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...budget estimates for the year 1923-4, $50,000,000 was appropriated to defray the cost of the Free State Army. Considerable criticism has been hurled at the Government by citizens who resent bitterly the high cost of the army when only $20,000,000, is appropriated on account of education...
...introducing the budget into the Parliament, Henry Burton, Minister of Finance, stated that the Union was faced with a deficit of ?1,353,000. He added, however, that the worst of the hard times through which South Africa had passed was over...
...Some budget proposals: New taxation on patent medicines and per- fumes; tooth paste and face powders exempted. Embargo on boots and shoes to be removed, but duties to be increased. Tax on matches to be doubled. Salaries of civil servants to be reduced...
...Legislative Assembly by 58 votes to 47 rejected a proposal to double the salt duty, after the budget was returned from the Council of State...
...view of the necessity of balancing the budget, it is thought that Lord Reading, the Viceroy, will certify the tax in an Extraordinary Gazette (special order) as essential for the safety, tranquillity and interests of British India...