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APPENDIX V Exports of Sawn Timber and other Forest Produce

APPENDIX VI Payments and Receipts for the Year ended 31st March, 1943

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(From information supplied by the Comptroller of Customs. All figures refer to the years ended 31st December, 1940-42.) 1940. 1941. 1942. Item. — Quantity. Value. Quantity. | Value. Quantity. Value. Ft. Bin. £ Ft. Bm. £ Ft. Bin. £ White-pine .. 732,000 8,000 835,000 8,200 334,000 3,768 Rimu .. .. .. 11,808,000 100,100 13,960,000 143,800 5,484,000 61,579 Beech .. .. .. 1,575,000 20,600 1,273,000 18,700 142,000 2,341 Matai .. .. .. 747,000 7,700 213,000 2,400 31,000 370 Kauri .. .. .. 174,000 6,900 55,000 2,500 50,000 2,295 Insignia pine .. .. 1,889,000 33,100 2,680,000 43,900 1,469,000 24,326 Other New Zealand .. 397,000 8,000 12,000 500 2,000 132 Foreign .. .. 84,000 1,000 38,000 600 36,000 1,221 Total .. .. 17,406,000 185,400 19,066,000 220,600 7,548,000 96,032 Tons. Tons. Tons. Kauri-gum .. .. 1,683 87,450 1,421 88,643 1,061 74,737 Tanning-bark Fungus .. .. 22 2,382 24 2,911

Item. 1942-43. 1941-42. 1940-41. 1939-40. Payments I Allocation of revenue — £ £ £ £ Consolidated Fund (portion of revenue from 16,721 20,442 16,151 14,416 national-endowment forests) Working Railways Account (section 24 (1), 898 1,151 1,567 1,923 Finance Act, 1936) Local bodies .. . .. .. 14,767 17,080 16,593 15,612 General management chargesSalaries .. .. .. 79,793 81,662 77,834 70,858 General expenses .. .. 34,370 28,463 31,070 27,168 Land purchase .. .. .. .. 25,307 1,996 6,788 1,884 Forestry projects under direct management — Exotic .. .. .. .. 220,598 183,561 234,704 293,884 Indigenous .. .. .. .. 22,945 35,376 32,724 29,578 Utilization: Sawmill, creosote plant, &c. .. 100,720 136,090 148,545' 120,344 Miscellaneous : Expenses of raising loans and . . 978 911 interest on temporary advances Totals .. .. .. .. 516,119 506,799 566,887 575,667 Receipts Indigenous forests receipts— Timber sales 134,396 127,926 120,753 102,957 Timber royalties and trespass . . .. 9,467 9,532 8,539 12,130 Leases, grazing .. .. .. 1,492 1,523 1,558 1,618 Sawmill-sites, industrial, &c. .. .. 239 329 402 401 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 8,017 8,274 6,937 10,414 Log sales from managed forests .. .. 30,596 31,296 26,153 21,662 Exotic forests: Poles, posts, firewood, &c... 54,234 15,341 13,207 10,518 Utilization projects — Sawn timber.. .. .. .. 40,607 45,815 28,948 342 Creosoted products .. .. .. 23,637 19,262 7,996 314 Box shooks .. .. .. .. 79,109 32,88,3 Miscellaneous.. 4,767 3,642 2,470 282 Totals .. .. .. .. 386,564 295,823 216,963 160,638 Receipts from national-endowment indigenous 48,289 45,374 27,408 22,114 forests (included in above)