Reimbursement in aid
It is satisfactory to find a steady increase in fees from scholars at Central School.
Other Miscellaneous receipts show a decrease of $10,000.
The chief item in last year's estimate was Profit on subsidiary coins.
The Premia on land sales, rightly kept separate from the ordinary revenue, are estimated at $450 as against $25,000 for 1886.
Expenditure - Ordinary
Actual Expenditure 1885 $1,146,103 Estimated 1886 $1,152,382 Revised estimate 1886 $1,193,472 Estimate 1887 $1,245,434The difference is fully explained in these papers - the main item is $55,000 interest on loan.
There is an increase of nearly $1,800 on Estimate.
Salaries, contingencies, and services exclusive of establishments but subsidiary to them:
Mr. Marsh gives an account of this increase in his despatch: $1,584 out of the amount represents only a nominal increase, a transfer from the item "Public Works" to "establishments". $2,920 represents small increases to Salaries which have been put on the estimate, and which include some "small sums, which this office has practically already agreed to, e.g. an increase to the Salary of Mr. Ford - Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens of $360, nominally equal to £75. [See 9990.86 and 14313.86.] and some small increases to the subordinate Staff of the Post Office.
What was said on last year's estimates [2167.85] applies to this year's. They do not however include the...