	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Grant and appropriation of £74,987,706 out of Consolidated Fund.
3	Grant and appropriation of £58,156,058 out of separate accounts.
4	Grant and appropriation of £10,222,514 out of accounts outside the Public Account.
5	Power to make contracts in excess of appropriation.
6	Indemnity as to unauthorized expenditure of £1,498,504 16s. 2d. and debts irrecoverable, £1,078,333 3s. 8d.
7	Payment to local authorities for construction of roads, &c.
8	Money appropriated for roads, &c. defined
9	Payments for which no specific appropriation.
10	Payments to local authorities for construction of main highways.
11	Authority to transfer £21,000,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts.
	FIRST SCHEDULE
	SECOND SCHEDULE
	THIRD SCHEDULE
	FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorized Expenditure Account for the Year 1945–46
	FIFTH SCHEDULE

An Act to appropriate and apply certain Sums of Money out of the Consolidated Fund and other Accounts to the Services of the Year ending on the Thirty-first Day of March, Nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Present Session.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,—We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the House of Representatives of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted: And be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 1946.

2 Grant and appropriation of £74,987,706 out of Consolidated Fund.

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the Consolidated Fund, towards making good the supplies granted to His Majesty for the services of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and paid out of the Consolidated Fund under the provisions of section forty-seven of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, and the several Imprest Supply Acts passed during this present session, do not exceed the sum of seventy-four million nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and six pounds.

(2)

The sums hereinbefore authorized to be applied, together with the fees collected by such public officers as are authorized to retain the same in lieu of salary, are hereby appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the several votes specified in the First Schedule hereto.

3 Grant and appropriation of £58,156,058 out of separate accounts.

Ibid.

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the respective accounts mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto, towards making good the supplies granted to His Majesty for the services as aforesaid, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and paid out of the said accounts under the provisions of section forty-seven of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, and the several Imprest Supply Acts passed during this present session, do not exceed the sum of fifty-eight million one hundred and fifty-six thousand and fifty-eight pounds.

(2)

The sums hereinbefore authorized to be applied are hereby appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the several votes specified in the Second Schedule hereto.

(3)

Where any of the moneys appropriated by this section for the construction, maintenance, and supervision of roads, bridges, and other public works are by the estimates for the current financial year as approved by the House of Representatives allocated for the construction, maintenance, or supervision of any particular road or bridge, the moneys so allocated, or any portion thereof, may be expended for the construction or maintenance of any other road or bridge (within the district of the same local authority) for which no specific provision is made by the said estimates.

4 Grant and appropriation of £10,222,514 out of accounts outside the Public Account.

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the accounts outside the Public Account mentioned in the Third Schedule hereto, towards making good the supplies granted to His Majesty for the services as aforesaid, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and paid out of the said accounts under the provisions of section forty-seven of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, and the several Imprest Supply Acts passed during this present session, do not exceed the sum of ten million two hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred and fourteen pounds.

(2)

The sums hereinbefore authorized to be applied are hereby appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the several votes specified in the Third Schedule hereto.

5 Power to make contracts in excess of appropriation.

It shall be lawful for the Governor-General, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, to enter into any contracts, or to incur any liabilities, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, for carrying on the works and services for which money is appropriated by this Act.

6 Indemnity as to unauthorized expenditure of £1,498,504 16s. 2d. and debts irrecoverable, £1,078,333 3s. 8d.

Ibid., pp. 11, 28, and 32

Whereas the Minister of Finance has, under the authority of sections three, fifty-one, and fifty-eight of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, issued during the twelve months ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-six, in excess of or without the appropriation of Parliament, the respective sums mentioned in the Fourth Schedule hereto, out of the Consolidated Fund and the other accounts mentioned in the said Schedule, amounting in the whole to the sum of one million four hundred and ninety-eight thousand five hundred and four pounds sixteen shillings and twopence, and has caused the said sums to be applied to the several purposes and services mentioned in the said Fourth Schedule, and has also discharged from the Public Account and other accounts the sum of one million and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and thirty-three pounds three shillings and eightpence mentioned in the said Schedule as being moneys due to but irrecoverable or abandoned by the Crown, together with the value of stores written off departmental accounts: Be it enacted that the application and discharge of the said sums are hereby sanctioned.

