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and I have already dealt with them in some detail in the rosolutions moved earlier in the present meeting to provide funds for their continuance during the coming year, while the Water Works have been made the special subject of Your Excellency's address this

afternoon.

I come then, Sir, to the Estimates of Expenditure for the year 1930. The notes in the draft Estimates, the usual annotated abstract of differences in expenditure, and the momorandum of the Hon. Director of Public Works on the works provided for under Public Works Extraordinary will afford Hon. Members much information on points of detail and will I hopo justify mo in restricting myself to the broader aspects of the Budget.

Hon. Hombors will soc that the total

expenditure is estimated at $27,268,515 of which $1,787,650 is required for Public Works Recurrent and $3,840,750 for Public Works Extraordinary, while I need hardly remind Hon. Membors that the Bill now before them, in which the total expenditure is given as $22,038,879 does not include the sums of $3,865,560 for filitary Contribution and $1,364,076 for Public Debt Charges though these items are included in the printed Estimatos of Expenditure.

There are increases under nearly every Head and in explanation of this I would observe that for

the

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