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ELECTORAL DEPARTMENT. Income and Expenditure Account foe the Year ended 31st March, 1935. Expenditure. £ s. d. Income. £ s. d. To Salaries .. .. •• •• .. 4,990 13 7 By Miscellaneous revenue .. •• •• 918 6 Allowance to Postmaster Registrars .. .. ISO 0 0 Balance carried down .. .. .. 8,646 9 8 Postage and telegrams .. •• 324 17 11 Fuel, light, telephones .. •• •• 78 6 11 Printing and stationery •. . • • • 315 12 4 Rent 682 17 4 Travelling-expenses . .. • • • • 72 3 9 Obsolete rolls written off .. .. •• 2,040 5 0 Sundries .. .. •• •• •• 1114 £8,656 8 2 £8,656 8 2 £ s. d. £ s. d. To Balance brought down 8,646 98 By Balance carried to Balance-sheet .. .. 8,743 10 8 Interest on capital .. .. ■ • • • 97 1 0 £8,743 10 8 £8,743 10 8 Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1935. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d. Capital .. .. •• •• 1,358 1 4 Furniture, fittings, and mechanical appliances .. 1,210 8 J Creditors, departmental' 115 7 6 Postage-stamps on hand 94 4 3 Treasury adjustment .. .. •• 8,628 3 2 Stock of rolls .. •• •• Stock of maps .. • • • • • • 66 u Excess of expenditure over income .. .. 8,743 10 8 £10,101 12 0 £10,101 12 0 Note.—The following charges are included for which the Department possesses no parliamentary appropriation: (a) Rental assessed by Public Works Department; (6) interest on capital. „ G. G. Hodgkins, Chief Electoral Ofiicer. G. 0. Hall, 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, subject to the departmental notes enfaced thereon.—J. H. Eowler, Deputy Controller and Auditor-General.

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