CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939 — Page 12

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of $220,000 odd over the approved estimates as the

result of expenditure on refugees and on the two

serious epidemics of smallpox and cholera which broke

out during the year.

The military contribution is $190,000 odd

higher than the approved estimates as the result of

even

general increased revenue, excluding by the current year.

the $1 miller

which remams the hard

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of

Pensions show a large increase of $380,000

over the approved estimates.

The Police Force cost $107,000 less than

the approved estimates.

The cost of the wireless side of the Post

Office work cost $180,000 less than the approved

estimates.

The Public Works Department cost $220,000

less than the approved estimates, but Public Works

Recurrent were $300,000 higher and Public Works

Extraordinary $870,000 higher as a result of typhoon

repairs, construction of additional works and of

camps for destitute refugees.

The total expenditure was $1,776,806 more

than approved estimates and $3,044,133 more than in

1937.

It is estimated that there will be a small

surplus of $500,000 odd at the end of the year,

before certain accounting adjustments are made, but

this surplus is illusory and is due to the fact that

the payment of nearly $1,000,000 for the military

contribution will not be made until 1939. The real

result of the year will therefore be a small deficit.

The following are the most important

The comparison is

changes in the 1939 estimates.

with the approved estimates for 1938.

Revenue.