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VALUATION DEPARTMENT. Income and Expenditure Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1923. Expenditure. £ s. d. Income. £ s. d. Advertising, books, newspapers, and other Fees charged for valuers' reports, &c. .. 29,735 2 0 publications .. .. .. 49 16 1 Local bodies'contributions accrued .. 7,231 6 0 Assessment Court expenses .. .. 469 13 3 Land-tax contribution accrued.. .. 7,231 6 0 Depreciation on office furniture, fittings, State Advances contribution .. .. 1,000 0 0 and equipment .. .. .. 263 4 2 Balance carried down .. .. 10,803 17 4 Fees to valuers , .. .. .. 7,407 6 6 Freight, cartage, and transport charges .. 49 18 0 Fuel, light, power, and water .. .. 28 1 5 Law-costs .. .. .. .. 101 16 6 Maps, tracings, and schedules of land transactions .. .. .. 102 19 11 Office-cleaning .. .. .. 21 1 2 Office expenses . / .. .. 1,008 10 8 Overtime and meal allowances.. .. 40 14 0 Payment to Post and Telegraph Department .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 Postages, telegrams, and rent. £ s. d. of boxes .. .. 941 10 4 Less amount prepaid, carried forward .. 13 10 0 928 0 4 Printing and stationery .. .. . 312 5 2 Rent .. .. .. .. 2,488 5 0 Revision of districts .. .. 577 6 11 Salaries.. .. .. .. 33,156 9 2 £ s. d. Telephone services .. 469 7 8 Less amount carried forward .. .. 145 10 0 323 17 8 Temporary assistance .. .. 2,107 0 0 Transfer and removal expenses of officers 186 5 9 Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. 6,328 8 7 Less unexpired season tickets .. .. 138 12 2 6,189 16 5 Typewriters—Repairs .. .. 28 17 3 £56,001 11 4 £56,001 11 4 £ s. d. £ s. d. Balance brought clown .. .. 10,803 17 4 Balance (excess cjf expenditure over in[nterost .. .. .. .. 704 2 2 come) .. .. .. .. 11,507 19 0 £11,507 19 0 £11,567 19 6 Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1923. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d. £ s. d. Capital Account, Ist April, 1922 .. 16,980 4 0 Office furniture, fittings, and Sundry creditors .. .. .. 2,593 11 0 equipment .. .. 3,176 3 1 Depreciation reserve .. .. .. 640 10 1 Less removals .. .. 8 17 0 Treasury Adjustment Account.. .. 30,581 411 3,167 5 7 Add additions .. .. 26 16 6 3,194 2 1 Offioe maps .. ..13,804 0 11 Add additions .. .. 651 19 7 14,456 0 6 Stationery .. .. .. 749 14 9 Sundry debtors— Local bodies' contributions .. .. 10,769 0 9 Land-tax contributions .. 7,231 6 0 Fees outstanding .. 1,425 5 4 Motor-cars (on account).. 1,304 14 11 20,730 7 0 Less bad and doubtful debts reserve .. 200 0 0 20,530 7 0 Telephone subscriptions prepaid .. 145 10 0 Unexpired season tickets .. .. 138 12 2 Post-office boxes prepaid .. .. 13 10 0 Excess of expenditure over income .. 11,567 19 6 £50,795 16 0 £50,795 16 0 F. W. Flanagan, Valuer-General. 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, and also charges for services rendered to the Public Works Department for which that Department possesses no parliamentary appropriation. —G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.