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Table No. 6. STATEMENT showing the Total Ways and Means of the Public Works Fund and the Total Net Expenditure to the 31st March, 1899.

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WAYS AND MEANS. NET EXPENDITURE. Loans :— Immigration and Public Works Loan, 1870 Immigration and Public Works Loan, 1873 Immigration and Public Works Loan, 1874 General Purposes Loan Act, 1873 New Zealand Loan Act, 1876 New Zealand Loan Act, 1877 New Zealand Loan Act, 1879 New Zealand Loan Act, 1882 New Zealand Colonial-inscribed Stock Loan Act, 1882 North Island Main Trunk Railway Loan Act, 1882 .. New Zealand Loan Act, 1884 New Zealand Loan Act, 1886 District Railways Purchasing Acts, 1885-86 • New Zealand Loan Act, 1888 Native Land Purchase Act, 1892 Lands Improvement and Native Lands Acquisition Act, 1894 Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Acts, 1896, 1897, and 1898 Temporary advances on security of short-dated debentures £ s. d. 4,000,000 0 0 2,000,000 0 0 4,000,000 0 0 750,000 0 0 750,000 0 0 2,200,000 0 0 5,000,000 0 0 3,000,000 0 0 250,000 0 0 1,000,000 0 0 1,500,000 0 0 1,325,000 0 0 479,487 7 11 1,000,000 0 0 149,700 0 0 £ s. d. Expenditure on — Immigration Public Works, Departmental • .. Railways, including Surveys of New Lines Roads Land Purchases Development of Goldfields Telegraph Extension Public Buildings Lighthouses, Harbour- works, and Defences Contingent Defence Rates on Native Lands.. .. .. Thermal Springs Charges and Expenses of raising Loans Coal-mines Interest and Sinking Fund £ s. d. 2,147,120 0 10 433,812 2 5 16,032,365 18 6 4,963,114 14 1* 1,904,257 3 4 648,630 10 11 829,285 18 9 2,272,859 6 2 950,070 13 0 469.499 16 6 62,809 10 10 14,599 13 2 1,027,989 14 0 10,835 8 0 218.500 0 0 £ s. d, 500,000 0 0 31,985,750 10 1,190,000 0 0 250,000 0 0 Receipts in Aid :— Amount transferred from Consolidated Fund Contributions of Canterbury Province for Railways .. Stamp Duties to 31st December, 1876 Transfer from Confiscated Lands Liabilities Account Proceeds of Railway Material handea over to Cook County Council Special Receipts under section 9 of " The Railways Construction Act, 1878 " Special Receipts under the Ellesmere Lake Lands Acts, 1888 and 1893 Special Receipts under " The Railways Authorisation and Management Act, 1891" Special Receipts under " The North Island Main Trunk Railway Loan Application Act, 1886 " Sinking Funds released 29,344,187 7 11 1,755,000 0 0 56,000 0 0 264,657 16 4 19,963 1 3 4,963 7 4 60,616 3 0 24,635 4 8 Balance on 31st March, 1899, — Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of officers of the Government 2,257 1 9 17,581 5 0 J6,745 9 7 31,794 6 9 39,061 19 7 2,712,419 8 11 70,856 6 £32,056,606 16 10 £32,056,606 16 II * Has been reaucea by £89,800 receivea under section 31 of " The Government Loans to Local Boaies Act. 1886."