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Departmental Economy ALLOCATION METHOD “This year a departure was made from the usual procedure in dealing with the Estimates,” said Mr. Forbes, “and, after a careful examination of the various votes, only such amount as was considered would be just sufficient to enable them to carry out their proper normal functions efficiently, while exercising continuous rigid economy in detail, was allocated
to each department. “In this connection I may say that it is proposed to make this system of allocating amounts to the several votes a permanent feature of the budgetary system. The reductions made mean, of course, that having regard to the degree of hardship likely’to result to outside organisations concerned, various subsidies and other less essential and extraneous items have had to be eliminated or considerably reduced. The change has been made with a view to the adoption of the more businesslike principle of cutting the national coat according to the cloth available.”
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 256, 25 July 1930, Page 12
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