Four Times Higher Than it Pre-War Days: Where the Money Goes How Government expenditure has soared since pre-war days is indicated in a White Paper pub lished recently. It gives figures showing that the country's gross expenditure for the year 1923-24 will be more than four times as great as in the year 1913-14, The actual figures are:—
This year £875,535,000 Pre-war year £207,817,437
Startling at first sight, the contrast is greatly tempered when one considers the immense reductions in national expenditure since the close of the war, as il-Instrated by the following figures 1919-20 £2,038,784,158
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