GREAT BRITAIN'S WEALTH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8239, 18 September 1906, Page 3

GREAT BRITAIN'S WEALTH.

The total sum paid by the inhabitants of the Uuited Kingdom into the Exchequer durinq the last, fifteen years reaches tbe euormouß amount of £1,548,183,918. The Exchequer received na revenue in 1891-92 the sum ot £79,125,686. The sj.eed at which tbie country inoreases its wealth may bo gathered from the fact that this year the Exchequer will receive £126,870,474. The expenditure in the same years was £78,058,673 and £123,404,854 respectively. The following table of income will show how the annual payments into the Exchequer are increasing:— 1894-95 .1. ... £82,551,191 1898-99 £94,301,391 1901-2 £127,125,614 1902-3 £135,372,765 There has been a defioit in the Exchequer six times in the last fifteen years, and the largest was in 1900-01, when it amounted to £53,207,580. The cost of the sea and land forces of Britain has almost doubled since 1891, when the amount under the naval and military expenditure was £33,162,789. This'year the figures are £60,302,477. In 1900-01 the naval and military expenditure was £21,767,790, the ,next year it had increased by nearly bine millions, and the following year—the last of the Boer war—it was £110,844,488. The total revenue derived from taxes thiß year is estimated at £119,875,000, an increase of £34,759,000 since 1891.