PARLIAIENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3706, 30 August 1906, Page 3

PARLIAIENT.

Points of The BudgetINTENTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT. [N.Z. Times.] Estimated revenue for the current year, ,£7,867,000 ; estimate of expenditure, ,£7,575.97 2 - Including the balance at the beginning of the year and makingprovision for payment of / £7s°i ooo to the Public Works fund the balance to credit next March is expected to be ,£329,823. There is to be a million loan in aid of public works. It will be raised locally. The authorities for borrowingfour millions under the Land for Settlements Act are almost exhausted, and will have to be extended to five millions. ;£ Assets 326,230,387 Inabilities ... 71.215,066 Surplus ,£ 2 55> Ol s>3 21 Last year the estimated permanent charges were exceeded by | ,£IB,OOO ; under annual apprnpna-; tions a saving of /, 180,000 was effected ; the revenue shuns a net 1 increase over the estimate ot j ,£181,759- . , 1 During the last year t.ie nei public debt of the colony increased

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