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1933.
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As no "unbeliever is allowed to enter the gates of the Holy City of Arabia, and in view of the great friendship of her husband with Ibn Saud, the Wahhabi monarch, it is a balance on the wrong side of an Excise duties was £288,000,000, not unlikely that Mrs. Philby will £32,279,000. The Chancellor had which was £12,000,000 below the follow her husband's example and estimated in his Budget last year estimate.
I believe that this, shortage is
(By Viscount Snowden.)
The financial year has ended with↑ he actual yield of the Customs
became a Moslem,
*** |for a surplus of $796,000.
It was as a Moslem, with a beard, The whole of the deficit is ac-mainly accounted for by the failure that Mr. Philby carried through last counted for by two items: one an of the import duties and the beer year his wonderful trek across the unexpected payment, and the other duty to come up to the Chancellor's Great Southern Desert of Arabia. the failure of an expected receipt. hopes.
The payment of the half-yearly "His estimate of £73,000,000 from Indeed, he is now known as “Hajii Abdullah”, on his frequent business debt instalment to Americe of the beer duty will be found, when £29,000,000 was not provided for in the detailed figures are published,
trips to Mecer.
He is at present engaged in the estimated expenditure for the to be some millions short. developing the natural resources of year which has just closed, and the Whether this is due, or to what Ibn Saud's country in the Hejaz. failure of the Irish Free State extent it is due, to the increased Government to pay the Land Aduty imposed eighteen months ago nuities has reduced the estimated will be settled according to indivi-
dual opinions.
Lady Evelyn Cobbald: Very few Englishwomen have receipts by $3,500,000.
Taking these two items together,
The taxpayer is much less inter- ever seen Mecca, though actually a
we get a sum which is $177,000 ested in Customs and Excise duties, well-known Moslem Englishwoman, Lady Evelyn Cobbold,, is now in the more than the amount of the defcit.(which he payato a great extent The result is one on which the without his knowledge, than he is Hejaz and intends to perform the Chanceller may congratulate him-in the income tax, the surtax, and pilgrimage.
Facts You Did Not Know.
Mrs. Philby, who has a son atic, and one which is much better estate duties,
than at one time seemed probable. The yield of the income tax has Cambridge and two daughters, is a
Miraculous
fallen short of the estimate by handsome woman, very popular (n) society. She has lived for con- Though the total figures of In-[£8,500,000. siderable periods in Irak and come and expenditure have so close-
A Serious Fall. Transjordan, when her husband was ly approximated, apart from the
The Chancellor had estimated for in Government service there.
American Debt payment, there is
As hardly a separate item of receipts £200,000,000 from income tax. which has realised the Budget an illustration of the effect of the trade depression on' incomes it may estimate.
This always happens.
be pointed out that the receipts Mr. Walter Harris sent last. June
Unexpected receipts from unex-from income tax last year were his account of the enormous vol- About 97 per cent. of the auto-pected quarters miraculously come £6,000,000 less than in the previous
the year at the same poundage. canic stones which are the cur-mobiles in Argentina are products forward to compensate for
The wonderful response of the in- rency and the basis of the credit of factories in the United States. failure of estimates in. other direc
come tax payers in the previous of the Yap islanders in the Pacific
To furnish an intense, spark re- The most remarkable instance of year was bound to have an effect Ocean he was careful to explain that these people were of a very gardless of the condition of an au- this law of compensations was my on the yield of last year.
has 1924 Budget-
There is always a large amount low type of humanity and that tomobile's battery a booster
That Budget balanced at the end of arrears of Income tax outstand- their creation of currency and been invented that automatically Recently it was announced credit owed its origin to their throws a six volt dry battery into to within one-sixteenth of one per ing at the end of the year, and it that Brazil was hoping to buy retarded intelligence. History series with the regular battery. jeent. of the estimated surplus, is probable that the large yield in ships from Britain and from seems to show that the complex-
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though the separate Items of re- the previous year was made up to other countries, and to pay for ity of coinage has been resisted New highways will be construct venue all varied considerably from a considerable extent by the pay- ment of arrears outstanding from them not in money but in coffee by every people until resistance ed from Genos to Milan and Turin, the original estimates. and other things that Brazil her was no longer possible. The Italy, to accommodate the heaviest
What was lost on the swings was former years, self produces. The news was a Standese, for instance, as a re-types of motor trucks and their gained on the roundabouts. The failure of the income tax to Last year, with one exception, all realise the estimate last year is good excuse for wagging the cent study proves, were content traders, all grade crossings be head over the doom of finance to use barter, and gold and silver tween terminals being eliminated. the separate items of ordinary probably due to not taking into full revenue have fallen short of the account the extent to which the Certain United States in South (if at all) by weight until, less
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It is Interesting to examine these year were swollen by arrears. practical account a truth which stances compelled them to make of wooden shoes are made in the certain United States in North the coins named (with truer Netherlande each year the produc- separate items, as they give some America had more than hinted-spiritual than material signifition is not sufficient to supply the indication of the trend of the yield has not come up to expectations. that the huge artificial system cance) bullets; and only last demand and nearly as many more of particular taxes, which is a guide of money as a token of value, & month Dr. G. C. Erooke, lecturare imported, chiefly from
gium. medium of exchange, and a lot ing to the Royal Numismatic So-
of other things besides, had come ciety, maintained that the native.
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Jestimate by nearly six millions. It is very creditable to the I should say that the explanation revenue experts that, when dealing of this is that sufficient account was with figures running into hundreds not taken of the fact that the frat of millions, they are able to estimate years of the depression have now : taxes more than a year the time when all the become due.
