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DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. INDUSTRIAL DIVISION. Income and Expenditure Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1939. Expenditure. £ s. d. Income. £ s. d. Salaries, agents'allowances, and overtime .. 70,046 8 7 Penalties imposed by the Court in actions brought Advertising, supply of newspapers, &c. .. .. 451 17 11 for breaches of awards and certain sections of Motor-cars, motor-cycles, and bicycles : Mainten- the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, ance and repairing .. .. .. .. 2,618 3 9 1925, and the Apprentices Act, 1923 .. .. 602 1 6 Fees payable to assessors on Conciliation Councils 5,529 610 Factory-registration fees .. .. .. 4,332 7 0 Freight, cartage, and transport charges .. .. 11l 0 7 Servants'registry office license fees .. .. 23 0 0 Heating and lighting of offices .. .. .. 474 14 3 Weights and measures verification fees .. .. 10,437 9 9 Law-costs .. •• •• 55 8 0 Rent of buildings .. .. .. .. 58 611 Postage, telegrams, telephone services .. .. 2,900 11 9 Revenue from sale of seized articles .. .. 10 0 Printing, stationery, office requisites, and type- Charges for use of motor-vehicles and other inciwriter repairs .. .. .. •• 5,550 18 1 dental services in connection with weights and Rates and repairs on property .. .. .. 13 17 1 measures verification .. .. .. 1,741 5 1 Rent and rates on office accommodation .. 4,622 16 9 Sale of departmental publications .. .. 522 16 3 Transfer expenses, travelling al- Excess of expenditure over income before charging lowances and expenses —• interest carried down .. .. .. 94,956 13 5 Arbitration Court and Concilia- £ s. d. tion Councils .. .. 9,27312 4 Departmental .. .. 6,198 8 6 15,472 0 10 Commission on sale of literature .. . ■ 74 11 10 Miscellaneous expenses .. • • • • 78 17 9 Expenses of tribunal to investigate bakers' dispute 32 5 2 Expenses of delegation to Geneva Conference .. 2,909 4 4 Provision for depreciation of assets .. .. 1,663 16 4 Bad debts .. . ■ • • • • • • 69 0 1 £112,674 19 11 £112,674 19 11 Excess of expenditure over income before charging £ s. d. £ s. d. interest brought down .. .. •• 94,956 13 5 Excess of expenditure over income .. .. 95,412 15 5 Interest on capital .. .. .. • • 456 2 0 £95,412 15 5 £95,412 15 5 Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1939. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d. Capital .. .. .. ■■ •• 11,535 15 5 Land and buildings .. .. .. •• 434 18 0 Creditors £ s. d. Motor-cars, motor-cycles, and bicycles .. .. 2,795 19 0 Departmental .. .. 1,155 1 3 Furniture and fittings.. .. .. ■■ 2,899 8 6 Sundry .. .. .. 550 15 2 Mechanical office appliances . . .. .. 658 13 10 Factory fees received in advance 314 0 Library books .. .. . ■ .. 1,232 8 1 1,709 10 5 Weights and measures standards .. .. 3,514 8 0 Reserve for bad debts .. .. • • 92 12 3 Stationery .. .. .. .. • • 395 1 10 Amounts held on deposit .. .. .. 1,446 0 2 Stamps .. .. .. .. •• 166 14 8 Writings-ofi, Suspense Account .. .. 128 0 1 Payments in advance .. .. ■■ 1,299 8 0 Treasury Adjustment Account .. .. 96,339 17 4 Debtors —■ £ s. d. Departmental .. .. 28 12 2 Sundry .. .. .. 839 711 868 0 1 Assets in Suspense .. .. • • • ■ 128 0 1 Deposit Accounts .. .. .. •• 1,446 0 2 Excess of expenditure over income .. .. 95,412 15 5 £111,251 15 8 £111,251 15 8 Henry E. Moston, Secretary of Labour. 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 explanatory notes dealing with departmental accounts generally as appearing at commencement of parliamentary return 8.-l [Pt. IV].—J. H. Fowler, Controller and Auditor-General.

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