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STATE FOREST SERVlCE—continued. STATE FORESTS ACCOUNT. Income and Expenditure Account foe the Year ended 31st March, 1935. General Revenue Account. Expenditure. £ s . d. Income £ s d -P ri To Salaries and contributions to Public Service By Timber royalties .. 6 294 11 11 Superannuation Fund, &c. .. ..10,664 8 9 Timber sales .. .. ' 70'142 6 7 General management of State Timber trespass .. .. '2411 4 lorests— £ Postages, cables, stationery, Leases "6,461 9 10 printing, &c . . 755 17 10 Grazing .. .. 1 717 19 0 Payments to other Departments Sawmill sites ' 91 IS 1 for services rendered 139 6 5 Industrial .. .. 1 067 8 10 Forest reconnaissance, timber Miscellaneous .. .. '550 10 10 cruising, &c. .. .. 5,687 19 6 Permits, miscellaneous .. 4 0 10 Legal expenses, &c. .. .. 101 16 0 , ~ _ Office rent, heating, lighting &c. 516 16 7 License and transfer fees .. .. 309 5 6 Transportation expenses and up- l nterest on promissory notes .. " 19 ig in keep of motor-vehicles .. 1,047 4 6 Fees for inspections .. ... 428 17 8 ravelling and transfer and re- Rents of departmental houses . 228 9 1 moval expenses 1,252 16 10 Kauri-gum, sale of, and royalty .. " 16 2 0 Maintenance of buddings and Administration expenses: Forest Amendment other departmental property 320 15 0 Act, 1926 .. .. Bg9 15 „ „ . 9,822 12 8 Miscellaneous .. .. 470 c o Forest-fire prevention— " " Communication and control, locomotion, travelling - expenses, &c. .; .. 141 14 0 Wages (fire-fighting) .. 747 4 1 888 18 1 Education — Photographic records, &c. .. 10 9 3 Preparation of service bulletins, publications, &c. .. .. 60 6 11 70 16 2 Forest research— Forest ecology .. .. 944 Forest entomology .. .. 20 0 11 Silvicultura 1-management studies, &c. .. .. 159 11 8 Timber-products testing .. 460 2 5 Travelling expenses and allowances .. .. .. 106 5 6 755 4 10 Aliorestation— Work for other Departments .. 8 9 2 Travelling expenses and allowances .. .. .. 18 5 Miscellaneous— 9 17 7 Yearly rental, Otanewainuku .. 74 0 0 Rebate of royalty on timber exported .. .. .. 261 17 1 335 17 1 Depreciation .. .. .. ..2 169 15 11 Bad debts 15 8 Rebates .. .. .. .. .. 3373 19 7 Balance carried forward .. .. .. 52 709 3 5 £82,225 9 9 £82,225 9 9 Allocation of Revenue Account. To Consolidated Fund— £ g d "tiASCtioSS.. 16 ™ 1 :: 7.117 3 O Account .. 3 5 Local authorities: " Fifths " of revenue : Finance Act, 1924, section 17 .. .. 5,71411 2 General reserve: Indigenous .. .. 39,877 9 3 £52,709 3 5 £52,709 3 5 Nurseries and Plantations. To^™° n ! oanS f V " •• -.80,026 15 By Interest on investments L,3 d « * "7' mana S ement Interest charged on nurseries and plantations.. 138,094 17 9 Free trees to schools'and local bodies" 1,077 14 4 Sons § ° n and planta_ „ Tree-seed condemned and destroyed.. .. 735 17 9 " '* ** * * " 12,179 14 8 Premium on loan conversion .. .. 1,050 10 0 Loss on— Rotorua Nursery .. ~ , , 670 1 2 Westland Nursery .. . . .. 150 16 5 Hanmer Nursery .. . , .. 13 15 3 General reserve : Afforestation ... .. 66,985 17 5 £150,883 4 10 £150,883 4 10

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