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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

ON THE 31ST December, 1923.

LIABILITIES.

ASSETS.

Deposits not Available,

1,209,014.25

Subsidiary Coins,...................

Advances,

Postal Agencies,

25,259.76

Building Loans,

Imprest.......

1,097,852.91 157,353.21 997,700.00 3,097.84

Shipping Control Account,..........

2.220,493.91

House Service Account,

22,334.41

Crown Agents' Deposit Account,

9,496,620.09"

Suspense Account,

1,755.00

Investment Account,

Total Liabilities,

Balance,

3.456,522.92

15,971,495.23

Unallocated Stores, (P.W.D.),

Luallocated Stores, (Railway), Coal Account,

Bulunces at Banks,

Crown Agents' Current Account,

366,004.92

247.893,56

74,740.74

6,420,211,23+

542,669.24

2,039.60

Total,..

19,428,018.15

£

89,000 0s.

Od.

£1,009,046 1ts.

1d.

Total......... $ 19,428,018,15

Cash lent at Interest....

Cash on deposit

+ Invested as follows :—

Vaine of Stock.

Hongkong 6% War Loan, 1921-28, ..$120,000.00

4% Funding Loau, 1960-90, Queensland 44% Stock 1920-25, Queensland 4 Stock 1924

Queensland 43% Bond 1920-25

£835,000 Os. Od. .. 18,000 Os. Od. ..£ 23,500 0s. Od. ...............£ 25,000 Os. Od.

Actual Cost, $120,000.00 £662,991 14s. 9jd. £17,697 5s, Od. ✰ 23,381 6s. 3d. £24,391 12s. 6d.

PUBLIC DEBT.

Debts.

Rate of luterest.

When incurred and for what cause.

State Provision for Payment of Interest or Sinking Fund, and refer to Enactments by which it is made.

Amount of Original Debt.

Market Value. $120,000,00

£730,625 Os. Od. (873). £17,640 0s. Od. (98). £23,265 Os. Od. (99). £ 24,500 Os. Od. (9%).

Amount repaid.

Rewarks.

ť

s. d.

200,000 0 0 4 per cen- 1887. Public Works.

11.

Ordinances Nos, 6 of 1886 and 1 of 1893.

£

d. £ s.d.

200,000 0 0 60,000 0.0%

200,000 0 0 31

1893. Public Works.

»

Ordinances Nos. 1 and 2 of 1893.

200,000 0 0

In 1894 the balance of the 1887 loan wHA converted into 34% inscribed stock.

1,799 15 | 31

Do.

1,799 15 1

The

HMOTNE

toral

of

1,143,933

143

1894. Stock created to defray expensos of conversion of the balance of the 1887 loau.

1906. Lonn

to

Ordinances Nos. 1,143,933 1 4

* Chinese Provincial | 1 of 1893 and 11

Govermuent and for of 1905.

Railway Construc-

tion.

Joint

fund:

sinking ten shil- lings per centum on the total no- minal amount of the inscribed stock being appropriato i half-yearly from general revenues and assets. Inter- est appropriated half-yearly from the same source.

1916. Contribu- Ordinauco No. tion to Imperial 12 of 1916.

Government for war

purposes.

$3,000,000

sterling debt outstanding at the close of

1928 £1,485,732.

[168, 5d.

from

Was

The sinking

the.

same date 'n-

mounted

10

£132,592. 5s. 5d.

|Sinking Fund on 31st December 1923 amounted to$1,176,086.49 and £99,441. 3s. Od.

$3,000,000 | 6 »