VI.—Expenditure.

I have been unable to analyse the expenditure, not having before me the means of doing so properly. The public accounts are extremely complicated, as between the colonial and provincial Governments, as well as the special funds, trust funds, and land fund—including transfers, advances, and repayments—so that without fuller details than I possess, it is impossible to distinguish, with any approach to accuracy, which items ought to be charged to capital or which to income. But as my object is more especially to show the progress of the colony during the last ten years, it will, at all events in part, be attained by exhibiting the charges on the consolidated fund for each year, distinguishing ordinary charges, or those which represent the expense of carrying on the Government, from payments for interest, sinking fund, expenses of loans, &c.:—

Charges on Consolidated Fund.

[000's omitted.]