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upkeeping the rolling stock of the Canton section.
This work is paid for and we receive hire for the
loan of such engines as are used to draw tains o12
through runs. The running cxpenses in general promisc
to be met by the returns.
Hoad 33 - Volunteer Corps. The Government
is anxious to encourage the Corps in every way and
evidence of this is to be seen in the votos put
before you.
Facilities are given for training selected
Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers in England.
Largely increased allowances are made for ammunition
and a vote is entered for the purpose of encouraging the Volunteer Band which has been so successfully
started. Special expenditure provides material which
should make the Volunteers a Force to be reckoned with
in any emergency
Under Head 35 is entered a vote of $4,800
for the St. Louis Industrial Institution which is
doing excellent work and may lead the way to filling
a long felt need in the Colony by giving instruction
and education to boys who might otherwise find them-
selves among the ranks of the criminals.
Finally it will be noted that under Head 36
allowance is made for Interest and Sinking Fund for
the whole $5,000,000 loan authorised by the Legislature.
It will be remembered that $3,000,000 only has so far
been floated.
The Budget as framed and now put before you
represents therefore an expenditure of $24,799,650 with a possible call on liquid reserves of $2,521,050
and a reserve balance of $2,056,860, a position which
compares well with the position as foroshadowed when
the