CO129-518-8 Colonial Development Fund- requests and recommendations for monetary assistance for various projects 30-8-1929 - 28-2-1930 — Page 45

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Public debt outstanding at the

end of 1928

follows:-

£240,000 at 4%

incurred in 1887 (Public Works).

k 200,000

at 32%

£1,799

at 31⁄22%

2-1143,933 at 3=2%

$4,927,000 at 6%

The total amount of sterling debt

outstanding ( at the close of 1928

:

test, the

was £ 1,485,732 ; New Ed.

sinking fund on the same date

ancounted to ₤ 631,050.

The balance of surplus assets

in recent years

follows:-

1893 ( deito)

1894 (to defray

loan conversion costs)

1906 (Loan to Clumise

Prowel Goot for Rail ? Construction) 1927 (Public works)

has been as

31.12.25

$8, 113, 482

(Figs. taken

31.12.26

3,486,290

31.12.2

3,985,761

31.12.28

from Eats. file)

8,091,633 (of which $6,604, 345 represented

(quid assets).