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STAMP DUTIES DEPARTMENT. Income and Expenditure Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1923. Expenditure. £ s. cl. Income. £ s. d. To Salaries .'. .. .. 18,592 0 4 By Adhesive stamps .. .. 72,421 8 2 Relieving and other allowances .. 72 13 7 Duty on instruments .. .. 537,731 8 8 Printing and stationery .. 2,053 Oil Death duties .. .. .. 1,820,685 1 8 Postages and telephone subscriptions J. ,522 18 0 Gift duty .. .. .. 48,550 3 8 Cost printing stamps and amuse- Crown and Native rates. . .. 418 5 5 ments-tax tickets .. .. 542 7 3 Fines and penalties .. .. 2,900 14 5 Fuel, light, and cleaning .. 182 15 0 Impressed Stamps .. .. 122,595 10 9 Office and general expenses .. 271 10 5 Company licenses .. .. 58,209 I 0 Freight and cartage .. .. 109 II 5 Bank composition .. .. 203,989 11 9 Law-costs ..' .. .. 99.11 5 Totalizator-tax .. .. 010,355 10 5 Valuation fees .. .. .. 95 17 0 Amusements-tax .. .. 137,548 7 9 Travelling expenses and allowances 343 10 0 Miscellaneous reoeipts .. .-■ 1,454 5 5 Compassionate allowance to Mrs. P, Corliss.. .. .. .. 1,500 0 0 Rent of offices.. .. .. 2,344 0 0 Depreciation .. .. .. 500 3 11 Balance carried down .. .. 3,588,640 19 10 £3,016,931 9 1 £3,616,931 9 1 £ s. d. £ s. cl. To Interest, 41 per cent, of £9,708 18s. 4d. 430 18 0j By Balance brought down .. .. 3,588,040 19 10 Excess of income over expenditure 3,588,204 1 10 £3,588,640 19 10 £3,588,640 19 10 Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1923. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Capital at Ist April, 1922 .. .. 9,708 18 4 Cash in hands of reoeivers .-. .. 117 18 6 Sundry depositors. . .. .. 110 5 1 Deposit. Account .. .. .. 116 5 1 Sundry creditors .. .. . . 815 17 5 Office furniture and fitDeath'and Gift Duty Suspense Account 4,371 1 0 tingsat Ist April, 1922 2,446 12 10 Depreciation reserve .. .. 1,730 3 6 Additions .. .. 170 4 (i Excess income over expenditure .. 3,588,204 1 10 — 2,616 17 4 Mechanical appliances at Ist April, 1922 .. 500 0 0 Additions .. .. 119 5 0 619 5 6 Less transfers .. 25 0 0 594 5 6 Library .. .. .. .. 175 0 0 Plant and machinery at Ist April, 1922 .. 6,587 5 0 Additions .. .. 112 17 4 . 0,700 2 4 Stock of paper and stamps on hand.. 10,151 0 3 Sundry debtors .. .. .. 394,687 11 2 Telephone subscriptions paid in advance 102 0 3 Treasury Adjustment Account .. 3,189,085 0 9 £3,001,940 7 2 £3,604,946 7 2 D. G. Clark, Commissioner of Stamp Duties. 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 and interest for which the Department possesses no parliamentary appropriation. — G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General,