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APPENDIX VI Payments and Receipts for the Year ended 31st March, 1947

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Item. 1943-44. 1944-45. 1945-46. 1946-47. Payments £ £ £ £ Allocation of revenue — Consolidated Fund (portion of revenue from national 17,4.55 16,196 14,235 * endowment forests) Working Railways Account (section 24 (1), Finance Act, 549 3,539 1936) Local bodies 12,928 12,799 17,114 25,750 General management charges— Salaries 89,332 110,317 137,984 187,714 General expenses 41,254 56,019 102,275 130,770 Land purchase 11,687 38,957 30,098 18,296 Forestry projects under direct management — Exotic 248,705 346,743 377,910 710,376 Indigenous 30,521 41,912 58,808 79,023 Utilization : Sawmill, creosote, plant, &c. 104,826 125,931 133,677 174,379 Pulp and paper making 12,369 Totals 557,257 748,874 872,101 1,342,216 Receipts Indigenous forests receipts— Timber sales 114,553 121,603 135,913 155,208 Timber royalties and trespass 8,588 9,250 13,451 11,481 Leases, grazing 1,402 1,611 2,865 2,229 Sawmill sites, industrial, &c. 247 308 672 359 Miscellaneous 6,895 9,124 8,960 16,419 Log sales from managed forests 73,317 54,71667,053 62,432 Exotic forests : Poles, posts, firewood, &c. 51,952 45,938 38,643 39,975 Utilization projects— Sawn timber 16,180 22,529 63,451 98,703 Creosoted products 15,964 45,918 17,305 17,889 Box shooks 136,600 129,126 182,187 134,839 Miscellaneous 2,663 9,875 9,532 12,840 Miscellaneous credits 16,942 10,802 48,292 37,953 Totals 445,303 460,800 588,324 590,327 Receipts from national endowment indigenous forests 46,654 47,426 47,157 37,366 (included in above) * Amount accrued in period, £16,023, has subsequently been paid.