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The following are the estimated figures for ordinary revenue and expendi- ture for the year 1920-21 : —

Ordinary Revenue (1920-21)

Ordinary Expenditure (IMC

-21)

s .....

6,900,000

Governor-General A Parliament


 * ,«» > 000

Ministerial Department of Prime

Ielegraphs & telephone*

8,090,090

iter and Native Attain.

474,117

Mining Revenue

2.32S,0<i0

tenal Department of—

Licences

Defence ....

1,2*7,395

Stamp Duties ami 1 i ea Income Tax, Super Tax, and |

900,000

Mines and Industries. Higher Education

355,605

Dividend Tax.

4,850,000

Finance-

Estate and Succession Duty.

300,000

Treasury ....

Native Poll Tax. . . \ Native Hut Tax ...»

830,000

Public Debt

7,195,5*4

Pensions

l,v- '..<•• ■»••■

Native Pass and Compound

High Commissioner.

60,074

40,000

Provincial Admin i -

4,291,350

Land Revenue ....

150,000

laneons Sen

167,273

Fore«t Revenue

75,000

Inland Revenue.

•9,108

R.-uts on Government Property

Audit ....

70.278

Interest

Customs and Ex

305,417

Departmental Receipt*.

Justice ....

Fines and Forfeitures

Interior ....

i,t4Mra

Miscellaneous.

100,000

Public Works

097.17:'.

Agriculture ....

1,076,992

ha and Tele-

■

206,304

Irrigation ....

179,490

Special Incremental Pay.

650,000

Total.

28,3S1,000

Total ordinary

28,71 1.S27

Expenditure, loan account.

13,^94,000

The gross Public Debt of the Union at March 31, 1920, was 173,904,818/.

The expenditure out of Loan Funds for war services during 1914-15 was 9,258,959/. ; 1915-16, 10,707,138/. ; 1916-17, 2.67C.058Z. ; 1917-18, 3, 4 ;.•->, 156/. ; 1918-19, 3,213,785/.; 1919-20, 2,525,000/. Excluding recoveries from sale of war material, the total charge on loan funds at March 31, 1920, will amount to 29,736,000/.

The railway earnings in 1919-20 totalled 19,575,7097., and the total expenditure came to 20,284,081?. ; harbours, revenue 1,010,265/., expenditure 993,071/. South African Steamships, 3 July, 1919, to 31 March, 1920 : quo, 268,903/. ; expenditure, 176,574/. ; leaving a total net deficit of 598,898/. The estimated expenditure for 1920-21 is : railways, 24,220,680/. ; harbours, 903,918/.

There is a provincial revenue fund in every Province, into which all revenues raised or received by the Province are paid. Appropriations are effected by Ordinance of the Provincial Council. It is only under the authority of such au Appropriation Ordinance that any withdrawal from the fund can take place. The provincial accounts are audited in each case by an auditor appointed and paid by the Union Government.

Defence.

During the latter part of the Great War the Union of South Africa provided the whole of the military forces necessary for its defence, and the last of the regular British troops were withdrawn. The forces of the Union are raised under a Defence Act under which all citizens are liable to service within the Dominion. As this would provide an unnecessarily large force, onlv a