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NAVAL DEFENCE. Income and Expenditure Account fob, the Year ended 31st March, 1931. Expenditure.. Income. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. By Forfeited deferred pay .. .. .. 798 910 To Pay and salaries .. .. 193,047 4 6 Purchase of discharges .. .. ■• 107 2 6 Add writings-off .. 5 19 Rents from buildings .. .. .. 256 3 4 193,052 6 3 Balance carried down .. .. .. 428,654 16 10 Clothing and victualling .. 37,045 12 1 Add writings-off .. 1,917 15 10 38,963 7 11 Medical services .. .. •• 2,048 14 3 Repairs to H.M. ships .. .. .. 65,120 3 9 Calliope Dock subsidy .. .. • • 5,000 0 0 Lighting .. .. .. ■• 1.289 11 1 Oiler " Nucula" .. .. •• 6,415 19 8 Coal and oil fuel 9,870 10 6 £ s. d. Base stores and stores, Naval 37,490 13 4 Add writings-off .. 78 6 8 — 37,569 0 0 Works on Base .. .. 1,208 310 Add writings-off .. 873 4 3 2,081 8 1 Reserves (various) .. .. •• 9,155 5 1 Freight 3,688 0 9 Office fittings .. .. .. •■ 311 10 Passages 10,024 7 1 Posta|es 301 3 1 Printing and stationery .. .. • • 369 18 1 Training in England .. .. •■ 1,560 8 6 Advertising .. . • • ■ • • .571 14 6 Allowances in lieu of quarters .. .. 487 18 4 Deferred pay .. .. ■• ■• 35,394 5 6 Unemployment Fund .. .. ■ ■ 400 0 0 Panama Canal dues .. .. •• 597 11 8 Widows' pension .. • • ■ ■ 339 10 9 Miscellaneous .. ..■ .. ■■ 1,026 17 8 Rental assessment .. • • • • 315 0 0 Travelling-expenses, M. F. Jones .. .. 7 13 0 Depreciation .. .. •• •• 4,162 5 2 £429,816 12 6 £429,816 12 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. To Balance brought down .. .. .. 428,654 16 10 |By Recoveries from previous years .. .. 717 6 Interest on capital .. .. •• 11,115 211 Excess of expenditure over income.. .. 564,762 2 3 Singapore base 125,000 0 0 £564,769 19 9 £564,769 19 9 Note. The following charges are included for which the Department possesses no parliamentary appropriation : (a) Rental value assessed by Public Works Department; (6) interest at 4£ per cent, on capital as at Ist April, 1930. Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1931. Liabilities. £ s. d. I Assets. £ s. d. Capital Account, Ist Apru, 1930 .. .. 247,003 411 I Land at Devonport .. .. •• 26,693 12 0 Sundry creditors— £ s. d. j Buildings 56,536 0 1 Departmental .. 192 16 2 ! Plant and fittings 39,138 7 7 Other .. •■ 13,084 10 4 Stores accounts— £ s. d. 13,277 6 6 Clothing and victualling .. 13,000 0 0 Depreciation Reserve .. .. •• 13,426 17 11 Naval and armament .. 98,309 11 1 Amounts held on deposit— £ s. d. Coal and oil fuel .. .. 6,221 14 10 Postal orders .. 437 3 6 ; Medical 360 0 0 Remittances .. .. 3,614 15 3 117,891 511 Deferred pay .. .. 61,938 3 9 Stationery .. ft 0 0 ■ 65,990 2 6 : Stamps on hand .. .. ■■ •• 15 12 6 Writings-off, Suspense Account .. .. 2,191 42 i Sundry debtors—Departmental .. .. 1114 6 Treasurv Adjustment Account .. .. 531,365 56 j Assets, in Suspense .. .. •• 2,189 7•> Debtors, in Suspense .. • • ■ ■ 1 16 9 Deposits Account — £ s. d. Postal orders .. .. 437 3 6 Remittances .. ■• 3,614 15 3 Deferred pav ■• .. 61,938 3 9 65,990 2 6 Excess of expenditure over income .. .. 564,762 2 3 £873,254 1 6 \ £873,254 1 6 V. Webster, Naval Secretary. 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, subject to the above departmental note.—G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.

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