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tax.
The receipts from surtax this last year are less by nearly £17,000.000 than those of the previous year.
This is a very serious matter for
Windfalle
ence of previous years. They know the Chanceller, because this drop clusively the cause of all good or one peculiar use is for tossing up
the duties and taxes which have and the fall in the yield of the in- the root of all evil. Travellers with; and in boat-bouses, cricket Mrs. C. B. Maddox arrived here, been showing a tendency to decline, come tax will have to be taken into can tell of remote places, even in pavilions, and so on the dice would yesterday, by the s.6. President and those which show an upward serious consideration in framing
tendency.
this year's Budget. Britain, where the price of a serve the same purpose much Cleveland.
In the case of the income tax] dress-length is a joint off the better. In fact, the more coolly sheep that bore the wool, and it is looked at, the clearer does it Mr. D. E. Lane arrived in the which is assessed on the profits and
The most amazing item in the tobacco is bought with (not become that money, coined or un- Colony on the s.5. President Cleve incomes of the previous year, which made from) cabbages. The ad- coined, is mere dross, a thing land, yesterday.
are already known in the case of receipts last year was the catate vertisement columns of London that the world could easily do
public companies, it is not difficult duties.
The Chancellor had estimated for newspapers show the variety and without. And that is just as Mr. John H. Bast was a passen-to make an approximate estimate. elasticity of which barter is cap well, seeing that most of us have ser by the s.s. President Van Buren, When the yield falls short of the $76,000,000 from this source, and estimate it is usually due to the he has actually exceeded this figure able. A milliner's offer to make already to do without more than which arrived here yesterday. latest fashion hat each month for a very little of it,
failure to collect the tax rather than by over a million.
(Continued on" Page. 7.) Major M. James arrived in the to the inaccuracy of the estimate.
In the case of the Customs and Colony in the ss. President Van
Excise duties, which, are on articles
18 months for young, well-bred greyhound" is a little ambiguous,
because on these days of "grac
Industry's Real Need
Buren, yesterday.
Every time the Chancellor of
of consumption, the demand for
ing" there is no knowing to what lengths the pampering - of sUC-
Mr. and Mrs. T. Begg arrived, which is fairly steady, the prospect ANCIENT QUARRIES cessful greyhounds may not go; the Exchequer, is due to speak on here yesterday on the 2.8. Patroclus, of trade and employment in the but there is no ambiguity about Unemployment the idea is en- from Europe. "Permanent wave in exchange couraged in some quarters that
for wire-haired terrier," and very he may announce some new Mr. J. R. Hagman was a passen- little about "Wrinkles removed scheme of national expenditure rer on the sa. Patroclus which ar- immed, exch. for two-seater car for the purpose of creating em-rived here yesterday from the or anything useful." The offer ployment. As often he disclaims United Kingdom,
main factor which has to be con- sidered, "apart from the known
FOUND:
tendency of changes in the habits of Discovery After 3,500 the people. Mode
Years.
The duties on tea and sugar are remarkably responsive to the amount
Cairo. of purchasing power in the pockets of a long musquash coat. In ex- all such intention and shows that-
After being last for more than 95 a centuries, the magnificent diorite change for a Times Atlas is an he has no sort of hellef in the in the burden of the rates. The of the people. encouraging sign of the increas efficacy of auch a policy. He is more provident municipalities. Eper is the BR but in this quarries of the old kingdom of ing seriousness of this troubled quite right, because when it was 16 fact, feel that they have case, apart from the state of trade, Egypt have been discovered about age though against it a cynic tried it completely failed, and heavily mortgaged their future, there has been a constant decline in 40 miles north-west of Abu Simbel, might set that of a dainty hand- there would be no sense in yield- especially those which have prob-consumption for many year states a communique issued here.
It set in long before the war sewn nightie for a dance frock," ing to clamour and trying it ably already reached their max Increases of the duty, much of the building material of "The quarriés, from which so on the ground that there could again. But what many people mum size in the way of popula
leuations G
the ancient Egyptians was extract- be precious little difference be will not understand is that there Hon. It is not, in fact, by fres tween the two. But barter, not is a happy mean between, refus expenditure that the Chancellor Two factors, account mainly for ed, are situated in a most desolate modes and manners, is our sub-ing to incur any new expenditure of the Exchequer can restore this improved sobriety and the spot. There is no sign of life of any kind and no traces of their fett: and the offers of an organ at all and seeking' but opportuni- confidence and give fillip to in cinema (Trinity Church) for typewriter" ties to spend. Yet this is actual ustry, so much as by reducing The Chancellor had estimated for having been visited at all in and of a complete, feminine out-ly the Government's polles No taxation. Mr. Chamberlain also around sum of £200,000,000 from modern times. fit for "driving taltion are scheme that promises to be in spoke with alcome glow of Customs and Ex
gh to force home the point any degree remanera is optimism of the much improved round figure a more sim
But Mr.
the has turned out to
prospects for the World Econo L gues mie ConferencƏ RA'M TERI beneficial change which denly z occuryőd:
situation. holding the
duties. This Other recent discoveries near ggents hit Abu Simbel, include a tomb, quite
ofit intact," and containing the mum
not a very bad of a silver crowned king, ar prines with silver par ringa, y bon-rings, Ankle "and a sword with a alvar hilt in bis right hand,
sels containing dates, brea wing were found placed ne mummy Reuter,
-and