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TABLE II.
Expenditure by Colonies who obtain their Defence from United Kingdom.
1906-1907.
1907-1908.
1908-1909.
£
Gibraltar Malta (and
Cyprus Egypt and
£
351,830
Total cost Contribu- Total cost Contribu- Total cost Contribu- for 8 years.
tion by Oolony.
of
defence.
of
defence.
tion by Colony.
of
defence.
tion by Colony.
મ
£
£ 337,949
£
£ 372,312
£
Average oost
Average Contribu. tion for
3 years.
Proport defence
cost of
paid by Colony.
Crete).
***
Crete. Bouth Africa 2,246,674 4,000 1,764,130 Mauritius
225,419 Sierra Leone 166,854 126,274
£ 427,159 746,581
11,699
11,420
10,779
11,299 342,779 100,000 | 476,130 |150,000 | 477,317 |150,000 | 432,075 | 133,333
1,688,619
1,898,141 27,300 125,760 27,000 118,621 27,000 156,600 87,100
160,140
5,000 | 632,640 5,000 602,448 5,000 660,35-6 5,000
-0075
308
.173
153,919
131,960
130,054
TE
160,204
129,429
130,250
108,000
125,411
131,290
...
91,190 140,600
101,670
72,000
191,256 182,500
184,180 | 208,000
88,297 79,000 198,719 97,200 183,765 204,800
1-037
186,400 198,438 1.064
Hong Kong .
412,0451 124,05,1*|
|
-
T
*325
This memorandum was written over a year ago. The financial position of the Colony is such that it was necessary in preparing the Budget for 1910 to reduce expenditure, or increase revenue, by the sum of eight lakhs (about 13 per cent.), and Yet in spite of this financial crisis new and heavy taxation had to be imposed. the military contribution automatically increases, and adds another lakh to the deficit to be made good.
The failure of the system to effect the object with which it was introduced has naturally created dissatisfaction in the Colony, but it will be observed from a perusal of the speeches of Unofficial Members in the Budget debate of 21st October, 1909, that there was no opposition to the contribution itself, nor was it alleged that it was excessive. Criticism was confined to the fact that its incidence so little realised the object of automatic adjustment to the prosperity of each year that now at a time of unprecedented financial difficulty it increased enormously.
26th October, 1909.
F. D. L.
Place.
Bermuds
Jamaica
Ceylon Straits Settle-
ments.
TABLE I.
Expenditure on Defence by Colonies providing their own Defences.
Military
Ordinary
Place.
Expenditure Percentage
including
of
Revenue.
1/3rd
Revenue.
Amount spent on Public Works Extraordinary.
Public Works Extraordinary
Percentage of
of Civil.
Bevenue,
Military Expenditure.
£
£
%%
£
%
(1)
(2)
(3)
Gold Coast
605,663
132,679
21.9
37,122
6.12
27.97
(4)
(5)
Northern Nigeria
449,846
223,512
49.78
75,657
16-81
33-84
(6)
Southern Nigeria
368,086
64,283
17.46
70,544
19.16
109.73
(7)
Uganda
188,679
90,064
47.73
13,000
6.88
14.43
(8)
(9)
East Africa
443,169
103,311
23.31
(1)
(10)
British Guiana
533,526
67,039
12.56
17,809
3.33
26.56
6)2,588,969
Mean.
*£431,494
(11)
Hong Kong
$6,389,708
6)680,888 £113,481
(12) $1,328,717
· 6)172-74 28.79
5)214,132 £42,826
5)52.30 10-46
5)212-53
42.5
$1,526,406
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+
@ 18. 9d.
£559,099
£116,262
20.79
23.88
114.87
(1) Average of 5 years.
(3) Include #17,712 grant in aid.
(8) Preventive Service shown in Accounts na Military
Expenditure: Polios are excluded.
(4) Average of 5 years.
(B) Includes 4408,100 grans in nåd.
(*) Average of 3 years (1899 and 1905).
0
M
+
4
M
Includes 4944,984 grant in aid.
<10) Includes quarter of Civil Expenditure.
(11) Average of 5 years.
(19) Including Volunteers.
£133,560
• Percentage of Military Expenditure to Ordinary
Revenue from imperfect figures supplied by each Colony.
Gold Coast
18-85 average of 11 years.
Northern Nigeria
36.71
#
1
19
Bouthern Nigeria
11-00
ช
Uganda...
367.46
Eat Afrios
12-18
14
British Guiana .......
Hoa? Kor
20-19
+
*(1904–1996).
18 0.0, despatch No. 87 of 1907.
'See Blue Book, 1907.
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