SURPLUS HOPED FOR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 77, 13 March 1934, Page 7

SURPLUS HOPED FOR

British Budget Surmises PROBLEM FOR CHANCELLOR I British Official Wireless Service. RUGBY, March 10. The prospect of a substantial sur- : plus being realised at the end of the financial year has given rise to ■ much conjecture regarding the proi posals in the Budget for next year. Restoration of the cuts in the unj employment benefit and the salaries I of civil servants and reduction of the taxation imposed to meet the 1931 crisis are the principal objects to which it is suggested the Bt Hon, Neville Chamberlain should devote attention. In a speech at Birmingham Mr Chamberlain referred to the subject, remarking that any prudent occupant of his office must give careful consideration to the various objects which might I present themselves for the distribution of some part of such hypothetical sur plus in the way best fitted to advance the interests of the country with due regard to conflicting claims and to the relief of the various classes of the community. The problem was a weighty and complicated one into which many considerations, some of which were not yet even known to him, entered, and he had not up to tho present come to any conclusions.