THE INDIAN BUDGET
Sir Guy Fleetwood Wikon, member in chargo of the .Financial Department, in presenting the Financial Statement of the Government of India in tho Legislative Council at Calcutta, said that the famine, high prices, and bad trade were respouEiblo ior the deficit. Compensation for dear food to low-paid Government servants had cost 90 lakhs of rupees, the Mohmand affair 19 lakhs, the Romer conimittoo decision 11, and increased pay to tho Indian Army 11 The estimates had been framed with the closest regard to economy, and tho expenditure had been curtailed, while there Jia'l been no new taxation. It was hoped that the wonderful vitality of the Indian revenues would assert, itself and prove that tho estimates erred on the side of caution.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 13
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