Extracts from the Financial Statement.

Major Atkinson, after a few _ intro ductory remarks, then went on to give the FINANCIAL RESULT OF THE YEAR, < ' which, owing to the change in the hnan- - cial year, ended this term on the 1 j It will be remembered that I estimated ( that after the payment of all lia^ xllt outstanding at the close of the yea. , < taking credit for the assets of the year, . there would be a deficit of L 131,842. The actual deficit on the transactions en tered upon up to 31st March last, m respect to the period now referred to, has proved to be L 69.418. There remained unpaid,'however, on that date liabilities to the amount of L 70,193, including L 50,000 owing to the Bank of New Zealand, as the balance of the overdraft of the late Provincial Government of Otago, while on the other hand further assets, amount ing 85821, have been realised since the 31st oi March, so that the total deficit, in cluding assets and liabilities, on Jnne 30th last was L 133,790, instead of L 131,824 as estimated. EXPENDITURE OF THE PERIOD ENDED oIST MARCH, 1880. .In the statement I had the honor to make to the committee last session I estimated that the expenditure would amount to L 3,110,262, but this sum was increased to L 3,139,539 by the passing of supplementary estimates, - The actual ex penditure to the 31st March last, including advances in the hands of officers of the Government amounted to L 2,772,276. In accordance with the provisions of the Public Revenues Act, 1878, Amendment Act, 1879, returns of liabilities outstand ing on 31st March, certified to by several Under-Secretaries, have been laid before Parliament; f ; The liabilities amount to f L 342,966, from which, however, I deduct the L 70,193 already referred to as belong ing to the period ending 30th June, 1879, leaving L 272,773 in respect of the period now under review. Adding this sum to actual expenditure on 31st March, amount ing, as I said, to 1/2,772,276 we get a total expenditure of 1/3,045,049 as against 1/3,139,539, the estimated amount, there being thus an apparent saving of 1/93,490 a-year. . . • .1 now come to the estimates REVENUE OF THE COLONY FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31ST, 1880. The total revenue received during this period amounted to L 2,133,759 to .which add L 50,000 receivable on the Ist April from the Land Tax, which the Committee will remember was includedin the estimate, making together, L 2,183,759, the esti mated amount being L 2.545,200. The revenue, therefore, fell short of that anticipated by L 261,441. The revenue from the Customs did not reach the esti mated .amount by L 47,335. This, although chiefly caused by the general depression throughout the colony, has been partly caused, I believe, by the awak ing of oui’ population to the necessity of cultivating more thrifty habits and prac tising greater self denial. ■ The stamp duties produced L 32,921 less than the estimate. The . gross .revenue from the stamp duties during the nine months ended _ 31st March, amounted to L 111,057, and the refunds to L 18,979, an altogether unusual amount, but an estate which paid L18,4Q5: duty, in the year 1878-79, was declared by the Supreme Court to be not chargeable and that sura, therefore, had to be refunded in February last, and is included in the refunds above mentioned. The stamp revenue, but for this unex pected occurrence, would have realised L 14,516 less than the estimate, instead of L 32,921. The receipts from railways fell short of the estimate byL113,072, but the loss is counterbalanced to some extent by the not inconsiderable saving of L 43,242 effected in the expenditure by my bon. friend the Minister for Public Works. The land revenue, too, I regret to say, produced only L 155,108 instead of L 246,700. The postal revenue, however, exceeded the estimate by L 12,961, but of this sum L 6,982 was the profit of the Post Office Savings Bank account which has heretofore been treated as incidental revenue. FINANCIAL RESULTS OF THE PERIOD ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1880. After stating that Government proposed to deal with L 200,000 deficiency bills issued by Parliament under authority of the Public Revenue Act, 1878, in the way the LBOO,OOO of similar bills issued last session had been dealt with —namely, adding them to the permanent debt, the Treasurer said —In adding this amount to the permanent debt, Parliament will, only be carrying out the policy adopted last session for the purpose of enabling the colony to take a new departure financially with the beginning of the current year, by providing for the whole of the floating debt up to that date. I have sum marised; the result at which I have arrived: —The deficit during 1878-79 lias been shown to be L 133,790, the expenditure for. the nine months ended 31st March last L 2,772,276 and the liabilities on the same .date L 271,774, making a total of L 3,170,840. The receipts for the period ended 31st March were L 2,133,758, land tax due Ist April L 50,000, assets L 5,000, making a total of L 2,188,758. Taking therefore the total revenue from the total expenditure we arrive at a deficit of L990,08l for the period ended 31st March, 1880, to meet which, as I have already. stated, Treasury and deficiency bills have been issued to the amount of L 1,000,000, leaving a credit balance of L 9,918 to be carried forward to the next financial period. On the 30th June. 1879, the ' gross public debt of the colony amounted to L 23,222,311, on the 31st March, 1880, it wa5L27,422,611; ordeduct .ing the accrued sinking fund, L 1,805,498, t le nett public debt was L 25,617,113. This amount is exclusive of the treasury and deficiency bills for L 992,000, held by the public works fund, and the LBOO,OOO unsold debentures of the loan of 1870 guaranteed by the Imperial Government. Since the 30th June, 1879, the loan of five millions authorised last year has been raised. On the Ist of March last Treasury bills amounting to L 442,000, and forming part of the public debt on the 30th June, 1879, matured, and were temporarily re deemed out of the public works fund, pro vision having been made under the Treasury Bills Act, 1870, for renewing thein to th. 6 31st of December, 1882, and exchanging them at that date for deben tures, with a currency of three years. During the nine months ended 31st March last, additional Treasury and deficiency bills to the amount of LI,OOO,000 have been issued. Bills for L 550,000 have also been taken up temporarily by the public works fund, so that the actual ad

