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EMPIRE PARLIAMENTARY PARTY: CIVIC WELCOME AT THE TOWN HALL, MELBOURNE. 



Left to Right:— Back Row— Mr. D. H. Ross, Lord Richard Nevill, Mr. J. E. Penton MHR • 



Mr. J. Drysdale Brown, Senator OKeefe, Mr. J. Boyd. M.H.R.; Alderman J. Marks, Senator Givens! 



Hon W. H Kelly, Mr. Prank Brennan. M.H.R.; Mr. Massey Greene. M.H.R.; Mr. Howard D'Egville 



Mr John Ihomson, M.H.R.; Mr. Hamar Greenwood, M.P.; Mr. 8. Sampson, M.H.R.; Dr. Mafonev,' 



Front Row— Mr. Donald Macmaster. K.C., M.P.; Sir Joseph Walton, M.P • Mr W Watt Lord 

 Emmott. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Joseph Cook, Mr. C. B. Stuart Wortlev, K.C. M P • Sir John Forrest 

 M.H.R.; Sir Stephen Collins, M.P.; Arthur Sherwell, M.P. ' driest. 



dicates that for this year it will be 

 £24,115,223, of which £21,462,000 will 

 be met by revenue, the balance of 

 £2,653,223 being the surplus accumu- 

 lated out of the revenues of 1910-11, 

 1911-12, 1912-13. In addition to 

 spending" the entire revenue and the 

 accumulated surplus, the Government 

 intends to borrow £3,080,000 for rail- 

 way construction (£1,400,000 for the 

 Port Augusta-Kalgoorlie line, £400,000 

 for Northern Territory lines, £60,000 

 for the Papuan lines), £300,000 for 

 purchase of land for drill halls, etc., 

 for land defence purposes; £175,000 

 for machinery, etc., at Cockatoo 

 Island ; £595,000 for post and tele- 

 graph purposes; £150,000 for the erec- 

 tion of the Commonwealth Building in 

 London. The total amount to be spent 

 in this financial year has reached the 

 huge sum of £27,200,000. This works 

 out at £5 13s. per head of population. 

 If to this sum we add the various ex- 

 penditures of the States, we get a total 

 of £70,000,000 spent on governing and 

 providing for the well being of 

 4,800,000 people at a cost to them of 



about £ 14 10s. each per annum. In 

 England the total expenditure of close 

 on £200,000,000 works out at only £5 

 per head. The comparison is, perhaps, 

 hardly a fair one, but it is useful never 

 theless. 



NO SECOND DREADNOUCHT. 



The Commonwealth will borrow in 

 future for the States, but they may bor- 

 row individually as well. The tariff 

 question is shelved until the report of 

 the Interstate Commission is received. 

 A uniform system of land values as- 

 sessment is to be made for all State and 

 Commonwealth purposes. Duplications 

 of Savings Bank business is to be pre- 

 vented. The Maternity allowance sys- 

 tem is not to be amended this session, 

 but a scheme of social insurance 

 projected to take its place. Sir John 

 states that the Government does not in- 

 tend to interfere with the expenditure 

 to which the country is committed, 

 which means that the Henderson pro- 

 gramme will be carried out, but the 

 Dreadnought Mr. Fisher intended to 

 put in hand at once will not be ordered 





