Papua's Finances
pp. 58-60 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, Feb. .18.
pAPUA’S total revenue for the half year end • ing December 31, 1938. amounted to £78,087.
This is £15,472 less than the revenue for the corresponding months of 1937; the difference be ing accounted for by reduced sales of postage stamps and a falling off of £1,902 in Customs dues.
Expenditure during the period was £77,223.
The details show an increase in the expenditure on the Government Secretary’s Department and on Public Works, and decreases in practically all other directions.
The Trust Fund aggregated £71,291, including Native Taxation Fund, £21,170.
After a voyage of 37 days from San
Pedro, California, the 48-ton auxiliary
yacht “Navigator” arrived at Auckland,
via the Pacific Islands, on February 10,
The position recently held by Rev.
F. G. Lewis, as chairman of the Methodist Mission Society in New Guinea will be occunied bv Rpv l MarArthnr r a dTfh wbn W 2 A ; ® ipEd .’ wh ° J? as been stationed cit Vunsirims, Other
changes are: Rev. Howard Pearson to Kabakada and later to open a new station in the Bainings; Rev. G. J. fatten to Namatanai; Rev. C. W. J. bannering: to Vunairima, where he will be in charge of the education section there