ditional to the public debt by the new loan and these bills amounts at present to L 5,000,000. On the other hand guaran teed debentures amounting to LBOO,OOO have been redeemed, and the debentures of the North Otago District Public Works Loan for L 7700 have been paid off, mak ing together L 807,700, which sum beiug deducted from L 5,000,000 leaves a net in crease to the public debt of L 4,200,300. When the Imperial guaranteed debentures for LBOO,OOO are sold and the whole of the Treasury and deficiency bills now held by the public works fund, and representing advances to the Consolidated Fund to the extent of L 992,000 are issued to the pub lic, the gross debt will amount to L 29,214,611, or deducting the accumu lated sinking fund of L 1,805,498, the debt will be L 27,409,113, subject to an actual charge of about L 1,535,000. In this statement of the public debt, tiie last loan of L 5,000,000 is treated as unin scribed. Should the whole of the deben tures be converted on the terms offered, the public debt will be increased by L 1,000,000, but the interest will be re duced by 1/10,000 per annum. Parlia ment will be asked during the present session to make provisions for extending .to the 31st of December, 1882, the cur rency of certain Treasury bills amounting to L 390,000, partly falling due within the current year, and to grant authority for exchanging them at date for debentures, with a currency of three years, as in the case of bills for L 442,000 provided for by the Treasury Bills Act, 1879. Similar provision, as I have already said, will also be required with resp’ect to the deficiency bills for L 200,000, issued under the Public Re-

