PUBLIC FINANCES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, 11 April 1908, Page 5

PUBLIC FINANCES.

REVENUE APPROACHES £9,000,000

[press association.) NASEBY, April 10.

The Ministerial party travelled from Alexandra to Naseby to-day. The Prime Minister en route visited St. Bathans, and received a deputation on the matter of 'water conservation for mining. The party was entertained at a social in the evening. The Prime Minister announced that though all the revenue figures were not yet available he would say that the ordinary revenue would be nearer nine millions sterling than it had ever been before. The Prime Minister will address a public meeting at Kaitangata on Saturday night.