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AUDIT DEPARTMENT. Income and Expenditure Account foe the Year ended 31st March, 1939. Expenditure. £ s. d. Income. £ s. dSalaries .. .. •• 65,805 1 9 Fees due .. .. .. •• •• 38,062 7 4 Advertising, books, &c. .. .. .. 203 10 7 Excess of expenditure over income .. .. 43,353 5 3 Allowances : London and Samoa .. • • 899 1 2 Office fittings and requisites .. .. .. 148 3 2 Postages .. •• •• •• •■ 324 7 0 Bent 1,624 15 6 Telephone services .. .. • • • • 282 13 7 Temporary assistance .. .. • • 871 2 1 Travelling-expenses .. .. ■■ 7,612 10 2 Transfer expenses : London .. .. .. 312 510 Printing and stationery .. .. ■ ■ 415 5 8 Transfer and removal expenses .. .. 1,268 1 4 Overtime and meal allowances .. .. 1,314 9 0 Compassionate grant .. .. .. •• 11200 Depreciation— £ s. d. Mechanical appliances .. .. 46 16 3 Furniture and fittings .. .. 103 15 4 Books .. .. • ■ • - 69 7 0 219 18 7 Assets provisionally written off .. .. 2 7 2 £81,415 12 7 £81,415 12 7 £ s. d. £ s- d. Balance .. .. •• 43,353 5 3 Sale of stores .. .. .. ■■ 2 0 0 Interest on capital .. .. •• 54 11 8 Excess of expenditure over income, carried forward 43,405 16 11 £43,407 16 11 £43,407 16 11 Balance-sheet or the Audit Department as at 31st March, 1939. Liabilities. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d. Capital .. •• •• •• •• 1,475 18 11 Furniture and fittings .. .. •• 518 510 Treasury Adjustment Account .. .. 45,341 7 2 Mechanical appliances .. .. .. 327 13 6 Creditors- £ s. d. Books 629 9 7 Departmental . . .. .. 147 10 9 Stationery .. .. .. .. • • 158 13 9 Sundrv •• •• -• 402 18 7 Stamps .. .. .. .. •• 75 11 7 550 9 4 Debtors: Sundry .. .. . • • ■ 2,257 13 9 Fees paid in advance .. .. .. ■■ 519 6 Assets in. Suspense .. .. .. .. 2 7 2 Writing-off, Suspense .. .. ■■ •• 2 7 2 Excess of expenditure over income .. .. 43,405 lb 11 £47,376 2 1 £47,376 2 1 Cyril G. Collins, F.R.A.N.Z., Deputy Controller and Auditor-General. 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 explanatory notes dealing with departmental accounts generally as appearing at commencement of parliamentary return 8.-l [Pt. IV].—J. H. Fowler, Controller and Auditor-General.

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