WAR EXPENDITURE
AUSTRALIA’S HUGE BILL COMMITMENTS £153,000,000 (Reed. June 1, 9 a.m.) CANBERRA, May 31. The House of Representatives passed bills providing for expenditure for war and defence purposes of £77,740,000, of which £68,740,000 will be borrowed and the remaining £9,000,000 appropriated from the revenue. The Treasurer, Mr. P. C. Spender, said the bills covered commitments up to December 31, but he could give no guarantee that further appropriations would not be necessary before that date. Mr. Spender said that with these bills the total authorisations by Parliament for the war and special defence expenditure amounted to £153,000,000. The Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, stated in the House of Representatives that the Government had made ipquiries of the British Government to ascertain the possibilities of American ships being used to bring refugee children to Australia from the war-stricken European countries.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20262, 1 June 1940, Page 7
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