BRITISH EXCHEQUER.
YEAR'S RETURNS TO DATE. LONDON, March 2£ The British Treasury's financial year will end at midnight 011 Friday. I'p to last Silt unlay the total ordinarv revenue amounted to £906.108.019. Tins was an increase of nearly £48.000.000 on tlic total a year ago. but was still £38,300.000 short of the Budget estimate. The principal source in which the revenue has fallen short of the estimates is death duties, which, so far. have yielded £76.140.000. com pared with £87.800.000 a year ago, and the estimate of £88,000.000. The total expenditure, lew self-balancing items and sinking funds, is £017.100.022. compared with £820,408.061 a year ago. Ordinary expenditure also looks like being less than the total budgeted for. and provided by a supplementary estimate, which woe £951,725,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 8
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