venue Act, 1878, forming part of the bills, amounting to L 1,000,000, issued during the past financial period. After explain ing the difficulty the Loan Agents had encountered in raising a loan last year, and giving the reason why it had been offered at so low a figure, the Treasurer said that the. J/oan Agents’ accounts were not yet to hand, and he was unable to give the precise net price realised for the loan, hut after all allowances, the price would be about. 95-| for 5 per cent, deben tures, and 79| for” those converted into 4 per cents. At the close of the year 1878-79 the balance to the credit of the Public Works fund amounted to L 506,205, of which L 298,543 represented advances in the hands of the Government, the cash balance- in the public account being L 207,662. During the nine months from 30th June,.1879, to 31st March last we re ceived on account of the proceeds of the five million loan, L 4,249,000, and certain special receipts and recoveries amounting to L 22,849, making, with the balance at the beginning of the period, a total of L 4,778,054. On the 31st of March the cash balance in the public account, after providing for outstanding orders on the bank, was, in the colony and in London together, L 862,410, and the advances in the hands of officers of the Government amounted to L 315,763, making together L 1,178,173. We had thus issued during the nine months ended 31st March last, L 3,599,881. In the course of further remarks the Trea surer said that there was a balance of L 1,920,410 available for public works and other requirements until the Treasury deficiency bills already referred to could he sold. Having stated the amount of ways and means available, I shall now in form the committee what are the liabilities, to meet which funds must be set aside be fore the question of entering upon new works can be entertained. According to the returns certified to by the Under secretaries of the several departments, the liabilities of the Public Works Fund on 31st March last amounted to L 2,455,313, made up as follows :—lmmi gration, LIO,OOO ; Public Works depart ment, L 644 ; railways, L 910,506 ; surveys of new lines, L 1,500 ; roads, L 108,696 ; land purchases, L 1,061,486 ; water works on gold fields, L 11,704 ; telegraph ex tension, L 1,034; public buildings, L 205,314 ; lighthouses, Ll2O ; miscel laneous public works, L 73,309. To this this sum I add further liabilities incurred by the Public Works department since 31st March, LIIO,OOO, and a contribution for the current year towards the cost of the Defence Force on the same scale as for the past nine months, L 140,000. These sums amount to L 2.705,313,.705,313, from which P deduct advances in the hands of officers Of the Government on 31st March, L 315,763, leaving L 2,389,550 as the sum required to be set aside out of ways and means at the credit of the fund on the 31st March, amounting as I have informed the Committee to L 3,262,410. Hon. mem bers will however bear in mind that of this sum of L 3,262,410, L 1,343,000 is represented by Treasury and deficiency hills issued in aid of the Consolidated Fund. It will be seen that the large amount of liabilities to which I have re ferred will absorb the whole of the cash at the credit of the public works fund, and will necessitate the sale of L 469,000 of Treasury and deficiency bills hypothecated to that fund. The means available for new works and services will therefore be represented by L 873,000 in Treasury and deficiency bills, being the balance of L 1,342,000 now.held by the Public Works account. So mucli then, sir, for the his tory of the past. ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE OF THE CONSOLI DATED FUND, 1880-81. Honorable members will kindly bear in mind that the land fund will be treated separately, and that it is therefore excluded from the estimates of expendi ture and revenue which I am now about to submit. Although treated separately, the land fund l’emains to all intents and purposes a part of the consolidated re venue, for the purpose of security to the New Zealand bondholders. The Estimates show a very large reduction of the charges upon the consolidated fund, as compared with last year, amounting in the gross to L 541,000 ; and hut for the increase in ex penditure over last year of L 109,000 for interest, L2§,000 for education, over which, of course, the Government had no control, the reduction would have been L 673,000. And if -we deduct from this the sum of L 150,000 transferred as charges against the land sales, there would still have remained the very substantial reduction of L 523,000. But even after making provision for this increased ex penditure of L 132,000 on interest and education, and allowing for the loss to the revenue of the proceeds of land sales L 200,000, there will be a net saving of expenditure from the consolidated fund of L 341,000, and this without impairing the usefulness of the local bodies, the effi ciency of the public service, or shifting burdens which should be borne upon re venue to loan or other funds. The total

