CALLING A HALT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 19

CALLING A HALT.

EFFORTS TO SAVE MONEY. SOUTH AFRICAN ESTIMATES. (From Our Own correspondent.) CAPETOWN, April 5. The Union Government's estimates of expenditure for the year which begins in April cull a 'halt to the great increase in expenditure in recent years. They show, indeed, the slight saving ot £72.1100 on the expenditure for last year. The estimates amount to ;C42,s2(UMiO. There id a decrease in the agriculture votes of £940.000. Of this, £300,000 is saved because the Government will not have to repeat its contribution for utabHisinjr *h< , l' riee °* bread. Another itiMii -which does not recur is the ij;;!)0,000 iu subsidising the export of niiiize. the next biggest saving is on the commerce and industries vote, accounted for by the termination of the Italian -hipping .-übsidy of £187,000. There is, an increase on the public debt vote of £1.->O.OOO. Old age pensions will cwt .C2.i0.000 more. The salaries arid wages bill of the (iovenunent is :C 1 |:!.i>oo more this year than last. Tile national road fund will benefit by ! 4; k>o.ooo more than Inst year's estimates of .t 1.7(10,01)0. as the result of an increased contribution from the Customs duty on petrol.