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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1921. Liabilities. Assets. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Capital funds .. .. 371,939 16 0 Land .. .. .. 169,193 18 0 Less excess of expendi- Improvements .. 117,453 7 8 ture over revenue .. 315,378 0 1 Le3S depreciation .. 2,872 13 0 56,361 15 11 114,580 14 8 Sundry creditors .. .. 19,249 311 Equipment .. .. 6,044 17 10 Treasury Adjustment Ac- Furnishing and fittings .. 8,525 18 7 count .. .. .. 319,527 10 3 Books, pictures, diagrams 4,696 14 6 Motor vehicles and bicycles .. .. 11,987 16 5 Stores, farm crops, &o. .. 29,812 2 6 Dead stock at farms and depots .. .. 14,861 11 2 Livestock .. .. 28,567 9 4 104,496 10 4 Sundry debtors .. .. 6,867 7 1 £395,138 10 1 £395,138 10 1 A. R. Stone, for Director-General. Revenue Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1921. Expenditure. Revenue. Stock at Ist April, 1920— £ s. d. £ s. d. Head Office— £ s. d. £ s. d. Equipment .. .. 5,544 17 10 Salaries, bonus, and tern and fittings 8,053 19 3 porary assistance .. 2,273 11 7 Books, pictures, dia- Travelling-expenses, &c. 194 10 11 grams, and maps .. 4,696 14 6 Advertizing, &c. .. 615 16 3 Motor vehicles and bi- Co-operative field excycles .. .. 5,512 6 7 periments .. .. 665 19 11 Stores, motor accessories, Departmental exhibits, fuel, and farm crops.. 23,144 19 9 &c. .. .. 6 0 0 Dead stock at farms and Contributions, &c. .. 107 411 poison, depots .. 14,820 8 1 Experimental farms, &c 26,294 16 0 Live-stock .. .. 33,913 10 2 Biological and chemical 95,686 16 2 laboratories .. 537 5 7 Postages, &c. .. 54 11 5 Preparation of publications .. .. 2,255 19 10 Purchase of books .. 413 4 Rent of offices, &c. .. 51 17 2 Sundry charges .. 3 2 4 Head Office— 33,065 9 3 Salaries, bonus, and Live-stock Divisiontemporary assistance 47,286 9 4 Salaries, &c. .. .. 1,239 710 Travelling-expenses, Travelling-expenses, &c. 555 5 7 bicycles, motors, &o. 8,212 17 1 Destruction of noxious Advertising, printing, weeds .. .. 20 2 6 stationery, and photos 5,664 1 8 Destruction of rabbits .. 9,594 12 0 Agricultural instruction 335 7 6 Diseases of Live-stock .. 16 18 3 Co-operative Field ex- Mamaku Farm .. 810 15 3 periments .. .. 2,058 10 1 Milton Poultry Farm .. 1,232 12 6 Departments exhibits at Inspection of meat .. 15 8 3 agricultural and pas- Quarantine stations .. 1,876 11 11 toral shows .. 587 5 6 Telephone services .. 3 2 7 Contributions, subsidies, Veterinary Laboratory 31119 11 and grants .. 4,633 11 3 Sundry charges .. 41 11 4 Experimental farms and Stock Act .. .. 4,597 16 9 areas .. .. 37,725 17 10 Slaughtering and InspeeBiological and chemical tion Act .. .. 19,363 12 11 laboratories .. 1,298 17 7 39 079 17 7 Postages, telegrams, and Horticulture Division— telephones.. .. 7,524 18 8 Salaries, &c. .. .. 123 6 2 Preparation and distribu- Travelling-expenses, &c. 52 0 10 tion of publications .. 6,779 14 4 Fostering the fruit inPurchase of.books, news- dustry .. .. 218 1 7 papers, &c. .. 627 4 1 Horticultural stations Audit of accounts .. 677 10 0 and areas .. .. 8,689 8 8 Rent of offices and office Sundry charges .. 269 610 charges .. .. 1,660 9 9 Orchard and Garden Sundry charges .. 1,385 18 5 Diseases Act .. 480 0 0 126,458 13 1 9,832 4 1 Carried forward .. £222,145 9 3 Carried forward .. £82,577 10 11