N.S. WALES FINANCES.
Prosa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
SYDNEY, September 24. Tho State Budget was deliverer to-night by Treasurer Waddell. It shows the revenue for the .past financial year to have been £11,377,000, and the expenditure £11,374,000. The estimated revenue for the current financial year is £11,236,000, inclusive of £2,475,000, expected to be returned by tho Commonwealth. The expenditure is estimated at £11,147,000. The total Public Debt amounted to £75,991,000, with assets valued at £86,000,000. During the past year the drought caused a considerable increase ir expenditure and a decrease of revenue, whi' the edict of the drought and injury to tbi harvest prejudicially reflect on the accoun* of next year. Old age pensions represente a" expendi ure of £*67.000, and next yea; they would require £581,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 11692, 25 September 1902, Page 6
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125N.S. WALES FINANCES. Evening Star, Issue 11692, 25 September 1902, Page 6
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