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Expenditure and Rates Maintenance expenditure for the year, £4,109. Rates struck, £3,366. Rates collected, including arrears, £3,350. Net expenditure on construction works, £5,998. The amount shown as expenditure on maintenance and construction works may be subject to slight variation on completion of accounts. I have, &c., E. Taylor, Chief Drainage Engineer. The Director-General of Lands, Wellington. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS A statement of accounts is published in parliamentary paper B-l [Pt. IV].

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