BRITISH FINANCE
EXPENDITURE INCREASING. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 6. Exchequer returns show that total ordinary revenue amounts to £265,880,733, compared with £268.020,387 for the corresponding date of 1937. Income tax, surtax and stamps all yielded more to date than a year ago, but, at £331,000,000, estate duties are over £7,000,000 less. Receipts from Customs and excise are slightly less than a year ago. Total expenditure, less self-balancing items, is £407,500,823, compared with £354,800,730 for the corresponding date of 1937. The net increase in the floating debt outstanding since the beginning of the financial year is £69,225,000. TRUCK BLOWN UP. TWO BRITISH SOLDIERS KILLED. JERUSALEM, September 7. Two British soldiers were killed and four seriously injured in a land-mine explosion under a military truck near the Syrian frontier today. The Manchester Regiment engaged large forces of Arabs north of Acre, bombing planes participating.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1938, Page 7
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