THE ROYAL FAMILY
FINANCIAL PROVISION COMMITTEE’S PROPOSALS (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, April 28. (Received April 29, at 5.5 p.m.) An annual saving of £155,900 for the time being will result from the proposals of - a select committee appointed to consider financial provision for the Crown in the Civil List and the report of which will come before the House of Commons on Monday. The total of the list is £410,000 annually, compared with £470,000 proposed at the beginning of the last reign, but the whole of the sum of his Majesty’s privy purse of £IIO,OOO will remain undrawn so long as the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall do not fall below £102,000. Queen Mary will receive an annuity of £70,000. Provision has been made for the. Duke of York as Heir Presumptive in view of his heavier duties, as well as for the contingency of the King’s marriage.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22868, 30 April 1936, Page 9
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