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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT—continued. Balance-sheet as at 31st Mabch, 1926. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d. £ s. d. Capital .. .. .. .. 482,916 4 6 Building and sites .. .. .. 439,627 7 5 Sundry creditors .. .. .. 8,505 14 3 Additional .. .. .. .. 7,477 7 7 Suspense Account .. .. .. 318 0 447,104 15 0 Depreciation Reserve.. .. .. 37,713 610 Patent Office library .. .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 Office furniture and fittings .. .. 35,580 111 Additional .. .. .. .. 846 4 11 36,426 6 10 Mechanical appliances .. .. .. 3,002 17 7 Additional .. .. .. .. 447 8 9 3,450 6 4 Motor-vehicles .. .. .. .. 244 14 1 Sundry debtors .. .. .. .. 1,903 16 1 Expenses paid in advance .. .. .. 562 9 9 Treasury Adjustment Account .. .. .. 14,217 0 6 Excess expenditure over income— Courts and general .. .. .. 25,899 13 9 Less excess income over expenditure— £ s. d. Patent Office .. 5,4:64 9 2 Bankruptcy .. 205 9 7 5,669 18 9 — 20,229 15 0 £529,139 3 7 £529,139 3 7 21st July, 1926. R. P. Ward, Under-Secretary. I 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, subject to the above departmental note. —G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.

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