7 Payment to local authorities for construction of roads, &c.

Out of the moneys appropriated by this Act for the construction of public roads, and such other public works as are usually constructed by or are under the control of local authorities, sums may be paid over to such local authorities as the Minister in charge of the Department in connection with which such roads or works are constructed determines, to such amounts and upon such terms and conditions as that Minister prescribes, to be expended by those authorities upon any of the works or services for which the same are appropriated by this Act; and the Minister of Finance may make all such payments accordingly.

8 Money appropriated for roads, &c. defined

(1)

The moneys appropriated by this Act for the construction or improvement of railways, roads, bridges, buildings, and other public works shall be available for all or any of the following purposes:—

(a)

The construction of railways, and the construction and repair of roads, drains, buildings, bridges, jetties, and wharves:

(b)

The protection of rivers and lakes, and the improvement of the navigation thereof:

(c)

The acquisition of land, and the payment of interest in respect thereof where necessary:

(d)

The payment of salaries, allowances, and travelling-expenses, and the wages of workers:

(e)

The purchase of material and provisions:

(f)

The purchase of furniture and fittings for public buildings, and the payment of wages and purchase of furniture, provisions, and other necessaries for the maintenance of sanatoria and other establishments for which money is appropriated:

(g)

The purchase of tools, plant, provisions, clothing, and other requisites connected with the employment of labour, whether or not the same are to be used for the benefit of or sold or lent to workers employed on public works:

(h)

The payment of fares and freights by land or sea in respect of the carriage of such workers, their families and effects, to or from their work:

(i)

The cost of any material or stores required for the effectual carrying-out of any of the aforesaid works or purposes:

(j)

The payment of compensation and costs payable under the Workers’ Compensation Act, 1922, and amendments, in respect of injuries to workers employed on any of the aforesaid works:

(k)

The payment of damages, compensation, or costs in respect of any injury or damage arising out of the construction or improvement of any such railway, road, bridge, building, or other public work, or out of the taking or acquisition of land for the purposes thereof.

(2)

The cost of tools, plant, provisions, clothing, or other requisites sold or lent to any worker as aforesaid may be deducted from time to time, in one or more sums of money, from the money earned, whether by day labour or by co-operative contract, by the said worker.

9 Payments for which no specific appropriation.

When any of the votes specified in the Schedules hereto contains an item under any title which does not specifically appropriate expenditure for any particular purpose such item shall be deemed to be an appropriation for expenditure on purposes other than those of the other items of the vote.

10 Payments to local authorities for construction of main highways.

Out of the moneys appropriated by this Act for the construction of main highways (including bridges), sums may be paid over to such local authorities as the Main Highways Board determines in such amounts and upon such terms and conditions as the Main Highways Board prescribes, to be expended by those local authorities upon any of the works for which the same are appropriated by this Act, and the Minister of Finance may make all such payments accordingly.

11 Authority to transfer £21,000,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts.

1941, No. 7

There may be transferred from the National Development Loans Account to the respective accounts mentioned in the Fifth Schedule hereto any sums which, together with the sums that have been so transferred during the current financial year under the provisions of section four of the National Development Loans Act, 1941, and the several Imprest Supply Acts passed during this present session, do not exceed in respect of any such account the appropriate amount specified in that Schedule, and do not exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty-one million pounds.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

Schedule of Sums granted to defray the Charges on the Consolidated Fund for the several Services herein particularly mentioned which will come in the Course of Payment during the Year ending 31st March, 1947.

