QUEENSLAND BUDGET.
A SMALL SURPLUS
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright 1 [United Press Association.] (Received 10.5 a.m.)
Brisbane, August 20
The Budget shows: Revenue £6,378,213, exceeding the estimate by £109,911; expenditure £6,372,097, exceeding the estimate by £109,461. The surplus is £6,116, which would hav< been larger had two amounts not been transferred to the revenue account. The estimated population of Queens land is 636,425, an increase of 14,296 compared with 1912. Owing to the hardness of the money market loan funds have been expended at a considerably lesser rate than in the previous year. Railways showed a net return on capital cost of £3 8s 6d per centum. Land settlement has continued tc expand. The area'selected during the year was 6,964,388 acres.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 96, 27 August 1913, Page 5
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