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Abstract of Expenditure has been altered by totalling all

expenditure other than Public Works Extraordinary, in order

to emphasize the difference between recurrent and extraordinary

cxpenditure. Expenditure from surplus balances has been

shown in a separate line. The particular item this year is

for the Naval Arsenal scheme which is considered a proper charge

against Surplus Balances. To charge it against current revenue

would mean either starving Public Works Extraordinary to that

extent, or raising further taxation. It is confidently expected

that the Government will recover the expenditure from the sale

of the land in question. Another alteration in the form of

the Estimates is in Head 35 Public Works Department. Instead of

moattering the staff in full detail under the different sub-

departments, all staff common to the department as a whole, e.g

engineers, overseers, foremen, messengers, etc., is grouped

under "General Staff". Specialists such as Land Surveyors and

Meter Readers remain under their sub-departments, whilst the

electrical sub-department is retained as a separate entity.

The distribution of the General Staff is however set out in

detail in Appendix III. The sub-head Conveyance Allowances

has been reduced from two pages to a few lines, showing the

amount for each sub-de partment instead of for each individual

officer. The se alterations have been made solely for the sake

of clarity and convenience and I trust that Hon. Members will

approve.

Non. Members will see that we have budgeted for an

expenditure of $34,981,661 to meet which we expect to receive

a revenue of $33,991,510 and to withdraw a sum of $1,000,000

from our Sirolus Balances.

This last sum as I have already

remarked