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The expenditure at the individual farms is given in the following table : —

Hereunder is extended the statement of receipts : —

Of the 187 acres at Auckland, about 40 are taken up with buildings, plantations, &c.; the rest, except 60 acres grassed for grazing, is brought under close cultivation. The farm is compact. At Christchurch £391 is spent on rent and rates for 200 acres leased. The Mental Hospital land is of similar area. The shorthorn dairy herd is promising excellently, and £103 was received tor the sale of young bulls. The largest individual item in the cash sales is £685 for rams. At Seacliff the available land is scattered, making the farming relatively expensive, and the bush, comprising some 430 acres, which is the glory of the place, and of incalculable benefit to the patients, does not bulk largely in farm returns. At Waitati the extent of bush is approximately 800 acres. Feed formed a large item in the expenditure. There is not sufficient good land in these large estates, and hence the item £267 for rent and rates. Among the outstanding items sold for cash were potatoes, £511, and eggs, £430. I might parenthetically state that at Seacliff, though not included in these returns, there is a considerable harvest from the sea. The fish caught during the year meant, in terms of food-supply, 270,0001b., of which 80,0001b. was distributed gratis to other public institutions, Government and otherwise. Dr. King draws attention to this in his report, and claims that some adjustment should be made whereby Seacliff would receive oredii for the fish supplied to other institutions. Most ot the land at Hokitika is poor, and, were it not for the benefit received by patients in working it, would not pay to improve. Firewood, which does not, of course, show in this retufh, is about the most profitable product of the estate, as may be gleaned from Table XXI in the appendix. At Nelson there are 208 acres, of which about 140 are in grass and 8 acres in plantation, leaving 60 acres which are under cultivation. The largest item among the cash sales was £215 for pigs. At Porirua, of the 889 acres, the watershed absorbs 541, and the buildings and plantations 60. Ihe land produces to the best of its ability. The largest item of expenditure was for feed—namely, £1,028. For cash sale of poultry and eggs £448 was received, and £344 for the sale of pigs. Accommodation. —The Wolfe Bequest Hospital at Auckland is completed and in occupation. At Porirua the extensive additions were filled by transfers from Mount View; and it may reasonably be anticipated that the admission rate at both these institutions will continue to rise—in Auckland as a result of the large settlement taking place in the province, and at Porirua because it now gets the admissions which went to Mount View. To these particular instances of anticipating a larger admission rate must be added the general rise in admissions which is to be expected from an increasing population, and one may fairly assume an annual expenditure of from £12,000 to £15,000 in buildings to keep pace with this increase. But for the next two years a sum largely in excess of this is necessary, especially as surplus accommodation was one of the features of the classification scheme we considered. The first instalment of this relief should by now have been

Mental Hospital Is. Total Auckland. Christchurch. Seacliff. Hokitika. Nelson. Porirua. Wellington. Salaries and wages ! ?eed .. .. ! 3eeds,&c, manures implements, harness, repairs, &c. Stock Sent, rates, &o. .. fencing, reading, &a. .. Harvesting, threshing, &o. iailage.. buildings Sundries £ s. d. 441 10 0 168 7 5 163 16 7 57 12 3 £ s. d. 615 0 0 211 16 4 99 17 0 134 15 9 £ s. d. £ s. d. 1,034 2 2 64 3 4 1,269 0 0 14 19 4 330 14 4 13 9 1 377 14 4 15 10 3 £ s. d 178 13 10 101 8 8 46 10 8 £ s. d 312 10 0 1,028 17 11 257 17 4 51 6 2 £ s d. 53 2 6 49 6 4 £ s. d. 2,699 1 10 2,843 16 0 865 14 4 683 9 5 30 4 9 2112 2 325 16 1 391 3 8 72 16 8 110 7 9 2 10 0 267 7 111 94 19 10| ) 5 19 2 48 7 5 523 5 2 658 11 7 169 8 8 92 12 4 92 12 4 .. 40 17 3l 103 3 4l 125 19 10| 22 15 a] 300 0 125 19 10 63 12 5 157 2 6 2319 2 Totals 3,633 1 4! 110 12 0| 907 2 4 2,087 18 0 362 12 4l 1,698 18 10! 102 8 10 8,902 13 8

Produce sold for Cash. Value of Produce consumed. I Mental Hospital. Total. Auckland Christchurch Seaclifl Hokiiika Nelson Porirua Wellington ... £ s. 502 1 1,573 16 2,101 14 d. 1 0 6 £ s. d. 2,278 12 11 2,336 0 1 4,284 10 8 328 15 9 659 18 1 2,218 19 11 £ 8. 2,780 14 3,909 16 6,386 5 328 15 914 8 3,358 11 124 4 d. 0 1 2 9 5 3 4 254 10 1,139 11 124 4 4 4 4 Total ... 5,695 17 7 12,106 17 5 17,802 15 0