JAPAN.
BUDGET ESTIMATES
EY CABLE—f-EERS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT Received Nov. 19, .10.25 a.m. TOKIO, Xov. 18. Budget estimates for 1924 show a decrease in revenue of 129,000,000 yen and expenditure of 104,000,000 yen. The dilference is to be, made uo* by carrying forward 2,500,000 yen "from this year's estimates. Every department is reduced except education, which has increased 3,000,000 yen owing to the school rebuilding programme. The greatest reduction, amounting to 40,000,000, is effected in the Navy Estimates, which include 88.000,000 yen for auxiliary vessels 13,000,000 yen for land and' water defences, and 2,000,000 for the reconstruction of ships. Military Estimates total 193,000,000 which is a saving of 10,000,000 yen on pre-earthquake figures by the curtailment of the defence programme on general administrative expense. The foregoing does not include the restoration expenditure, which at present has not been determined.—Reuter.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 19 November 1923, Page 7
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138JAPAN. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 19 November 1923, Page 7
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