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DEPARTMENT OP HEALTH—continued. Balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1937. Liabilities. Assets. Capital Account— £ s. d. £ s. d. Land— £ g. d. £ s. d. Expenditure out of Public Institutions .. .. 24,363 18 6 Works Fund to Ist April, Quarantine stations, &c. .. 2,473 6 6 1936 .. .. .. 334,080 9 7 26,837 5 0 Expenditure out of Public Buildings— Works Fund for year Institutions .. .. 108,811 9 4 ended 31st March, 1937 13,608 1 6 Quarantine stations, &c. .. 26,163 10 1 134,974 19 5 347,688 11 1 Stores on hand— Expenditure out of Consoli- Institutions .. .. 4,771 13 10 dated Fund . . . . 26,552 11 1 Sera, vaccine, and laboratory 1,296 6 2 374,241 22 Head Office bulk store, &c... 6,361 2 9 Creditors— Dental Hostel . . .. 247 7 5 Departmental .. .. 1,210 8 8 12 676 10 2 Sundry .. .. .. 72,075 16 6 Stores afloat— 73,286 5 2 Institutions .. .. 72 5 3 Institutional fees paid in advance .. .. 169 11 6 Other .. .. .. 2,669 18 1 Medical practitioners fees paid in advance .. 453 15 11 2,742 3 4 Institutional Pees Suspense Account.. .. 541 15 0 Motor-cars, motor-cycles, ambuPromotion of Health Fund .. . . 384 1 1 lances, and lorries — Writings-off, Suspense Account— £ s. d. Institutions .. .. 228 0 4 Institutions .. .. 5,414 7 4 Other .. .. .. 6,.724 3 1 Other .. .. .. 253 13 5 — 6,952 3 5 5,668 0 9 Live-stock and consumable farm Treasury Adjustment Account .. .. 966,820 18 9 stores at institutions — Live-stock .. .. 390 5 7 Other .. .. .. 66 1 9 456 7 4 Furniture, fittings, and equipment — Dental Hostel . . .. 725 0 0 Institutions . . . . 6,587 4 4 Other .. .. .. 7,862 4 1 15,174 8 5 Mechanical office appliances— Institutions .. .. 58 17 9 Other .. .. .. 307 4 11 366 2 8 Libraries (other than institutional) .. .. 563 10 1 Push bicycles— Institutions .. .. 25 7 9 Other .. .. .. 34 13 8 60 1 5 Plant and machinery at institutions .. .. 139 16 0 Other improvements— Institutions .. .. 15,135 15 3 Quarantine Stations .. 1,256 2 3 16,391 17 6 Debtors — Sundry .. .. .. 76,542 19 3 Departmental . . .. 155 2 3 76,698 1 6 Lease : Dental Hostel, Wellington . . .. 936 10 6 Assets in Suspense— Institutions .. .. 5,414 7 4 Other .. .. .. 253 13 5 5,668 0 9 National Development Expenditure Account .. 155,969 6 11 Cash in Post Office or in transit .. .. 637 6 5 Cash on deposit (Treasury) . . .. 384 1 1 ; General Revenue Account: Excess of expenditure over income .. .. .. 963,936 18 5 £1,421,565 10 4 £1,421,565 10 4 A. Keisenberg, Secretary. W. T. Findlay, A.R.A.N.Z., Accountant. 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 explanatory notes dealing with departmental accounts generally as appearing at commencement of parliamentary return 8.-l [Part IV].—J. H. Fowler, Controller and Auditor-General.

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