CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7] — Page 66

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and

our revenue shrinking, the consequent diminution in future years of the estimated surplus in the current year of.

revenue

over ordinary expenditure.

There are

factors in our

Revenue which

give

serious

grounds for apprehending the diminution, or even the - total disappearance of such surplus. I allude more particularly to the fact that about a fifth of our

revenue

revenue is derived from the opium farm, and that there

are circumstances connected with it which render it. -

practically certain that this

source

ofr

revenue will

become less productive in -future years, and not improbable that it may be altogether extinguished at

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very distant date. It should also be borne in

mind that although the bank

may be glad to continue