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Return showing the Cost of Erection of the New Zealand Coastal Lighthouses.

Return showing the Fees, &c, received under the Shipping and Seamen Acts, the Merchant Shipping Act, the Harbours Acts, and the Seafisheries Acts, at Ports under the Marine Department, during the Year ended 31st March, 1909.

Return showing the Amount of Light Dues collected during the Year ended 31st March, 1909.

Return showing the Amount of Pilotage, Port Charges, &c., collected during the Year ended 31st March, 1909.

Name of Lighthouse. Cost of Erection. Pencarrow Head Nelson Tiritiri Mana Island* Taiaroa Head Godley Head Dog Island Farewell Spit Nugget Point Cape Campbell Manukau Head Cape Foulwind Brothers Portland Island Moeraki Centre Island Puysegur Point Cape Maria van Diemen Akaroa Head Cape Saunders Cape Egmontt Moko Hinou Waipapapa Point Ponui Passage! Kaipara Head French Pass Cuvier Island Stephens Island Cape Palliser East Cape Kahurangi Point Jack's Point Cost of telegraph cable to Tiritiri Miscellaneous and unallocated £ 8. d. 6,422 0 4 2,824 8 9 5,747 7 2 5,513 0 1 4,923 14 11 4,705 16 4 10,480 12 8 6,139 11 8 6,597 3 7 5,619 2 6 4,975 2 4 6,955 9 1 6,241 0 0 6,554 14 5 4,288 13 2 5,785 19 0 9,958 19 5 7,028 14 8 7,150 6 5 6,066 6 3 3,353 17 11 8,186 5 0 5,969 18 11 5,571 8 0 1,427 17 5 7,406 16 11 9,349 9 11 6,243 16 1 7,594 8 8 9,145 18 1 1,204 10 9 1,085 19 6 1,322 2 2 Total .. £191,840 12 1 * Light discontinued; moved to Cape Egm< t Cost of iron tower, lantern, and apparai noved from Mana Island, is not included in i i Built by Provincial Government of A mown in Marine Department. ant. bus, which were rethis. Luckland; cost not

Nature of Beceipts. Amount. Shipping and Seamen Acts :— Fees for engagement and discharge of seamen, and sale of forms, &c Surveys of steamers and sailing-vessels .. Measurement of ships.. .. •■ Examinations of masters, mates, and engineers Light dues Sundries Merchant Shipping Act Harbours Acts :— Pilotage and port charges Sundry receipts .. Sea-fisheries Acts : — Sale of oysters Sundry receipts £ s. d. 3,515 3 9 2,368 1 0 6 13 0 485 10 0 34,590 17 11 747 14 8 318 6 0 1,770 17 6 731 3 2 6,938 10 6 312 5 11 Total 51,785 3 5

Port. Amount collected. Auckland Onehunga Whangarei Russell Mangonui.. Whangaroa Hokianga Kaipara Thames Coromandel Tauranga.. Poverty Bay Napier New Plymouth § Waitara Wanganui Patea Wellington Wairau Picton Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Bluff and Invercargill £ s. d. 10,984 10 4 241 13 11 166 4 2 46 15 7 1 5 6 10 0 4 83 16 4 152 1 11 78 17 2 17 4 7 37 17 5 808 1 3 920 15 5 275 2 4 97 16 4 188 16 8 17 12 11 9,168 11 0 22 11 10 695 12 1 437 13 3 800 6 11 413 7 5 3 4 5 2,914 12 7 461 2 9 239 1 6 2,089 3 0 3,217 13 8 Grand total Less refunds £34,591 12 7 0 14 8 Net total .. £34,590 17 11

Name of Port. Pilotage. Port Charges, &c. Total. Auckland* . Onehunga . Hokianga Kaipara Thames* Gisborne* Wairoa* Napier* N-Plymouth* Waitara* Wanganui* .. Patea* Fon Wellington*. . £ s. d. 1,384 18 11 19 14 0 40 12 5 28 14 8 51 5 8 153 7 6 243 4 0 1,079 9 0 127 14 6 140 3 0 630 2 6 76 6 10 196 15 '9 402 2 0 j 45 8 11 { 190 9 7 2,719 4 8 462 1 4 £ s. d. 10,326 16 2 315 7 7 22 14 9 942 9 8 55 9 0 5,167 13 0 11 18 9 6,997 6 10 232 0 0 193 13 10 116 2 7 15 16 0 £ s. d. 11,711 15 1 335 1 7 63 7 2 971 4 4 106 14 8 5,321 0 6 255 2 9 8,076 15 10 359 14 6 333 16 10 746 5 1 92 2 10 196 15 9 15,527 13 3 Wairau* Nelson* Westport* Hokitika* t • Lyttelton* .. Karamea Kaiapoi Timaru* Oamaru* t • - Dunedin* Bluff and | Invercargill*) 15,12511 3 276 18 9 1,913 2 6 29 12 6 8,139 1 5 235 18 6 2,996 3 5 2,375 3 10 29 12 6 19,564 4 0 155 19 9 3 0 0 6,857 3 7 2,551 6 4 18,347 8 5 11,425 2 7 155 19 9 3 0 0 2,194 14 9 13,059 8 11 4,662 8 10 2,551 6 4 5,287 19 6 2,752 18 10 I 5,004 11 7 7,757 10 5 Totals .. 39,834 12 H 65,136 8 1 104,971 0 11 * Harbour Board revenue. tTom uge dues.