THE Kaipara Advertiser AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21, 1914 THE REVENUE.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 January 1914, Page 2

THE Kaipara Advertiser AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21, 1914 THE REVENUE.

The Finance Minister has .made the reassuring announcement that the revenue for the first three quarters of the financial year exceeds the estimate by £200,000. That means that the fourth quarter will bring the excess up to a considerably higher figure. That, is the usual habit of revenue, for the ships which bring the trade arrive in larger numbers in the midsummer months. This is especially satisfactory for two reasons. One is that we have had a heavy strike : the other that the railway revenues are not so much improved as was expected. On the whole then the surplus of the year will be sound and large. ' * Reform '' has not mended the finances particularly,, even the best friends of that party must ad-mit—-in fact the results are much the sgme as ever they were 'under the rule, of their opponents. £>n the other hand the expectation that they would muddle the .finances hopelessly tfas been completely falsified. This is satisfactory to all patriots. No other critics count.