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COST OF THE WAR

BRITAIN’S DAILY BILL - ”RUGBY, May 16. The war is costing the British taxpayer fourteen and three-quarter -million pounds daily at the present moment, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir J. Andei-son) asking the Commons to approve a supplementary vote of credit ol' a thousand million'pounds for war expenditure. Sir J.'Anderson said that although .the thousand millions voted on January 25, for the current year was likely" to cover requirements to the early .part of next month, it was never possible to say on what precise date the ,money voted for war purposes would be exhausted. The vote he was asking for should continue the war expenditure until August, before which date he would have to ask lor a further vote. The average rate of expenditure on the war over the whole of the past financial year was twelve and a-half millions a day.

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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1944, Page 5

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COST OF THE WAR Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1944, Page 5

COST OF THE WAR Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1944, Page 5