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DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE— continued. Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1924. Liabilities. Assets. £ s. d. Office furniture and fittings — Capital Account .. .. .. 6,788 11 10 Head Office— £ s. d. £ s d. Sundry creditors .. .. 17,036 11 9 Balance from 31st March, Depreciation Reserve Account ~ 376 1 9 1923 .. .. 1,235 I 10 Treasury Adjustment Account .. 30,394-15 9 Additions, 1923-24 .. 18 0 0 1,253 1 10 Less transferred and disposed of .. .. 600 12 0 652 9 4 Auckland Office — Balance from 31st March, 1923 221 0 7 Less transferred, &o. .. 37 12 0 183 8 7 Christchurch Office— Balance from 31st March, 1923 .. .. .. 179 4 5 Additions, 1923-24 .. 12 6 ISO 0 11 Less transferred to other accounts, &c. . . 30 S 6 149 IS 6 Office of New Zealand Trade ' Commissioner, Melbourne .. 7 4 0 Mechanical office appliances— Wellington Office .. 198 10 0 * Auckland Officio .. .. 35 4 0 Christchurch Office .. 28 13 6 262 7 6 Library, Head Office— Balance brought forward from 31st March, 1924 .. SO 0 2 Additions, 1923-24 .. 13 IS 8 93 IS 10 Half - share in refrigerating plant, High Commissioner's Office, London .. . . .. 270 13 8 Standardized boots and other samples.. .. . . .. 100 10 8 Official stamps, stock in hand, 31st March, 1924 .. .. 9 19 11 Expenditure in advance .. .. 31 14 7 British Empire Exhibition— Expenditure to date— Balance as at 31st March, 1923 .. .. .. 240 14 7 Expenditure, 1923-24 . . 43,083 17 2 43,324 If 9 Less recoveries .. 102 14 2 43,221 17 7 Income and Expenditure Account— Excess of expenditure over income for 1923-24 .. .. .. 9,605 9 0 £54,596 1 1 £54,596 1 1 J. W. Collins, Secretary, Department of Industries and Commerce. 1 hereby certify that the Income and Expenditure Account and balance-sheet have been duly examined and compared with the relative books and documents submitted for audit, and correctly state the position as disclosed thereby, except that the accounts include charges against the. Department for interest on capital for which the Department possesses no parliamentary appropriation, and. credits to the account for the value of land and buildings and furniture, transferred to other Departments for which no payment has been made. The transactions of the Sugar Account have been taken as certified to by the Advisory Accountant of the Department. —G. F. 0. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.