Col. 1.	Col. 2.	Col. 3.
Vote.	CONSOLIDATED FUND.	Appropriation.
	ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT	£
1	Legislative	141,297
2	Prime Minister’s Department	146,729
3	External Affairs	432,700
4	Treasury	193,439
5	Stabilization	13,789,427
6	Customs	250,395
7	Land and Income Tax	560,790
8	Stamp Duties	155,619
9	Audit	109,868
10	Public Service Commissioner’s Office	41,760
11	Internal Affairs	1,151,925
12	Island Territories	454,400
13	Printing and Stationery	431,685
14	Marine	403,147
15	Labour	266,820
16	Native	478,398
17	Valuation	144,806
18	Electoral	148,853
19	Census and Statistics	159,000
20	National Service	2,844
21	National Employment Service	616,477
22	Rehabilitation	434,633
23	Justice and Prisons	469,075
24	Crown Law	12,071
25	Police	1,115,079
26	Navy	1,207,664
27	Army	2,861,650
28	Air	3,832,995
29	Maintenance of Public Works and Services	5,094,175
30	Lands and Survey	820,927
31	Agriculture	1,803,979
32	Scientific and Industrial Research	691,513
33	Mines	136,345
34	Transport	191,552
35	Industries and Commerce	664,116
36	Tourist and Health Resorts	389,110
37	Health	3,379,521
38	Mental Hospitals	1,091,337
39	Education	7,724,677
40	War and other Pensions	4,867,855
41	Social Security	18,000,000
42	National Provident and Friendly Societies	119,053
	Total, Ordinary Revenue Account	74,987,706
	TOTAL, CONSOLIDATED FUND	£74,987,706

SECOND SCHEDULE

Schedule of Sums appropriated to defray the Charges out of the respective Separate Accounts hereinafter mentioned for the respective Services particularly specified which will come in Course of Payment during the Year ending 31st March, 1947.

Col. 1.	Col. 2.	Col. 3.
Vote.	SEPARATE ACCOUNTS.	Appropriation.
	EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND	£
43	Earthquake and War Damage	15,050
	ELECTRIC SUPPLY ACCOUNT
44	Electric Supply	6,000,000
	LAND FOR SETTLEMENTS ACCOUNT
45	Land for Settlements	73,310
46	Small Farms Development	5,858,700
47	Native Land Settlement	1,250,000
	Total, Land for Settlements Account	7,182,010
	MAIN HIGHWAYS ACCOUNT
48	Main Highways	3,500,000
	PUBLIC WORKS ACCOUNT
49	Railway-construction	400,000
50	Housing Construction	7,833,900
51	Public Buildings	800,000
52	Education Buildings	1,250,000
53	Lighthouses and Harbour-works	40,000
54	Roads, &c.	350,000
55	Soil Conservation and Rivers Control	450,000
56	Irrigation, Water-supply, and Drainage	700,000
	Total, Public Works	11,823,900
	SOCIAL SECURITY FUND
57	Administration Expenses and Emergency Benefits	860,877
58	Medical, Hospital, &c., Benefits	5,826,000
	Total, Social Security Fund	6,686,877
	STATE COAL-MINES ACCOUNT
59	State Coal-mines	2,955,030
	STATE FORESTS ACCOUNT
60	State Forest Service	1,455,900
	WORKING RAILWAYS ACCOUNT
61	Working Railways	17,365,291
62	Improvements and Additions to Open Lines	1,172,000
	Total, Working Railways Account	18,537,291
	TOTAL, SEPARATE ACCOUNTS	£58,156,058

THIRD SCHEDULE

Schedule of Sums appropriated to defray the Charges out of the respective Accounts, outside the Public Account, hereinafter mentioned for the respective Services particularly specified which will come in Course of Payment during the Year ending 31st March, 1947.

