IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
BUDGET ESTIMATES. (Received 3. 1 1.20 a.m.,' London. April 2. Mr. Lloyd George, in ni-> Budget speech, said that the surplus wjt ■•_! be devoted to strengthening the ex chequer balance. If it were *oii i I unnecessary to spend it Parba r.e it could decide what should be do.i * or it could be devoted to the red’iition of the National Debt. He stimated the revenue at £ls7. Ir9.‘> > and the cxpenditme at £186.8'-‘.j.i» "> There would be no fiesh taxat.on reduction, but the of a Icrease m naval estimates vas not particularly bright. The tianxp.i: strike depleted the last icvenut !v £340.000 and this further str-k" meant a loss for the coming year or £1,200,00).
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 94, 3 April 1912, Page 6
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