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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT —continued. Registrar-General's Office. Expenditure. £ s. d. Income. £ s. d. To Salaries .. .. .. •• .. 11,406 11 6 By Registration and other feesRegistration of births, deaths, and marriages— Registration of births, deaths, and marriages.. 17.137 4 ft Payment to non-permanents .. .. 904 15 10 Dentists Act .. .. • • • - Payment to Post Office .. .. .. 1,580 11 10 Balance .. .. .. •• •• 219 0 0 Postage .. .. . • • • • • ® ® Printing and stationery .. .. .. 754 6 10 Rents 1,272 18 0 Sundries .. .. .. • • • ■ 281 12 8 Suspense Account .. .. •• •• 3135 Depreciation .. .. • • • • 202 410 £17,373 4 5 £17,373 4 5 £ s. d. £ s. d. To Interest on capital 113 11 11 By Balance, being excess expenditure over income .. 332 11 11 Balance .. ■. • • • • • • 219 0 0 £332 11 11 £332 11 11 Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1932. Liabilities. Assets. Capital— £ s. d. £ s. d. Buildings s - ' ■ s. c. Public Works Fund .. ..523,078 16 4 Brick 236,089 3 8 Consolidated Fund .. .. 50,516 15 9 Wood 73,718 11 3 573,595 12 1 309,807 14 11 rreditors _ Sites 211,244 0 0 Sundrv 2,111 11 10 Patent Office Library .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 Departmental' .. 819 16 8 Office furniture and fittings .. 43,244 19 4 1 2,931 8 6 Less writings - off, Suspense Depreciation Reserve .. .. •• 91,581 8 6 Account .. .. 75 17 6 4;J jgy j 1( -, Mechanical appliances .. .. .. 4,374 15 4 Debtors — Sundry .. .. •- 1 > 634 14 10 Departmental .. .. 246 18 10 1,881 13 8 Less writings - off, Suspense Account .. •• 20 0 0 ■ 1,861 13 8 Stores on hand .. —> • • • 745 7 4 Official stamps on hand .. .. 523 13 8 Payments in advance .. .. • • 821 0 5 Treasury Adjustment Account .. .. 89,747 7 1 Excess of expenditure over income— Courts .. •• 9,303 19 7 Registrar-General's Office .. 332 11 11 9,636 11 6 Less excess income over expenditure (Patent Office, £6,733 15s. 7d. ; Bankruptcy, £2,089 Is. Id.) .. 8,822 16 8 * 1 813 14 10 £668,108 9 1 £668,108 9 1 Note -The following charges are included for which the Department possesses no parliamentary appropriation: (a) Rental value as assessed by Public Works Department; (b) interest at 4| per cent, on capital. R. P. Ward, Under-Secretary. I hereby certify that the Income and Expenditure Accounts 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. —J. H. Fowler, Deputy Controller and Auditor-General.

KAURI-GUM INDUSTRY ACCOUNT. Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1932. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. * *• d ' Capital: Debentures at 4 cent 57,000 0 0 Bd£fc. Ace.unt, A„,.e , »u,„ of,«L,.t,e, 7,3g 11 7 Writings-off reserve .. .. • • •• 7,268 10 & brum on nan .. Treasury Adjustment Aecounfc .. .. >M» . « « , I Kauri-gum Control Board .. 249 10 7 Departmental .. .. .. 40 0 0 Miscellaneous .. .. • • 65 12 8 355 3 3 Investments, Public Debt Redemption Fund .. 829 19 6 Loss in Suspense .. .. • • • • 58 18 4 Accumulated loss to 31st March, 1931 (account abolished) .. •• •• •• 71,336 12 2 £82,227 18 6 £82,227 18 6 W. Robertson, Under-Secretary for Lands. Wm. E. Shaw, Accountant. I hereby certify that the Balance-sheet has been duly examined and compared with the relative books and documents submitted for audit, and correctly states the position as disclosed thereby The followmg comment is appended : Stocks are shown at book value pending disposal.—G. F. C. Campbell, Controller and Auditor-General.

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