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STATE FORESTS ACCOUNT— continued. Receipts ano Payments for the Year ended 31st Maiicii, 1922. Receipts. Payments. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. To Cash in hand, Ist April, 1921 .. 9,530 10 2 By Charges for raising loans .. .. 9 16 2 Loan Account — Interest on debentures issued 9,797 9 7 Debentures issued .. 85,000 0 0 Sinking fund .. .. 387 6 1 Stock issued —N.Z. con- 10,184 15 8 solidatod inscribed stock Salaries — (6 per cent.) .. .. 1,774 12 10 General .. ..20,766 1 9 Premium .. .. 5 16 9 Afforestation .. .. 10,427 12 4 86,780 9 7 31,193 14 1 Rovonue — General development— National endowment .. .. 2,390 6 3 Motor vohicles, field and State and provisional State offioe equipment .. 3,816 1 2 forests'— Demarcation . . .. 667 19 I Rents, royalties .. 24,320 1 0 Forest atlas .. .. 766 13 0 Nursories and planta- Communication expenses, tions — office supplies, printing, Trees .. .. 2,10011 7 and advertising .. 1,50819 4 Firewood and poles .. 107 2 3 Fiscal management expenses 585 4 9 Seeds .. .. 372 0 9 Forest and grazing reconShoep —■ Wool, skins, naissance, timber valuaand grazing .. 584 210 tion and appraisal, polioRent of departmental ing, patrol, and mainhouses .. .. 784 17 5 tenance .. .. 5,495 7 5 Sundries .. .. 124 18 11 Travelling-expenses .. 2,351 12 3 28,393 14 9 Office rent, heating, and Sale of horses .. .. .. 52 0 5 lighting .. .. 1,577 10 4 Transportation expenses • and upkeep of motor vehicles .. .. 587 7 4 Temporary assistance . , 159 9 Ii Legal expenses and contingencies .. .. 30 7 1 17,552 11 ;j Forest-fire fighting— Equipment and protection improvements . . 72 11 0 Locomotion .. .. 190 3 10 Wages . . .. 773 10 0 1,030 5 4 Educational— Reference library an d photo equipment .. 369 1 1 Photographic records and material .. .. 293 18 9 Trade publications and preparing Service bulletins .. .. 95 13 4 Exhibits and technical museum .. .. 42 19 5 Rangers' instruction school 46 7 10 848 0 5 Forest research— Forest ecology . . . . 599 0 9 Silvicultural management studies > . . 201 14 3 Utilization .. .. 198 4 6 998 19 0 General afforestation — Nurseries and plantations— Tree-planting, oloaring, building, &c 43,581 19 0 Ijand-purchase for extension .. .. 2,127 16 1 Sand-dune reclamation .. 261 15 .10 -. Cost of trees gratis to soldiers .. .. 862 18 4 Preparation of planting plans . . .. 525 17 2 Tree-seed collection .. 9 16 6 47,370 2 11 Acquisition of indigenous forests— Acquisition of areas in Hurakia and Manganui Survey Districts .. .. 7,172 II 5 Miscellaneous Trounson Park — Fencing and erection of caretaker's cottage .. 257 17 7 Subsidies to Wellington and New Brighton Councils for tree-planting . . 1,076 19 6 Law-costs (Trounson Park) 65 2 9 Allowance to Mrs. Steers (removal expenses) .. 10 0 0 1,409 19 10 Cash in hand at 31st March, 1922 .. 9,376 10 7 £127,153 7 2 £127,153 7 2 E. Phillips Turner, Secretary of Forestry. sth June, J 922. A. W. Gyles, Accountant. The statement has been examined and agrees with the total receipts and expenditure as disclosed by the Treasury accounts. —G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.