W. Samoa's Healthy
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Finances
£400,000 of Reserve
Prom Our Own Correspondent APIA, June 19.
THE Finance Committee and the Western Samoa Legislative Council will meet next week to consider the Estimates for the coming financial year.
Most important items will be the pro posed expenditure of some £73,000 on a new hydro-electric scheme, and £97,000 on new roads.
The financial year ended on March 31 with a surplus of revenue over expendi ture of £90,000. This makes the total reserves of the Administration now £400,000.
New building and roadmaking schemes of the Administration are hampered by shortages of materials —roofing iron, rein forcing steel, timber, paints, etc.
Two new Administration buildings now under construction are a broadcasting studio and a , transmitter station at Afiamalu.