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APPENDIX XV Payments and Receipts for the Year Ended 31st March, 1949, and for Preceding Four Years

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Item. 1948-49. 1947-48. 1946-47. 1945-46. 1944-45. Payments £ £ £ £ £ Allocation of revenue— Consolidated Fund (portion of * 16,023 14,235 16,196 revenue from national-endow-ment forests) Working Railways Account (sec- * 4,329 3,539 tion 24 (1), Finance Act, 1936) Local, bodies .. 29,219 21,078 25,750 17,114 12,799 General management charges— 187,714 Salaries 283,869 225,047 137,984 110,317 General expenses 168,373 144,973 130,770 102,275 56,019 Land purchase 34,188 11,640 18,296 30,098 38,957 Forestry projects under development and management— Exotic 1,039,630 811,495 710,376 377,910 346,743 Indigenous 157,503 135,698 79,023 58,808 41,912 Utilization : Sawmill, creosote plant, Q rrt 500,694 318,826 174,379 133,677 125,931 OEC. Pulp and paper making investiga23,670 25,023 12,369 tions, tests, and trials Totals 2,237,146 1,714,132 1,342,216 872,101 748,874 Receipts Indigenous forests receipts— Sales of standing timber 194,934 212,454 155,208 135,913 121,603 Timber royalties and trespass 27,382 14,585 11,481 13,451 9,250 Leases, grazing 2,822 2,083 2,229 2,865 1,611 Sawmill sites, industrial, &c. 381 378 359 672 308 Miscellaneous 20,247 16,526 16,419 8,960 9,124 Log sales from managed forests 129,983 84,864 62,432 67,053 54,716 Exotic forests: Poles, posts, fire57,544 52,525 39,975 38,643 45,938 wood, &c. Utilization projects— Sawn timber 214,366 109,716 98,703 63,451 22,529 Creosoted products 11,677 7,216 17,889 17,305 45,918 Box-shooks 187,212 207,192 134,839 182,187 129,126 Miscellaneous 16,168 23,072 12,840 9,532 9,875 Miscellaneous credits 35,960 32,665 37,953 48,292 10,802 Totals .. 898,676 763,276 590,327 588,324 460,800 ■* These items have ceased from 1st April, 1947, with the change-over to the new accounting procedure