The Archive · 1938

Exchequer Returns Show Expenses

London, Sept. 20.

Exchequer returns show that the ordinary revenue amounts to £287,702.553 "compared with £202,- 874,049 at the corresponding date "of ast year. To date national defence contribution has yielded £6,030,000.

The sterling funding bonds will be the following "denominations: Canton-Kowloon. £11: Honan, £ 9 Tientsin-Pukow, £ 6, £ 11 10s and 12, Holders of fractional scrip cer~ tiftcates who exchange into funding bonds will be required 10 pay stamp duly on the issue of the bonds.

The fractional scrip certificates will confer no right, except to receive in exchange sterling funding bends for the appropriate amount. But the Government will be pre-pied, if requested, to waive the shir of the issue of the funding permit holders who fill te to receive vain: {fractional lems, is £438,080,721 compared 982,107,143 " year ago. The net tloweng debt since winning of she. financial" £77,990,000, and the total st ing is £919,085,000 compared £901,880,000 " at the corresponding date "of 1007.—Wireless through nts 3

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