Papuan Finances
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From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, Aug. 16.
THE total revenue for Papua for 1935/36 tc June 30 amounted to £165,688, compared with £152,611 for the previous year. This is a rise of £13,077, due chiefly to increases in import duties, sale of stamps, and station produce.
Expenditure was up £13,348, principal increases being in the magisterial services and the Govern ment Secretary’s Department. Medical services also showed an increase as did the accounts of the Public Works Department.
At the close of the year the balance on revenue account showed £295, compared with £428 in the previous year. The public debt stood at £61,472, due to the Commonwealth of Australia.
Archdeacon and Mrs. Ralph de Voil, of the Melanesian Mission, Rabaul, New Guinea, received many congratulations on August 6 on the birth of a son, Chris topher Charles.
Mrs. George H. Murray, wife of the Director of Agriculture in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, left Sydney to join her husband at Rabaul by the Macdhui on August 20.