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THE BRITISH EMPIRE :— CANADA

Provincial Revenues and Expenditures.

Province

Revenue

Expenditure

Ontario ....

Quebec ....

Nova Scotia.

New Brunswick.

Manitoba

British Columbia .*

Prince Edward Island

Oct. 31, 1919 June 30, 1919 Sept. 30 1919

Oct. 31. 1919 Nov. 30, 1919

Mar.31, 1919 Dec. 31, 1919 Dec. 31, 1918

Dollars

19,904,772

12,666,352

3,2S0,313

2,182,419

S,613,3<34

10,937,279

501.951

7,660,762

Dollars

21,464,575

12,371,131

3,280,282

2,595,937

8,417,942

9,889,745

655,409

8,303,807

8,125,202

Saskatchewan

Feby. 2S, 1919

8,733,761

Defence.

Under the Militia Act of 1904, the command in chief of the militia is vested in the King, hy whom, or by the Governor-General as his representa- tive, it is exercised and administered. The Act further provides for the appointment of a Minister of Militia and Defence, charged with the ad- ministration of militia affairs, and of a Deputy Minister ; also for the appoint- ment of a Militia Council. This includes, besides the Minister and Deputy Minister, four military members — the Chief of the General Staff, the Adjutant- General, the Quartermaster- General, and the Master-General of the Ordnance. There is also an Inspector-General whose duty it is to inspect the forces and report to the Militia Council on their readiness for war, but he has no seat in Council.

The Canadian land forces are divided into the active militia and the reserve militia. The active militia consists of a permanent force and of a non -permanent force, the latter divided into city and rural corps. Service in the active militia is voluntary and for three years, but the Government has the power to apply compulsion should the necessity arise. The per- manent force comprises all arms of the service and is composed of a nunibtr of permanently embodied units. It provides personnel for the various schools of military instruction and garrisons for the fortresses, where a per- manent element is necessary for defence, for the maintenance of works and for the preservation of armaments. The non-permanent active militia under- goes an annual period of training, which varies from 12 to 16 days, according to the arms of the service and the location of the corps, i.e., whether they are city or rural. (Owing to there-organization of the active militia, it baa not been possible to make much progress with its training during the past season.) The reserve militia has not yet been organised.

The authorised establishment for the permanent force is approximately 6,700. The non-permanent active militia is comprised of such corps as from time to time are authorised by the Governor-General in Council. In pre-war days its strength was approximately 68,000.

The above organisations are supplemented by numerous cadet corps and rille associations. The Royal Military College at Kingston piovides both a military und a general education. It trains officers both for the permanent lore!! and for the remainder of the active militia, and a certain number of commissions in the British regular army are granted annually to its cadets.

Schemes for a Cauadian Navy have been mooted but are at present some- what in abeyance. The old cruisers Niobe and Rainbow, taken over as training ships, have been employed in commerce protection, and are now to be The local force consists otherwise of a number of miscellaneous gun- vessels and icebreakers, some of which arc on the Great Lakes. At the outbreak of the