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DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. Income and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st March, 1922. Administrative Services. Expenditure. Income. Salaries (including overtime and meal £ s. d. Fines under Board of Trade £ s. d. £ s. d allowances) .. .. .. 12,310 19 8 Act .. ..5 0 0 Advertising, books, newspapers, &c. . . 252 0 6 Solicitors' costs and witnesses' Distribution of commodities, including expenses .. .. 817 0 freight, cartage, and transport . . 577 13 10 , 13 17 0 Fuel, light, power, and office-cleaning .. 93 18 9 , Recoveries— Law-costs .. .. . . . . 130 3 10 Salaries, &c. . . . . 50 10 8 Office stationery and requisites . . 331 1 5 Advertising, &o. . . .. 0 5 0 Price Investigation Tribunals .. . . 717 14 3 Distribution of commodiPromotion of sale of manufactures in out- ties, &c. .. .. 543 0 3 side markets .. . . .. 20 2 2 Offico furniture, cfco. .. 0 2 6 Postages, telegrams, rent of £ s. d. Price Investigation Tribunals 316 0 boxes and telephone servioes 701 6 0 Postages, telegrams, &c. .. 712 2 Less official stamps on hand 28 7 1 Travelling allowances and 672 18 11 expenses .. .. 118 19 7 Rxpenses of Commission of Inquiry into Industrial Exhibition at cement-prices .. .. . . 62 2 4 Wellington .. .. 413 6 Travelling allowances and expenses, Head 735 5 8 Office, branches, and Advisory Com- Interim surplus, sale of sugar under No. 1 mittees .. .. .. .. 1,242 13 9 Sugar Contract .. .. .. 20,000 0 0 Standardization of footwear—Expenses of Sale of articles purchased for purpose of exhibiting.. .. .. .. 212 9 price investigation .. .. .. 21 11 0 Depreciation .. .. .. 357 19 6 Rent and rates —Head Office and branches 81.5 9 4" Rent (proportion of), High Commissioner's Office, London .. . . . . 150 0 0 Industrial exhibitions—Expenses of exhibiting, &o.— Auckland . . .. .. . . 12 17 8 Wellington . . . . . . 85 5 11 Transfer and removal expenses .. 01 9 3 Balance down—Excess of income over expenditure .. .. .. 2,873 910 £20,770 13 8 £20,770 13 8 Non-administrative Services. Expenditure. Income. Subsidies to steamer services— £ s. d. Balance down—Excess of expenditure £ s. d. New Zealand-Vancouver .. .. 10,000 0 0 over income .. .. .. 22,087 10 0 New Zealand - San Francisco .. 12,500 0 0 New Zealand - Chatham Islands .. 187 10 0 £22,687 10 0 £22,687 10 0 Balance brought, down—Non-administra- £ s. d. Balance brought down—Administrative £ s. cl. tive services .. .. . . 22,687 10 0 services .. .. .. .. 2,873 910 Interest on capital .. . . .. 289 12 0 Balance —Excess of expenditure over income .. . . .. .. 20,103 12 2 £22.977 2 0 £22,977 2 0

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