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LANDS AND SURVEY DEPARTMENT. %• AUCKLAND MUSEUM ENDOWMENT ACCOUNT. Receipts and Payments Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1936. Receipts. £ s. d. £ s. d. Payments. £ s. d. £ s. d. Balance —Cash in Local Bodies Deposit Payments to Auckland Museum Trustees Accounts of the Receiver of Land Re- under section 4, Auckland Museum Envenue at North Auckland, Auckland, and dowment Act, 1882— Gisborne—■ Rents and interest .. .. 34 0 1 On account rents and interest .. .. 0 14 10 Sales .. .. .. 26 2 5 Sales of land .. .. .. 17 1 6 60 2 6 17 16 4 Administration expenses .. .. .. .. 2 5 4 Sales of land .. .. .. .. .. 9 0 11 Rents and interest .. .. .. .. 35 10 7 £62 7JO £62 7 ĪŌ Revenue Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1936. Dr. £ s. d. Cr. £ s . d. Administration expenses .. .. .. .. 2 4 7 Accrued rents and interest .. .. .. 311211 Balance carried down .. .. .. .. 29 8 4 £31 12 11 £31 12 11 Amount due to Auckland Museum Trustees of rents and £ s. d. £ s . d. interest as per section 4, Auckland Museum Endow- Balance from previous year .. .. . . 014 7 ment Act, 1882 .. .. .. 34 0 1 Balance brought down .. .. .. 29 8 4 Balance carried forward .. .. .. .. 3172 £34 0 1 £34 0 1 Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1936. Liabilities. £ s. d. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d. Auckland Museum Trustees—Value of Land .. .. .. .. .. ~ 683 13 3 Land endowed under Auckland Sundry debtors for rents .. .. .. 0 10 Museum Endowment Act, 1882 .. 10,000 0 0 Sundry debtors for sales of land .. .. .. 147 10 0 Less repayments to trustees in re- Revenue Account .. .. .. .. 3172 spect of sales of land .. .. 9,309 17 5 690 2 7 Sundry creditors —- Public Account (surplus of assets) .. 141 0 8 Interest on sales .. .. .. 3 17 8 Rent .. .. .. .. 0 0 6 144 18 10 £835 1 5 £835 l 5 W. Robertson, Under-Secretary for Lands. Wm. E. Shaw, Chief Accountant. I hereby certify that the Statement of Receipts and Payments, Revenue 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.—J. H. Fowler, Deputy Controller' and Auditor-General.

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