London, Feb, 28.
The modest item of £50,000 for the King's Jubilee celebrations figures among the Estimates, made for the first time to-day, of civil and revenue departments for the coming year.
The estimates total altogether £430,210,024, which, due to subsidies the meat, shipping, milk and beet sugar industries, exceeds Budget estimates by £13,993,002.
The Ministry of Labour requires only £23,390,000 for this year, a decrease of £44,339.280 as" compared with last year, owing to a reduction unemployment insurance, but 3 new item of £50,000,000 appears.
This sum is the cost of relief for the uninsured unemployed, which task has been transferred from the Ministry to the Unemployment Assist ance Board.
Most departments show an increase, but the sum budgetted for the @iplomatic and consular section of the Foreign Ofice is down by £25,000.
The nation's contribution to the League of Nations is shown as £168.- 500 against £163,400 last year.
The Defence Estimates next week must show a large increase, especi ally as money for new squadrons for the Force was not voted last year.
'Meanwhile, revenue ie flowing in well. Last week the amount received was' £4,000,000 above that for the same period last -year.
Tncome tax is also most buoyant. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, budgetted for a shrinkage of £9,500,000 for the whole year, but receipts s0 far have actually been £2,000,000 in excess of the sum received for the same period last year.
Financial writers anticipate a small surplus, but they do not expect 3 Femission of taxation—Reuter.
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