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Accounts, 5th April 1847.
—No. 13.—
Receipts and Expenditure of the New Zealand Company, from the 6th of April 1846 to the 5th of April 1847.
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
Amount on Hand on the 6th of April 1846, viz:— |
Cash in the House |
30 |
7 |
8 |
|
|
|
Ditto at the Bankers' |
4,566 |
18 |
2 |
|
|
|
Ditto with the Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland, &c., to be hereafter accounted for |
530 |
12 |
0 |
|
|
|
Bills Receivable |
5,229 |
2 |
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10,357 |
0 |
3 |
Receipts.
Interest on Investments, Fees on Transfers, and Sundries |
203 |
6 |
2 |
Loans raised upon Debentures, in addition to previous £76,500 |
10,000 |
0 |
0 |
Loan from Her Majesty's Government, (part of £100,000 authorised by the Act of Parliament) |
80,000 |
0 |
0 |
Loan from the Bankers, in anticipation of the Loan last mentioned |
5,000 |
0 |
0 |
Total Receipts |
£105,560 |
6 |
5 |
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[Receipt and Expenditure.]
Expenditure.
Home Establishment and Expenses.
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
Rent, Taxes, Insurance, Repairs, House Expenses, and Sundries |
538 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
Advertising and Printing, Books and Maps, Stamps, Stationery, Postage, Carriage of Parcels, and Incidental Expenses |
1,068 |
7 |
7 |
|
|
|
Furniture and Fixtures |
6 |
8 |
3 |
|
|
|
Salaries of Officers and others on the Company's Home Establishment |
1,243 |
5 |
8 |
|
|
|
Law and Parliamentary Expenses |
796 |
2 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,652 |
5 |
2 |
Emigration Service.
Allowance towards a Cabin Passage to Nelson, and Expenses incidental to Ships despatched to New Zealand under the Company's sanction and subject to its Regulations, &c. |
|
|
|
108 |
13 |
6 |
Colonial Expenses.
Bills drawn from New Zealand, and Expenses, &c. incidental to the Colony, paid in England |
4,410 |
4 |
7 |
|
|
|
Proportion of Salaries of Colonial Officers paid in England |
753 |
14 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,163 |
18 |
8 |
Miscellaneous.
New Edinburgh Deposits, returned |
12 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
Interest on Debentures |
3,254 |
12 |
9 |
|
|
|
Debentures paid off |
32,500 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
Interest on Loans on New Edinburgh Deposits returned, and Sundries |
1,172 |
6 |
0 |
|
|
|
Loans from Bankers returned |
20,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
Land purchased by the Company at Wellington and Nelson, as a Private Estate |
2,247 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
59,186 |
2 |
0 |
Total Expenditure |
|
|
|
£68,110 |
19 |
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Cash in the House |
21 |
4 |
1 |
|
|
|
Ditto at the Bankers' |
12,434 |
7 |
8 |
|
|
|
Ditto with Overend Gurney & Co., against the Bankers' Liability on Bills to be drawn from New Zealand |
15,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
Ditto with the Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland, &c., to be hereafter accounted for |
530 |
12 |
0 |
|
|
|
Promissory Notes |
9,463 |
3 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
37,449 |
7 |
1 |
Total |
|
|
|
£105,560 |
6 |
5 |
N.B. Of the Guarantee given by the Company's Bankers to meet Colonial Bills, there remains an unexhausted Balance of £15,938. 7s. 0d.
George Bailey
,
Accountant.
We hereby Certify that we have carefully examined the foregoing Accounts, and we declare the same to be correct.
Richard Edward Arden,
Joseph Dowson
,
Auditors.