8.—12

APPENDIX. The following deductions may be drawn from the foregoing tables : — For the purpose of showing the progress of the revenue, and the expenditure of different kinds per head of the population, the following table gives the average for periods of five years from 1855, the first year for which population is given in the statistical tables, to 1887; the last period comprising only three years. The columns below give the average per head of the population under the following heads : — I. Kevenue raised by Taxation. 11. Payment of Interest and Sinking Fund. 111. Cost of the Legislature. IV. Cost of the Civil Service as stated in the tables. .V. Cost of the Departments described in the tables as Legislative, Civil, Military, Marine, Native, and Postal. These comprise all the ordinary cost of the Government, which is paid for out of current revenue. Public Works, Eailways, Education, and Immigration are omitted, as, during the existence of the Provinces, most of the expenditure under those heads does not appear as expenditure of the General Government. VI. The total expenditure of the Government.

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Years. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. .855-59 .860-64 .865-69 .870-74 .875-79 .880-84 .885-87 £ s. a. 2 18 10 3 5 8 4 6 9 3 18 4 5 9 4 3 6 4 2 7 £ s. a. 0 3 8 0 5 4 16 5 1 13 2 2 9 7 2 14 6 2 15 6 £ s. a. 0 2 8 0 16 0 13 0 14 0 18 0 19 0 19 £ s. a. 0 14 2 0 13 10 0 17 0 0 17 9 0 19 2 0 19 2 0 19 8 £ s. a. 1 4 10 3 5 0 3 2 0 2 6 1 2 13 2 2 4 1 19 5 £ s. a 6 8 £ 8 18 £ 9 4 7 9 7 £ 13 5 6 9 1 t 9 10 £