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EXTERNAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT. Income and Expenditure Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1924. Expenditure. Income. Dr. £ s. d. Or. £ s. d. To Salaries .. .. .. .. 2,137 10 9 By Balance carried down .. .. 22,435 13 0 Advertising . . .. .. 40 0 9 Expenses upkeep Apia Observatorv ■ • 129 3 8 Freight .. .. .. .. 6 17 11 Grant, Bureau Tropical Diseases .. 100 0 0 Grant, ethnological research, Western Samoa.. .. .. .. 250 0 0 Grant, SamoaD Administration, for educational, medical, and wireless services .. .. .. 16,000 0 0 Grant, Samoan Administration, to cover deficit, 1921-22 .. .. 2,000 0 0 Office expenses .. .. .. 17 310 Photographic film . . .. 719 5 Postages, telegrams, &c. . . . . 247 16 8 Printing and stationery .. .. 87 0 3 Purchase power plant, Apia Wireless Station .. .. .. 1,100 19 4 Telephone services .. .. 27 1 9 Travelling allowances and expenses .. 73 13 10 Fuel, light, water, &c. .. .. 49 0 0 Rent .. .. .. .. 80 0 0 Depreciation .. .. .. 81 5 4 £22,435 13 0 £22,435 13 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. To Balance brought down .. .. 22,435 13 6 By Excess of expenditure over income .. 22,461 4 1 Interest on capital .. .. 25 10 7 £22,461 4 1 £22,461 4 1 15alance-sheet as at 31st March, 1924. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d. Capital—Liability to Treasury .. .. 567 0 5 Official stamps .. .. .. 910 9 Sundry creditors .. .. .. 46 11 3 Sundry debtors .. .. .. 95 11 3 Depreciation Reserve .. .. 104 10 4 Advance, Samoan Administration .. 0,000 0 0 Treasury Adjustment Aooount .. 28,420 3 0 £ s. d. Office fittings and requisites 267 0 5 Additions . . . . 11 4 ti 278 10 11 Photographic film .. . . .. 300 0 0 Excess of expenditure over income .. 22,401 4 1 £29,144 17 0 £29,144 17 0 J. D. Gray. Secretary. R. M. Portkous, Accountant. 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, except that the. accounts include charges against the Department for light and fuel, rent, and interest on capital for which the Department possesses no parliamentary appropriation.—G. F. C, CAMPBELL, Controller and Auditor-General.