BRITISH EXCHEQUER.
DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION. _____ British Official Wireless. RUGBY, November 23. The latest weekly Exchequer returns contain a feature of interest in the first recorded receipts from the national defence contribution introduced in the last Budget and the subject of great controversy at the time. This amount is only £2000, but the total estimated yield for the present financial year, which still has four months to run, is more than £2,000,000. The total ordinary revenue amounts to £415,657,903, compared with £394,046,903 at the corresponding date last year. The total expenditure, less self-balancing items, is £537,700,249, compared with £491,524,268 at the corresponding date in The total floating debt outstanding at November 20 was £936,075,000— an increase of £237,945,000 since March 31—compared with £852,690,000 at the corresponding date I last year.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 4
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