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PENSIONS DEPARTMENT— continued. Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1923. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. Capital .. .. .. .. .. 3,001 18 0 £ s. d. £ s. cl. Reserve for depreciationi .. .. .. 645 7 0 Office furniture and equipment 3,601 11 0 Creditors — Mechanical appliances . . 840 10 0 Advances on account of £ s. d. 4,442 1 6 Union of South Africa .. 108 8 7 Stationery on hand .. .. .. 915 18 0 Sundry .. .. .. 1,222 411 Sundry debtors — 1,390 13 0 Advances on account of CornImprest Accounts — mon wealth .. .. 14,123 18 5 Police pensions .. .. 18 8 4 Advances on account of Defence Act .. . . 16 3 8 Canada .. .. 224 10 5 Sundry .. .. .. 1 13 1 Government Departments 34,362 7 0 30 5 1 • 48,710 15 10 Instalments paid but not cleared by Treasury 242 15 0 Imprest Accounts— Unpaid pensions— High Commissioner .. 9,922 .19 2 Pensions Act, 1913— Old-age pensions .. .. 130 I 8 Old-age .. £2,572 5 3 War pensions .. .. 71 5 0 Widows' .. 810 9 7 Widows' pensions .. 20 0 0 Military .. 211. 10 11 Miners'pensions .. .. 5 8 4 3,594 II 9 10,155 14 2 War Pensions Act, 1915 .. 28,925 3 6 Pensions prepaid— Civil Service Act, 1908 .. 381 7 5 Pensions Act, 1913— Epidemic pensions .. 220 9 9 Old-age .. £47,357 5 0 Defence Act, 1909 .. 192 13 0 Widows' 11,029 11 8 Special annuities .. .. 180 4 0 Military.. - 1,904 1 8 Miner's Phthisis Act, 1915 159 6 4 00,350 18 4 Judicature Act, 1908 .. 11l 3 0 War Pensions Act, 1915 .. 78,113 0 5 Schaefer MxiGuire Act, 1872 0 9 8 Epidemic pensions .. 2,904 11. 7 33,771 8 11 Miner's Phthisis Act, 1915 2,184 8 8 Treasury Adjustment.Account .. .. 2,767,864 19 9 Civil Service Act, 1908 .. 1,792 16 7 Defence Act, 1909 .. 172 10 4 Special annuities .. .. 169 11 11 Judicature Act, 1908 .. 11l 2 2 Finance Act, 1919 .. 27 13 6 Walsh and Others Act, 1869 4 3 4 ■'— 145,890 16 10 Accounts prepaid . . .. .. 213 12 6 Excess of expenditure over income .. .. 2,597,224 8 1.1 £2,807,553 7 9 £2,807,553 7 9 G. C. Fache, Commissioner of Pensions. 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 for rent, interest, and furniture for which there is no appropriation by Parliament. —G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.