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MINES DEPARTMENT. Income and Expenditure Account for the Year endkd 31st March, 1924. Expenditure. £ s. d. Income. £ s. d. To Advertising .. .. .. 67 17 3 By Interest .. .. .. .. 187 18 0 Assistance to prospecting, &o. .. 12,389 10 11 Registration and other fees .. 291 17 6 Depreciation .. .. .. 1,557 13 8 Sales of water .. .. .. 1,276 9 2 Drills, maintenance of .. .. 146 17 4 Timber royalties .. .. .. 429 11 3 Examinations .. .. .. 92 8 11 Goldfields revenue .. ■.. 19,126 8 11 Freight and cartage .. .. 13 15 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 36,039 17 4 .Fuel, light, and water .. . . 19 13 0 Instruments, repairs of .. .. 3 11 2 Law-costs.. .. .. .. 342 1 5 Offloe requisites .. .. .. 38 17 3 Outfit allowances and field expenses . . 232 18 11 Hostages and telegrams .. .. 288 5 5 Printing and stationery .. .. 392 7 11 Rents .. .. .. .. 567 7 4 Salaries .. .. .. .. 10,676 14 0 Schools of Mines .. .. .. 3,113 8 6 Telephones .. .. .. 160 7 2 Travelling-expenses . . . . 2,068 16 0 Wages and other assistance .. .. 261 0 0 Water-races, maintenance, of . . 224 1 7 Experiments re inflammability of coaldust .. .. .. .. 422 12 11 Sundries . . .. 14 12 7 Losses, sums irrecoverable, etc. .. 5,130 15 0 Goldfields revenue due to local bodies 19,126 811 £57,352 2 2 • £57,352 2 2 £ S. d. £ s , d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 36,039 17 4 By Balance .. .. .. .. 38,521 611 Interest on capital .. .. .. 2,481 9 7 £38,521 6 11 £38,521 6 11 To Balance .. .. .. ..£38,521 6 11 Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1924. Liabilities. £ s. d. ! Assets. £ s. d. £ s. d. Capital—Liability to Treasury, 31st March, J Land .. .. .. .. 4,349 0 0 1923 .. .. .. .. 70,846 510 Buildings .. .. .. 379 19 6 Treasury Adjustment Account .. .. 29,861 17 6 Furniture and fittings .. 1,333 16 11 Depreciation reserve .. .. .. 8,609 10 10 I Less written off to Suspense 0 7 0 Sundry creditors .. .. .. 10,934 14 3 \ 1,333 9 II Deposits on coal-leases, &b. .. .. 2,310 15 2 | Mechanical appliances .. .. 315 6 (i Receipts, being proportion of consideration j Instruments .. .. .. 564 6I I paid on assignment of coal-leases . . 50 0 0 I Plant and machinery .. 239 11 3 Less written off to Suspense 14 6 10 225 4 5 Library maps, &c. .. 5,918 6 2 Less written off to Suspense 500 3 9 5,418 2 5 Mineral collections .. .. 9,640 2 6 Motor-cars .. .. 834 9 4 Less written off to Suspense 26 9 11 807 19 5 Drills and equipment . . 15,339 8 10 Less written off to Suspense 425 12 7 14,913 16 3 Water-races .. .. .. 14,700 0 0 Loans to oil-boring companies and others .. .. 17,791 2 10 Less provision for losses of principal and interest .. 5,000 0 0 12,791 2 10 Sundry debtors .. .. 7,523 3 0 Less written off to Suspense 338 18 0 7,184 5 0 Interest accrued but not duo .. 53 16 8 Stores and stocks on hand .. .. 125 6 8 Plant, &c, from Firewood Depot .. .1 1,350 9 9 Less written off to Suspense 765 511 585 3 10 Cash in hands of receivers .. .. 9,717 (i 10 Excess of expenditure over income— Mines Department ..38,521 6 11 Geological Survey Branch 6,777 2 3 45,298 9 2 Less Coal-minos Act, 1908 .. .. 5,789 15 3 39,508 13 11 £122,613 3 7 £122,613 3 7 G. Jas. Anderson, Minister of Mines. P. G. Pearce, Accountant. I hereby certify that the Revenue Account, 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 furniture for which no payment has been made, and interest on capital for which the Department possesses no parliamentary appropriation, and assets transferred to other Departments for which no payment has been received. The Revenue Account includes rents for the period Ist July, 1923, to 30th .June, 1924, and royalties for the period Ist January to 31st December, 1923. — G. F. (.'. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.