CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940 — Page 5

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form.

ait for the Estimates in their final

A.N. Galsworthy

3rd November, 1939.

In 1938 Revere exceeded the estimate

by $61⁄2 million, Expenditure by $3.8

million

1

o the deficit

In 1939

was $440,043.

Revenue is expected to exceed

The estimate by $4.4 million and the actual revere for 1938 by $3.7 million; Expire. is expected to be $2.65 million over the estimate. The result would be

a surplus of $65,291 only, since a was brogeted for.

The expenditure budgeted for here

record, even

deficit

would be the highest on record, allowing for the longer period it has to On the other hand the Fin. Sec.

his Memo, says that includes

Caves.

in p.8 of

much that will probably not be incurred

Ewropean

if the) was continues. It also excludes much that will, but there is to be add-

itional revenue to

ardinam

cover that.

The) Revenue estimate assumed the

continuation

of

The ''boom' conditions pre- vaiting as a result of the influx of

refugees in 1939, and cannot by any

stretch of the imagination be called

conservative.

Even so

These Estimates

would produce

a

deficit of

about

$327,000. The only counter-argument to the theory that they are unsound is

that we have had our

doubts in

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