Col. 1.	Col. 2.	Col. 3.
Vote.	ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT.	Appropriation.
	POST OFFICE ACCOUNT	£
63	Post and Telegraph Working-expenses	7,370,395
64	Telegraph Extension	1,069,600
	Total, Post Office Account	8,439,995
	PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
65	Public Trust Office	529,194
	NATIVE TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
66	Native Trust Office	19,555
	GOVERNMENT INSURANCE ACCOUNT
67	Government Insurance	259,185
	PUBLIC SERVICE SUPERANNUATION FUND ACCOUNT
68	Public Service Superannuation Fund Office	8,800
	STATE FIRE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
69	State Fire Insurance	124,539
	GOVERNMENT ACCIDENT INSURANCE ACCOUNT
70	Government Accident Insurance	71,570
	DAIRY INDUSTRY ACCOUNT
71	Export Marketing	42,060
	MEAT INDUSTRY ACCOUNT
71	Export Marketing	50,800
	SUNDRY PRODUCTS ACCOUNT
71	Export Marketing	14,200
	INTERNAL MARKETING ACCOUNT
72	Internal Marketing	146,025
	BROADCASTING ACCOUNT
73	Broadcasting	507,940
	IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY ACCOUNT
74	Iron and Steel Industry	8,651
	TOTAL	10,222,514

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorized Expenditure Account for the Year 1945–46

