HUGE SUM VOTED
MORE MONEY FOR WAR London, March 10. The House of Commons agreed to a supplementary vote of nearly £250,000.000 to cover the rest of the financial year, and an extra £1,000,000 to tide the country over to the middle of June. Explaining the reasons for the vote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, said that in the last six weeks they had been spending £12,500,000 a day. The appropriation provided for £88,500,000 a week, of which £68,000,000 was for the fighting services. The daily expenditure was two and a-half times what it was two years ago, apart from Lend-Lease aid and would probably rise in the next few weeks.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 61, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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