , Tree-planting, clearing, building, &c 43,581 19 0 Land-purchase for extension .. .. 2,127 10 1 Sand-dune reclamation .. 261 15 10 Cost of trees gratis to soldiers .. .. 802 18 4 Preparation of planting plans .. .. 525 17 2 Tree-seed collection .. 9 16 6 47,370 2 11 Acquisition of indigenous forests — Acquisition of areas in Hurakia and Manganui Survey Districts .. .. 7,172 11 5 Mis cellaneous Trounson Park — Fencing and erection of caretaker's oottago .. 257 17 7 Subsidies to Wellington and New Brighton Councils for tree-planting .. 1,076 19 6 Law-costs (Trounson Park) 65 2 9 ■ Allowance to Mrs. Steers (removal expenses) .. 10 0 0 1,409 19 10 Cash in hand at 31st March, 1922 .. 9,376 10 7 £127,153 7 2 £127,153 7 2 E. Phillips Turner, Secretary of Forestry. A. W. Gyles, Accountant. The statement has been examined and agrees with tho total receipts and expenditure as disclosed by the Treasury accounts. —G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.