YEAR'S FINANCE
A BIG SURPLUS
ABOUT £2,500,000.
Public accounts for the last quarter of the year ended 31st March, 1920, have been prepared, and will be published very shortly. With the figures for the other quarters already published,' the public will be enabled to judge the financial state of the Dominion. The exMinister of Finance (Sir James Allen), in presenting. his Budget, estimated a surplus of £478,108. Revenue was estimated at £22.919,165, and expenditure ,at £22,441.057. Figures for the nine months indicate that the revenue lias ! quite some up to expectations, and that expenditure has been on the low side in some directions. It is believed that the final figures will disclose a surplus very much lai-jre:.' than that estimated, in the ' neighbourhood of two and a-half millions.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 125, 27 May 1920, Page 8
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128YEAR'S FINANCE Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 125, 27 May 1920, Page 8
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