proposed votes for the year, exclusive of liabilities, are L 3,473,709. But of this we cannot spend and bring into the accounts within the year more than L 3,248,709. This advantage will not recur, but fortu nately comes to our aid now, thus giving the revenue time to recover its normal condition, as we have every reason to hope it will by next year. It will perhaps astonish hon. members to hear that we are now paying over L1.,000,000 a-year salaries, pay, and wages, and L 18.070 for pensions. This includes our railway employes and our ordinary complement of constabulary and police. Of this sum L 643,000 is for salaries, pay, and wages of L2OO a-year and under. The Government have had no time to grapple with this enormous ex penditure during the short recess just terminated, but they have made reduc tions wherever it was.possible to do so without detrimentally affecting the machi nery of government. We have given the subject as careful consideration as the time at our disposal would permit, but, as I have often before pointed out, effective and permanent reductions, as distin guished from spasmodic efforts at economy, must be the work of time. But, although time was necessary to deal with this sub ject comprehensively, and we had so little time at our disposal, we felt this could be no excuse for not at once making a begin ning. Besides several minor reductions, my hon. friend the Minister for Public Works has reduced the expenditure of his department by L 36,000 without impairing in any way its efficiency. The Native Minister lias succeeded in reducing the expenses of his department from L 46,944, which was last year’s estimate, to L 24,262 this year, or after allowing transfers to other departments, to nearly 50 per cent. In the land purchase department, which had grow r n into a serious excrescence on the Native office, he has reduced the salaries from LIO,OOO to L 6,000 a year,, or about 40 per cent., and in both cases I venture to assert the service is being better performed than formerly. The Govei’nment have had under consider ation the questions of the salaries of Ministers. Looking to the financial position of the colony and the necessity for reduction, which must be made in some form, w r e propose that 20 per cent, shall be deducted from their salaries for the current year, beginning on the Ist July next. So far, sir, a reduction is simple enough. Gross and cruel injustice may be easily done to many deserving officers if large reductions are indiscriminately insisted upon, and the efficiency of the public service may be seriously impaired. We have among our civil servants not only a large number of willing and efficient officers, but we have men who would be a credit to any service. And while some of our departments urgently require reform or remodelling, or even abolishing by con solidation with others, some I am sure could hardly be touched without being in jured ; and again while some officers are no doubt overpaid, others, considering the value of their services and the difficulty of filling their places, deserve more than they get. We can therefore lay down no inflexible rule for retrenchment. But, sir, an effort must be made in the interest of economy at once. We shall therefore propose to the House, notwithstanding the fact that the Estimates have been ap parently kept within the narrowest limits, that 5 per cent, or L 50,000, be struck off the votes for salaries, pay, and wages, and we shall then proceed in the manner I have indicated to make this saving. And if with the aid of the departments we are unable to make the necessary reductions to cover this amount, we shall issue a scale of per centages shoeing the sum to be deducted for every employee of the Government, which together will make up tMfe L 50,000. If, then, the Committee should agree to tliis reduction, the total expenditure within the year I estimate will, be L 3,198,709, for which provision has to be made. ESTIMATED REVENUE OF THE CONSOLI DATEB FUND, 1880-81. The .Treasurer then gave his estimate of the probable revenue for the ensuing financial year, and put . it down at L 3,190,000. He could not take as hope ...ful a view of the Customs receipts as he had wished, and the financial depression had rendered no more than a not very ' reliable approximate estimate possible. From this source perhaps L 1,250,000 might be obtained. There had been an ominous decrease in the revenue in 1879, and a more than proportionate decrease in the first quarter of 1880, and this notwith standing the increase of duties. Imports, too, had fallen off during that quarter, and not from any diminution of imports of material for Government, such as railway plant, etc. There had been an actual falling off from tobacco, from spirits, and from drapery. A surplus of L 41,052 was expected of railway revenue over expen diture, and a slight increase of freight charges was meditated. The estimated expenditure for the year was L 3,198,709, and the estimated revenue L 3,190,000, leaving a balance unprovided for of L 8,709. In regard to this the Treasurer said : I would again call the attention, of the Committee to the fact that if we made up our accounts as we have done heretofore there would be a still further amount to make good of L 225,000. But as I have said before, this will not become payable within the year, aiid therefore I do not propose to make provision for it. I hope lion, members will understand that, • although this is in no sense putting off a payment which could be made during the i year, yet that in future years the post poned liabilities at the end will be counter balanced by the outstanding liabilities at the beginning. In other woi'ds, through beginning this year free we have to pay less during the year than in any succeeding year by the amount of liabilities which will necessarily he outstanding at the end of this year. THE . LAND FUND. I must, sir, here say a few words about the land fund, the receipts of which, from all sources, are estimated at L 335,000. Of this L 200,000 is for land I sales, and L 135,000 for pastoral rents. 'fThe pastoral rents, being revenue, have been included in the consolidated fund, but the L 200.000 estimated to be received from the land sales has not been so in cluded, but in accordance with our pro posal of last session, repeated this evening, it has been set apart to be separately dealt with. The charges, as hon. members will see upon reference to the Estimates, against this, amount to L 150,223, leaving a balance of L 49,777, which, if our scheme of local finance should meet with the approval of the House, will be handed over to the Local Public Works Board. We shall further propose that in every

year when the proceeds of land sales is more than enough to pay charges and administration and the L 150,000, to the Board of Local Public Works, and the balance shall be paid into the Public Woi’ks fund.

THE ASHBURTON HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE n, 4880.

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