(Under Section 58 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926)		£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
CONSOLIDATED FUND
Ordinary Revenue Account
FOR SERVICES NOT PROVIDED FOR
Agriculture Department:—
	Cost of visit to New Zealand of Dr. E. L. Taylor, Chief Parasitologist to British Ministry of Agriculture				86	1	1
Audit Department:—
	Grant to officer in lieu of leave on retirement (C. G. Collins)				400	0	0
External Affairs Department:—
Internal Affairs Department:—
	Cost of visit to New Zealand of Mr. Jordan, New Zealand High Commissioner in London, and Mrs. Jordan				686	3	2
	Cost of travelling and transportation expenses, Fire Brigade Superintendents attending special conference at Blenheim	21	0	8
	Ex gratia payment to Mr. G. F. Yerex in settlement of superannuation contribution claim during his period of war service	100	0	0
	Grant to officer in lieu of leave on retirement (D. F. McEnnis)	3	7	1
	Purchase of motor-vehicles	709	3	4
					833	11	1
Island Territories Department:—
	Cost of official tour of Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands, &c., by Colonel Voelcker, prior to his taking up appointment as Administrator of Western Samoa				96	0	1
Justice and Prisons Department:—
	Legal expenses of Mr. V.R.S. Meredith—Compensation claim, J. G. Crawford; Reeves-Palmer v. Banks and Durward	88	19	1
	Cost of extradition of two escaped prisoners from Australia to New Zealand	132	12	7
					221	11	8
Lands and Survey Department:—
	Clearing Poa aquatica from rivers and waterways in Hauraki Plains Drainage District				570	18	0
Marine Department:—
	Compassionate allowance to the widow of the late O. D. MacFarlane	113	13	4
	Expenses of Commission of Inquiry to investigate position of small harbours and wharves in Golden and Tasman Bays	69	10	2
	Repairs to fishermen’s slipway at Kaikoura	231	16	4
					414	19	10
Public Works Department:—
	Ex gratia payment to Master McKee in compensation for injuries				200	0	0
Scientific and Industrial Research Department:—
	Grant to Imperial Institute of Entomology to meet cost of work on the study of insect parasites in South America for possible use in New Zealand	500	0	0
	Radio meteorological investigation in the Canterbury area	202	4	11
					702	4	11
Social Security Department:—
	Special annuity: George Gordon Hume	44	5	1
	Special annuity: Raymond Lincoln Slyfield	88	16	6
	Compassionate allowance to Donald Lowe on account of injuries received through explosion of shell	95	16	5
					228	18	0
Stamp Duties Department:—
	Repayment of part of the death duty paid on the estate of Michael von Dadelszen, deceased				675	15	4
Transport Department:—
	Cost of inquiry into the operations of the Auckland vehicular ferry				95	2	9
Treasury Department:—
	Grant to officer in lieu of leave on retirement (Miss J. M. French)	30	14	11
	Grant to officer in lieu of leave on retirement (Miss R. M. Hobbs)	2	2	11
	Additional grants to superannuation funds to meet estimated cash deficiencies at 31st March, 1946: Teachers’ Superannuation Fund, £149,200; Railways Superannuation Fund, £5,300	154,500	0	0
	Payment to the Bank of New Zealand, being accrued dividends due to the Crown in terms of clause 27 of the deed of settlement of the Bank of New Zealand in respect of shares registered on the Wellington Register of the Bank on 31st October, 1945, now to be utilized by the bank to make payments equal to accrued dividends to the legal representatives of the shareholders concerned	4,635	7	0
	Compassionate grant to the widow of the late W. C. Webb	169	7	8
	Grants in lieu of refunds of petrol-tax: Lower Hutt City Council, £76 18s. 11d.; Timaru Borough Council, £68 11s. 8d.	145	10	7
					159,483	3	1
								164,694	9	0
FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTES
Vote 1—Legislative					28	15	11
Vote 2—Prime Minister’s Department					4,334	7	10
Vote 8—Audit					785	12	10
Vote 10—Internal Affairs					4,446	12	7
