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MINING DISTRICTS LAND OCCUPATION ACCOUNT. Revenue Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1923. Expenditure. £s. cl. Revenue. £ s. d. To Rents written off Suspense (irrecoverable) 010 10 By Accrued rents .. .. .. 1,585 3 9 Adjustments on account of previous years 0 8 0 Balance! oarried down .. .. 1,583 18 5 £1,585 3 9 £.1,585 3 9 To Payments to local bodies under seotion £ s. cl. . £ s. d. 280, Laud Act, 1908 .. .. 73119 2 By Balance brought down .. .. .1,583 18 5 Balance .. .. .. .. 14,237 4 7 Balance from previous years .. 13,385 5 4 £14,969 3 9 £1.4,909 3 9 Receipts and Payments Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1923. Receipts. £ s. d. Payments. £ s. d. To Cash on hand at Ist April, 1922 .. 13,940 14 10 By Refunds of revenue .. .. 79 19 3 Roceipts under section 279, Land Act, Payments to local bodies under section 1089.. .. .. .. 1,543 17 8 280, Land Act, 1908 .. .. 770 18 8 Balance as at 31st March, 1923 .. 14,033 14 7 £15,484 12 0 £1.5,484 12 0 Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1923. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d. £ s. d. Revenue Account—Balance .. .. 14,237 4 7 Sundry debtors for rents .. 380 13 5 Sundry creditors for payments to local Less rents written off bodies under section 280, Land Act, Suspense .. .. 010 10 1908 .. .. .. .. 731. 19 2 385 10 7 Rents in credit (paid in advance) .. 34 18 5 Miscellaneous sundry debtors .. .. 10 0 Miscellaneous sundry creditors .. 10 15 0 Cash in Public Account .. .. 14,633 14 7 £15,020 17 2 £1.5,020 1.7 2 J. B. Thompson, Under-Secretary for Lands. J. H. O'Donnell, Chief Accountant. I hereby certify that the Revenue Account and balance-sheet have been duly examined and compared with the copies of journal entries of the District Land Boards submitted for audit, and correctly state the position as disclosed thereby, exoejit that the value of the endowment lands is not included in the assets and there is no corresponding capital liability. The Revenue Account includes rents due for the period Ist July, 1922, to 30th June, 1923. —G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.