PROVINCIAL FINANCES.
To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cboss. Sic, — Our Provincial Council will Bhorfcly meet. The Provincial Executive will soon have to lay before the Council their financial statement, and I do trust, for the sake of the province and every settler in it, that there will be no glossing over, no intricate or entangled accounts, which only serve to confuse rather than enlighten — this surplus from last year which nob ody ever saw, or the balance from such a loan which is merely a myth. Let us have, at all events, in some balance-sheet the total provincial expenditure for the year as so much, the total revenue as so much; and then, however bad our case may be— however rotten our system has been — there will be some chance of improvement. There can or surely need be no such wonderful mystery in showing up, to those who are entitled to know it, what our annual provincial expenditure is, and how far we are able to provide for it. From the moment we have fully bottomed the depth of our difficulties, and looked them fairly and honestly in the face, from that moment we may hope for improvement, but not before. — Yours, &c, J. Cbispe.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3219, 9 November 1867, Page 4
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