Revenue
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Improved Papuan
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, May 25.
PAPUAN revenue at the end of the third quarter of the financial year shows improve ment. Receipts for the 9 months to March 31 are £9555 in excess of the amount for the ing period of 1935. Total revenue was £124,010.
Main increases were in import postal receipts, sale of stations produce, and £5OOO addi tional grant from the Commonwealth for mining development, subsequently transferred to trust Fund. The only decrease in revenue of any note was £1144 in mining receipts.
Expenditure for the 9 months totalled £121,024, an increase of £9962 over that for the period ended March. 1935. Chief increases were in the Magisterial Service and Medical Department.
Surplus at March 31 was £3414 compared with £3684 the previous year.
Right Rev. W. H. Baddeley, Bishop of Melanesia, arrived in Auckland by the Aorangi on June 8, after a visit to Eng land and America. He spent several days in New Zealand before leaving for Sydney.