The Salt Revenue also has exceed: ed previous totals and from the tion available to the Central ernment regular payments been made on the "salt-secured"" foreign loans, though the liqui tion of arrears undertaken by the Minister of Finance in 1929 has unfortunately fallen slightly short of 'A fact which, per haps, is apt to escape notice is'that, in origin, the Salt Inspectorate, means of which between 150 and 200 million dollars of revenue now annually collected, owes its organisation to the scheme elaborate ed by the foreign banks in 1912 and 13 in connection with the Reorganisation Loan and to the work of Sir Richard Dane and his foreign and Chinece stof engaged by the Gov-iment to put the scheme in effect,
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