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TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS DEPARTMENT— continued. Miscellaneous Reserves. —Working Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1923. £ s. d. £ s. d. To Salaries and wages .. .. 1,173 15 0 By Receipts .. .. .. .. 1,403 11 9 Repairs, freight and cartage, &c. .. 289 4 0 Net loss to Income and Expenditure Depreciation .. .. .. 631 4 0 Account .. .. .. 090 11 3 £2,094 3 0 £2,094 3 0 Passenger Booking Bureaux. —Working Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1923. £ s. d. £ s. d. To Ticket stock (at cost) at Ist April, 1922 11117 0 By Commission .. .. .. 3,745 910 Salaries .. .. .. .. 2,898 15 2 Ticket stock (at cost) at 31st March, Printing and stationery, rents, postages, 1923 .. .. .. .. 114 5 0 &c. .. .. .. .. 1,595 14 1 Net loss to Income and Expenditure Depreciation .. .. .. 38 10 5 Account .. .. .. 785 110 £4,644 16 8 £4,644 16 8 »- Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1923. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d. Capital Account —Liability to Treasury Land .. .. .. 183,929 6 0 at Ist April, 1922 .. .. 407,476 12 9 £ s. d. Sundry creditors .. .. .. 2,837 12 9 Buildings .. .. 104,163 511 Treasury Adjustment Aooount .. 44,291 0 4 Add additions .. 1,247 810 105,410 14 9 Less depreciation .. 2,853 10 8 102,557 4 1 Water and drainage systems .. .. 57,565 4 7 Add additions .. 240 14 10 57,805 19 5 Plant and machinery .. 23,605 3 1 Add additions .. 3,611 10 11 27,216 14 0 Less depreciation .. 1,014 12 2 26,202 1 10 Furniture and fittings .. 15,359 8 0 Add additions .. 79 13 4 15,439 1 4 Less depreciation .. 645 1 (i 14,793 19 10 Wharves and beacons .. 5,149 11 0 Less depreciation .. 257 9 6 4,892 I 6 Steamers and launches .. 4,743 12 9 Less depreciation .. 484 6 3 4,259 7 6 Bridges .. .. 3,229 1.1 4 Less depreciation .. 161 811 3,068 2 5 Motor-vehicles .. 369 0 0 Less depreciation .. 82 0 0 287 0 0 Linen, cutlery, crockery, tools, guiding equipment &c. .. .. .. 5,296 4 4 Live-stock .. .. .. .. 819 4 0 Telephone-line, Glade House, Milford .. 749 14 7 Sundry debtors .. .. .. 5,580 2 6 Consumable stores .. .. .. 1,058 8 11 Payments in advance .. .. 221 9 0 Excess of expenditure over income .. 43,084 19 11 £454,605 5 10 £454,605 5 10 S. J. Collett, For General Manager. J. Houston, Acting 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 for rent, interest, and the value of a depot taken over from another Department- for which there is no appropriation by Parliament. —G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.