from subheads under the control of the Financial Secretary and is hence not included in the Departmental total of $495,613,000 shown in paragraph 2.10.
Revenue
2.17. Revenue collected by the Department totalled $147,941,000 compared with $124,523,000 in the previous year. The following table shows the main items and indicates the percentage variations compared with 1967-68:
1967-68 1968-69 PercentageIncrease Decrease Crown Lands Sales $30,592,000 $35,401,000 15.72% Crown Lands Fees $6,217,000 $5,148,000 17.19% Water Account *** $66,544,000
$75,421,000 13.34% Quarry Products $3,387,000 $2,947,000 12.99% Building Ordinance (Balcony fees and Building Contractor's registration fees, etc.) $666,000 $1,236,000 85.59% Other Receipts $17,117,000(1) $27,788,000(2) 62.34% $124,523,000 $147,941,000
Note: (1) Includes $3,792,000 Reimbursements: "Works executed on private accounts'. (2) Includes $3,261,000 Reimbursements: 'Works executed on private accounts".
Deposit accounts--Works Executed on Private Account etc.
2.18. Private developers requiring roads and drainage works to be carried out by the Department paid $2,450,097 on deposit during the year 1968-69. Completed works totalled $3,261,344, which was transferred to revenue, and the balance of all such deposit accounts at the year end was $2,201,568. This is $811,247 less than the balance at the end of 1967-68 which reflects the general slowing down in private development work.
Contractors' difficulties
2.19. The banking crisis in 1965 followed by civil disturbances in 1966 and 1967 had a marked effect on a number of Public Works contractors in 1967-68 and the repercussions continued to be felt in 1968-69. One major contractor was in serious financial difficulties towards the end of the year and seven contracts held by this contractor and an associated concern were re-entered or determined after all attempts to keep work continuing on these contracts had failed. Some