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APPENDIX VI Payments and Receipts for the Year Ended 31st March, 1948

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Item. 1944-45. | 1945-46. 1946-47. | 1947-48. Payments Allocation of revenue— £ £ £ £ Consolidated Fund (portion of revenue from national16,190 14,235 10,023* endowment forests) Working Railways Account (section 24 (]), Finance Act, 3,539 4,329 1936) Local bodies 12,799 17,114 25,750 21,078 General management charges— Salaries 110,317 137,984 187,714 225,047 General expenses 56,019 102,275 130,770 144,973 Land purchase 38,957 30,098 18,296 11,640 Forestry projects under direct management —- Exotic 346,743 377,910 710,376 811,495 Indigenous 41,912 58,808 79,023 135,698 Utilization: Sawmill, creosote plant, &c. 125,931 133,677 174,379 318,826 Pulp and paper making 12,369 25,023 Totals .. 748,874 872,101 1,342,216 1,714,132 Receipts Indigenous forests receipts— Timber sales 121,603 135,913 155,208 212,454 Timber royalties and trespass 9,250 13,451 11,481 14,585 Leases, grazing 1,611 2,865 2,229 2,083 Sawmill sites, industrial, &c. 308 672 359 378 Miscellaneous 9,124 8,960 16,419 16,526 Log sales from managed forests 54,716 67,053 62,432 84,864 Exotic forests: Poles, posts, firewood, &c. 45,938 38,643 39,975 52,525 Utilization projects— Sawn timber 22,529 63,451 98,703 109,716 Creosoted products 45,918 17,305 17,889 7,216 Box-shooks 129,126 182,187 134,839 207,192 Miscellaneous 9,875 9,532 12,840 23,072 Miscellaneous credits 10,802 48,292 37,953 32,665 Totals 460,800 588,324 590,327 763,276 Receipts from national-endowment, indigenous forests 47,426 47,157 37,366 52,911 (included in above) * This amount was payable to 1946-47. The amount accrued in 1947-48—£10,886 has subsequently been paid.