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

previous years

I have been proved

6

# I have given repics.

to its engin in mimin

'

The file about th loan schedules

(53593/39)

wrong.

Among the proposed new items of

expenditure I notice $100,

ooo for a cereus

in 1941 + $140,000 for Centenary celebra- tions. An additional $318, 300 is to be

Police there are to be increased

Spent on

radjustments of Prisons statt, presumably

Commissione's

in implementation

of

The new

recommendations for reform. There is $235,00

for the new Teachers Training College, ranotho Laze "In the items to be provided for by sum to

tar

a

for A.R.P.

kowowing from swplus against a tutive Joan of uncertain dimensions (which former- by consisted of water works entirely, except

small part of the Central Market), is included provision for preliminar, investigations for aerodrome extensions. It is presumably intended to finance the ex- tensions themedves, which are expected to Cost great deal

great deal, in the same way.

now in

This somewhat nebulous future loan F seems to have provided an irresistable. Hemp- tation to additional expenditure, and it is clear from the figures in the last para. of MS Galsworkin's mini., thy marginal note to it, that if these estimates were to be carried out in full the raising of the re- mainder of the 1934 Loan during 1940 could not have been avoided, quite apart from

expenditlive on Dotence, such as

special

any

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Othe

wise

is now contemplated / not only would

cathameite

all the sublus balances have been eaten up, but some $2,100,000 would have had to be found from somewhere else.

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