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INTERNAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT—continued. Combined Income and Expenditure Account foe the Year ended 31st March, 1927. (Including Subdivisions I to X and Special Acts.) Expenditure. \ Income. To Balances from separate accounts as under : — £ s. d. [ By Balances from separate accounts as Under :— £ s. d. Head Office .. .. .. .. 349,459 16 0 1 Dominion Laboratory, Explosives Branch 1,559 .18 1 Government Actuary Department .. 93 13 1 Balance .. .. .. .. 456,878 4 U Registrar-General .. .. .. 738 3 4 Census and Statistics .. .. .. 60,641 9 0 High Commissioner .. .. .. 40,029 16 1 Museum .. .. .. .. 7,475 5 4 £458,438 2 10 1 £458,438 2 10 The following charges are included for which the Department possesses no parliamentary appropriation : (a) Rental assessed by the Public Works Department; (6) interest on capital at 4-1 per cent.; (r) the amounts include transfer of assets from other Departments or which no parliamentary authority is provided. Combined Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1927. (Including Subdivisions I to X and Special Acts.) Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. Fixed capital as at Ist April, 1926 .. .. 184,513 10 8 Departmental assets, Head Office, Sundry creditors .. .. .. .. 48,992 18 3 and sub-Departments— £ s. d. £ s. d. Advance payments — £ s. d. Land .. .. .. 5,089 9 0 Loans .. .. ~ 21 10 0 Buildings .. .. .. 169,361 3 0 Rents .. .. .. 4 8 6 Office furniture and fittings .. 18,277 19 8 25 18 6 Mechanical appliances .. 17,888 2 1 Unpaid purchase-price of building, London .. 77,500 0 0 Photographic apparatus .. 1,985 16 9 Depreciation Reserve .. .. .. 22,112 011 Library .. .. .. 3,620 12 10 Treasury Adjustment Account .. .. 509,961 9 4 Tools .. .. .. 408 1 10 Saleable publications .. 9,308 13 0 Motor-vehicles .. .. 2,980 0 3 228,919 18 5 Head Office— Turnbull Library building .. 9,292 4 5 Turnbull Library .. 56,206 11 6 Launches .. .. .. 227 19 8 Traps and horses . . .. 12 2 6 Wharves and beacons .. 295 0 0 Consumable stores .. .. 671 16 2 66,705 14 3 Census and Statistics — Payment in advance —Printing publications .. 150 0 0 High Commissioner — Motor accessories .. .. 10 0 0 Lease of building .. .. 20,425 0 0 20,435 0 0 Museum— Exhibits .. .. ... 54,238 15 10 Payments in advance—Publications .. .. .. 960 5 0 55,199 0 10 Dominion Laboratory, Explosives Branch—Explosives appliances .. .. .. 188 0 9 Loan on mortgage .. .. .. .. 7,649 1 11 Sundry debtors .. .. .. .. 6,980 16 9 Excess of expenditure over income .. .. 456,878 4 9 £843,105 17 8 £843,105 17 8 — J. Hislop, Under-Secretary. A. W. Pyne, Accountant. 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 notes. —G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.

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