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AUDIT DEPARTMENT. Income and Expenditure Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1922. Expenditure. £ s. d. Income. To Salaries .. .. .. .. 34,259 18 4 By Audit fees— £ s. d. £ s. cl. Advertising .. .. .. 6 1 11 Government, departAllowance to Audit Officers, London.. 125 0 0 ments and local Allowance for performing higher duties 83 9 2 bodies .. .. 18,8(i4 12 7 Grant to Colonel Collins, _c. .. 650 0 0 War expenses .. 2,245 16 3 Law-costs .. .. .. 99 0 1 21,110 8 10 Office fittings, etc... .. .. 397 16 4 Excess of expenditure over income .. 22,516 9 4 . Postages .. .. .. 218 18 4 Rent .. .. .. .. 1,000 1 8 Telephone services .. .. 30 4 8 * Temporary assistance .. .. 3,538 12 3 Travelling" expenses .. .. 3,087 4 3 Contingencies .. .. .. 19 7 8 Depreciation .. .. .. 105 3 6 £43,626 18 2 £43,626 18 2 £ s. d. £ s. d. To Balance carried down .. .. 22,516 9 4 By Excess of expenditure over income Interest .. .. .. .. 132 5 11 after charging interest on capital .. 22,648 15 3 £22,648 15 3 £22,648 15 3 Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1922. Liabilities. £ s. d. I Assets. £ s. d. £ s. d. Capital Account — \ Furniture and fittings .. 1,231 6 6 Liability to Treasury, Ist April, 1921... 2,939 17 4 I Add additions .. 30 4 7 Treasury Adjustment Account .. 23,167 11 6 Sundry creditors .. .. .. 315 8 7 1,26111 1 Less depreciation at, 5 per cent. .. .-. 63 1 7 1,198 9 6 Books and stationery .. 401 18 0 Add additions .. 7 5 0 409 3 0 Less depreciation at 5 per cent. .. .. 20 9 2 388 13 10 Mechanical appliances . . 210 7 6 Add additions .. 6 0 0 216 7 6 Less depreciation at 10 per cent. .. .. 21 12 9 194 14 9 Sundry debtors .. .. . . 1,605 6 6 Stamps . . .. . . 318 6 Expenses paid in advance.. .. 382 19 1 Excess of expenditure over income .. 22,648 15 3 £26,422 17 5 £26,422 17 5 Audit Office, 3rd August, 1922. G. E. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General. I hereby certify that the Income and Expenditure Account and balance-sheet have been duly examined and compared with the relative books and documents submitted for audit, and correctly state the position as disclosed thereby— G. E. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.