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£400; subscription?, £168 ]0s.; from Marine Board, 

 £20 ; sale of Plants &:c. at Gardens, £88 6s. 8d. ; this, 

 with £30 12s. in the hands of the Superintendent of the 

 Gardens for the payment of wages and arrears of subscrip- 

 tions, £50, will give a total of £957 85. 8c?. The 

 expenditure and liabilities as per balance-sheet amounted 

 to £1024 85. 10c?., leaving a balance to debit of 

 £67 Os. 2d. 



Large and unusual as the outlay for printing was last 

 year, it has, owing to the great value and interest ot 

 Papers read at the meetings, been exceeded by nearly £30 

 this year. The result has been an increase on our debt to 

 this amount. As the printing account, however, is not 

 likely to be again so large, it is expected that a great 

 portion of the debt will disappear during the ensuing 

 year. 



Gardens. 



The gates which were ordered from England last year 

 are now being erected ; and when this work is complete, 

 and the general approach to the gardens properly laid out, 

 the present mean and discreditable entrance, which has 

 long been an eye-sore, will cease to exist. To all who are 

 interested in the beauty and well-doing of the Gardens, it 

 must be a matter of congratulation that the grant in aid 

 has been increased by the annual addition of £200. By 

 means of this timely assistance the workmen can now 

 receive fairer wages, and the deserts of the zealous and 

 most efficient Superintendent will be more adequately 

 recognised. 



The principal new work executed consists in the exten- 

 sion of the sea-wall, completion of reclaimed flat at lower 

 part of Gardens, trenching, and forming paths on new 

 ground intended for an arboretum. Efforts will be made 

 to complete this work forthwith in order that more 

 attention may be given to many general works of im- 

 portance which have hitherto, from want of means, been 

 neglected. 



A quantity of peat soil has been received from Port 

 Arthur for the purpose of forming a Rhododendron bed, in 



