QUEENSLAND BUDGET
A PROSPEROUS YEAB. (Received Last Night, 10 o'clock.) BRISBANE, September 20. The 'Treasurer has delivered his Budget. The revenue for tho year was £o,988.347, which constitutes a record, being £215,750 above the estimates. The expenditure was £5,965,692. Tihe estimated revenue for the current vear amounts to £6,268,302, and the expenditure to £6,202,633. The population last year increased by 22,998. including "13.699 immigrants, and tho amount spent on immigration was £161.655. The area of land settled was 6,730,101 acres, which is a record. It is estimated that 575 miles of new railways will bo opened this year. A policy of opening up the country will be vigorously pushed ahead.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10715, 21 September 1912, Page 5
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110QUEENSLAND BUDGET Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10715, 21 September 1912, Page 5
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