Vote 14—Labour					1,902	6	9
Vote 17—Electoral					2,889	16	10
Vote 22—Justice and Prisons					12,420	16	7
Vote 26—Organization for National Development					484	4	11
Vote 28—Agriculture.					8,316	9	6
Vote 32—Industries and Commerce					38,241	2	10
Vote 34—Health					70,773	5	9
Vote 35—Mental Hospitals					15,287	17	5
Vote 36—Education					111,936	13	11
								271,848	3	8
	TOTAL, CONSOLIDATED FUND							£436,542	12	8
	SEPARATE ACCOUNTS
	Main Highways Account
	FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTE
Vote 55—Main Highways								97,017	11	4
	TOTAL, MAIN HIGHWAYS ACCOUNT							£97,017	11	4
	Public Works Account
	FOR SERVICES NOT PROVIDED FOR
Housing Construction:—
	Value of car damaged in accident, together with amount paid to third party							140	0	0
	FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTES
Vote 40—Railway-construction					97,050	8	5
Vote 41—Housing Construction					119,995	3	2
Vote 46—Soil Conservation and Rivers Control					12,271	9	6
Vote 47—Lands, miscellaneous					2,150	11	11
								231,467	13	0
	TOTAL, PUBLIC WORKS ACCOUNT							£231,607	13	0
	Social Security Fund
	FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTES
Vote 56—Administration Expenses and Emergency Benefits								4,319	12	0
Vote 57—Medical, Hospital, &c., Benefits								192,315	10	4
	TOTAL, SOCIAL SECURITY FUND							£196,635	2	4
	State Coal-mines Account
FOR SERVICES NOT PROVIDED FOR
Grant in lieu of rates—
	Raglan County Council				400	0	0
	Te Akau Rabbit Board				2	0	0
Grant to Buller County Council in lieu of rates on property purchased by the Crown from the Westport-Stockton Coal Co., Ltd.					1,500	0	0
Part cost, visit of State coal-mines officials to Australia in connection with proposed mechanization of State coal-mines					57	0	0
								1,959	0	0
FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTE
Vote 58—State Coal-mines								227,870	19	10
	TOTAL,STATE COAL-MINES ACCOUNT							£229,829	19	10
	ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT
	Post Office Account
FOR SERVICES NOT PROVIDED FOR
Cost of conveying remains of the late R. C. Penman from Christchurch to Otahuhu and part cost of funeral expenses								47	15	0
Grant to Mr. J. G. Young in recognition of services performed at the Telecommunication and other Conferences								250	0	0
	TOTAL, POST OFFICE ACCOUNT							£297	15	0
	Native Trustee’s Account
FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTE
Vote 65—Native Trust Office								134	15	4
	TOTAL, NATIVE TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT							£134	15	4
	Internal Marketing Account
FOR SERVICES NOT PROVIDED FOR
Expenses of Fruit Marketing Council Elections, 1944								184	13	11
	TOTAL, INTERNAL MARKETING ACCOUNT							£184	13	11
	Broadcasting Account
FOR SERVICES NOT PROVIDED FOR
Grant to officer in lieu of leave on retirement (Mrs. R. J. Fisher)								8	18	9
	TOTAL, BROADCASTING ACCOUNT							£8	18	9
	TOTAL UNAUTHORIZED EXPENDITURE (IN TERMS OF SECTIONS 58 AND 98 OF THE PUBLIC REVENUES ACT, 1926)							£1,192,259	2	2
	(Under Section 51 or the Public Revenues Act, 1926)
	SURPLUS CREDITS IN AID applied in Terms of Section 51, Subsection (3), of the Public Revenues Act, 1926
	ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT
Vote 1—Legislative					676	1	1
Vote 3—External Affairs					1,293	12	6
Vote 7—Stamp Duties					247	12	9
Vote 10—Internal Affairs					20,621	2	6
Vote 14—Labour					88	17	1
Vote 17—Electoral					101	2	7
Vote 22—Justices and Prisons					4,639	15	9
Vote 25—Maintenance of Public Works and Services					174,773	9	2
Vote 26—Organization for National Development					170	18	2
Vote 31—Transport					2,437	18	7
Vote 32—Industries and Commerce					24,286	1	4
Vote 33—Tourist and Publicity					11,665	14	4
Vote 34—Health					62,609	14	10
Vote 35—Mental Hospitals					2,633	13	4
								306,245	14	0
	TOTAL, SURPLUS CREDITS IN AID							£306,245	14	0
	GRAND TOTAL							£1,498,504	16	2

