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4. Sinking Fund Account. (1.) Harbour Improvement Guaranteed Loan: £150,000, Forty Years' Currency, at I per Gent. per Annum — £l,soo. £ s. d. £ s. d. Transferred from the General Account .. 1,501 0 0 Paid to the Commissioners of the Public Debts Sinking Funds amount due to Ist September, 1894 .. .. .. 1,500 0 O Charges (exchange on transmission of sinking fund, due Ist March, 1894, to Commissioners' credit, at Wellington) .. 10 0 £1,501 0 0 £1,501 0 0

Balances. Balances — Cr. £ s. d. Balances—Bank, &c, Cr. £ s. d. General Account .. .. .. 6,911 4 11 Harbour Fund Account, Bank of New Special Fund Account .. .. 1,344 15 11 Zealand, Westport .. .. .. 1,256 010 Treasury, Wellington.. .. .. 7,000 0 0 £8,256 0 10 £8,256 0 10 3rd January, 1895. Chas. N. Geeenland, Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities to 31st December, 1894. Assets. £ a. A. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash — Sundry accounts, wages, &c, due .. 850 0 0' Bank of New Zealand, Westport .. 1,256 0 10 Interest on £150,000, 4-per-cent. loan .. 2,000 0 0 Treasury, Wellington .. .. 7,000 0 0 Sinking fund, „ „ .. 500 0 0 Estimated — Interest on debentures taken up by GoWestern breakwater .. .. 123,920 0 0 vernment: Amount payable Ist JanuEastern „ .. .. 56,000 0 0 ary, 1895 .. .. .. .. 7,759 16 7 Limestone quarry .. .. .. 200 0 0 Guaranteed loan of £150,000, at 4 per Cape Foulwind Railway and branches 49,205 0 0 cent., redeemable in 1925 .. .. 150,000 0 O Orowaiti protective works .. .. 5,600 0 0 Debentures taken up by Government .. 318,600' 0 O Harbour buildings .. .. .. 3,026 0 0 Wharves, coal-bins, and staiths .. 26,083 0 0 Buller Bridge .. .. .. 15,100 0 0 Inner training-wall .. .. 32,000 0 0 Gridiron .. .. .. .. 1,189 0 0 Signal-station .. .. .. 227 0 0 PlantLocomotives, cranes, &c. .. .. 32,235 0 0 Revenue — Revenue from endowments for which returns are not yet received .. .. 1,500 0 0 Westport-Ngakawau Railway— Additions to workshops, rolling-stock, &c. .. .. .. .. 14,530 0 0 Extension of railway to Mokihinui .. 37,288 0 0 Sinking fund— On £150,000 guaranteed loan in hands of the Commissioners of the Public Debts Sinking Funds .. .. 17,839 11 3 £424,198 12 1 £479,709 16 7 3rd January, 1895. Chas. N. Greenland, Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. Examined, settled, and allowed at the adjourned annual meeting of the Westport Harbour Board, held this 19th February, 1895. —James Suisted, Chairman.

WHAINGAEOA HAEBOUE BOABD. Statement of Accounts of Whaingaeoa Harbour Board for the Year ending 31st December 1895. General Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Dues .. .. .. .. .. 99 7 5 Works, &c. .. .. .. .. 72 18 10 Rents .. .. .. .. .. 39 15 6 Salaries and office-expenses .. .. 30 5 1 Receipts not revenue .. .. .. 34 18 1 Interest .. .. .. .. 38 18 1 Law-costs, &c. .. .. .. .. 31 19 0 £174 1 0 £174 1 0 6—H. 25.