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the
expenditure, including payments made by the Crown Agents up to the of last February
end
on
account of 1891, amounted
to about $170,000, excluding the expenditure Public Works extraordinary to some $130,000. These
on
be taken as
amounts may approximately showing the extent to which the proposed alteration will affect the financial results of the
current
current
year, vir. $130,000 if the extraordinary expenditure be met from a loan, or in the opposite event, #170,000.
The revenue.
4.
for 1899
is estimated at $2,144,178,-
and the ordinary expenditure at $1,773,918, showing
an
lus of the
estimated surplus
former
over the latter of
#370,260. This surplus
is.
subject to reduction by _
on account of
$114,000
shrinkage in the Opnum
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