Statement showing the Detail of Sums irrecoverable by the Crown or Value of Stores, &c., required to be written off Departmental Accounts

Department and Particulars.		Reason for writing off.	Claims abandoned.
Department and Particulars.		Reason for writing off.	Value of Stores, &c.			Cash.
Armed Services—			£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
	Navy—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				20	16	0
	Sale of s.s. “Wairua”	Loss on realization				24,000	0	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	24,717	6	2
	Various	Nugatory expenditure				77	10	9
Army—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				1,224	15	3
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	577,270	15	1
Air—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				748	12	11
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	240,025	10	7
	Various	Nugatory expenditure				48	4	3
Agriculture—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				0	2	0
	Live-stock	Died or destroyed	4,739	7	2
	Repairs to motor-vehicles	Nugatory expenditure				29	12	2
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	4,868	4	4
	Services vegetable projects’ stores	Loss on realization	39,014	15	3
Broadcasting——
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				0	10	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	58	0	0
Customs—
	Cost of repairing telegraph pole, &c.	Nugatory expenditure				2	12	0
Education—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				1,043	2	10
	Live-stock	Died or destroyed	6	18	3
	Repairs to motor-vehicles	Nugatory expenditure				134	5	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	312	11	9
Electoral—
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	14	4	6
Health—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				34	5	6
	Live-stock	Died	34	13	4
	Repairs to motor-vehicles	Nugatory expenditure				57	2	5
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	1,759	7	6
Industries and Commerce—
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	4	13	5
Internal Affairs—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				470	12	10
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	38	3	5
Island Territories—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				678	6	3
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	769	2	2
Justice and Prisons—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				3	12	6
	Live-stock	Died or destroyed	2,448	19	7
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	141	11	4
Labour—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				159	5	4
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	5	14	8
	Various	Nugatory expenditure				45	8	9
Land and Income Tax—
	Bad debts	Debtors unfinancial, &c.				12,553	11	0
Lands and Survey—
	Advances	Loss on realization				1,792	11	11
	Advances (small farms)	Loss on realization				802	14	1
	Bad debts	Debtors unfinancial, &c.				3,599	8	1
	Live-stock	Died or destroyed	32,439	9	7
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	706	14	8
Legislative—
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	92	13	1
Marine—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				99	13	5
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	2,006	9	10
Marketing—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				237	12	8
Mental Hospitals—
	Live-stock	Died or destroyed	1,495	2	3
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	3,620	5	3
Mines—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				81	0	3
	Live-stock	Died or destroyed	111	0	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	2,409	18	3
	Various	Nugatory expenditure				29	3	7
Ministry of Supply—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				240	15	3
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	4,784	10	6
	Stores damaged	Nugatory expenditure				7	0	11
Munitions—
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	225	14	0
National Provident and Friendly Societies—
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	6	0	0
National Service—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				110	7	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	2,884	10	11
	Various	Nugatory expenditure				16	12	3
Native—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				13,612	15	8
	Live-stock	Died or destroyed	12,834	8	11
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	1,078	3	7
Post and Telegraph—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				186	4	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	3,106	4	1
	Various	Nugatory expenditure				1,127	14	4
Printing and Stationery—
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c. (excesses, £533 9s. 3d.)	532	13	10
Public Trust—
	Securities	Loss on realization				4,333	10	1
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	13	11	11
Public Works—
	Bad debts	Debtors unfinancial, &c.				2,290	0	11
	Live-stock	Died	10	0	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	15,102	0	6
	Various	Nugatory expenditure				211	9	5
	Housing Construction Branch—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				4	15	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	3,346	9	2
Rehabilitation—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				0	13	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	33	15	9
Scientific and Industrial Research—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				2	8	3
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	1	0	11
Social Security—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				2,169	14	6
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	32	12	10
Stamp Duties—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				16	13	5
State Advances Corporation—
	Housing Branch—
	Bad debts	Debtors unfinancial				336	13	10
State Forest Service—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				140	19	0
	Live-stock	Died or destroyed	67	10	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	4,161	16	3
	Various	Nugatory expenditure				19	7	6
Tourist and Health Resorts—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				157	16	6
	Compensation for damage to private property	Nugatory expenditure				6	15	0
	Live-stock	Died	1	10	0
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	258	8	9
Transport—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				1	0	0
	Repairs to motor-vehicles	Nugatory expenditure				218	0	5
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	0	6	0
Treasury—
	Securities	Loss on realization				1,353	12	10
	War Assets Realization Board—Bad debts	Irrecoverable				319	13	1
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	1,037	12	11
	Various	Nugatory expenditure				35	5	6
Working Railways—
	Bad debts	Irrecoverable				8,637	4	5
	Stores	Lost, broken, deficient, &c.	4,106	19	8
			992,737	11	11	83,531	13	10
			£		s.		d.
Claims abandoned			1,076,269		5		9
Customs—
	Customs duty and sales tax		1,035		6		3
Industries and Commerce—
	Arrears, mineral-water rights		12		10		0
Land and Income Tax—
	Misappropriation of income-tax deductions		694		18		6
Stamp Duties—
	Amusement-tax		316		12		2
Tourist and Health Resorts—
	Amounts due to the Hermitage by guests killed in an accident		4		11		0
		TOTAL	£1,078,333		3		8

FIFTH SCHEDULE

Schedule of Sums authorized to be transferred from the National Development Loans Account to the several Accounts herein particularly mentioned during the Year ending 31st March, 1947.

Account.	Amount.
	£
The Electric Supply Account	4,500,000
The Land for Settlements Account	3,000,000
The Main Highways Account	500,000
The Public Works Account	9,992,000
The State Coal-mines Account	650,000
The State Forests Account	750,000
The Working Railways Account	1,000,000
The Post Office Account	600,000
The Iron and Steel Industry Account	8,000
TOTAL	£21,000,000

Appropriation Act 1946