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INDEX

PAGE Amusements-tax .. .. 29 Assets : From Loan-moneys .. 22 Balance of Payments .. .. 12 Benefits : Social Security .. .. 30 Christmas Island Phosphates .. 25 Coal-mines, State .. .. 25 Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Conference .. .. 4, 5 Conclusion .. .. 32 Consolidated Fund .. .. 14 Debt, Public .. .. .. 20 Interest on .. ... .. 21 Defence .. .. 16 Dollar Difficulties .. 4, 7 Education : Increased Assistance .. 30 Estimates for 1949-50 — Consolidated Fund .. .. 14 National Development .. 23 Social Security Fund .. .. 18 War Expenses Account .. .. 19 Exchange Appreciation .. 13, 20 Expenditure .. 15, 18, 19, 23 Finance Ministers' Conference .. 4, 5 Housing .. .. .. 8, 23 Hydro-electricity .. .. 23, 24 Immigration .. .. .. 17 Income-tax Rebate .. .. 31 Insurance Against National .Disasters 29 Interest on Public Debt .. .. 21 International Trade .. .. 3 Land Settlement .. .. 24 Loan Moneys represented by Assets .. 22 Loan Repayments .. 20, 21 Loan Requirements .. 23

PAGE Ministerial Conference .. .. 4, 5 National Development Programme .. 23 National Disasters, Insurance- Against 29 National Income Statistics .. .. 26 Pensions, War .. .. .. 31 Phosphates, Christmas Island .. 25 Production and Trade .. .. 7 Prospectuses for Loans .. xxvi-xxxii Public Debt .. .. .. 20 Interest on .. .. 21 Rebate : Income-tax .. .. 31 Rehabilitation .. .. .. 19 Residential Accommodation, Assistance for .. .. 26 Revenue, Consolidated Fund .. 14 Savings .. .. .. 12 Social Security Benefits : Increases .. 30 Social Security Fund .. .. 18 Social Security Reciprocity .. 18 Stabilization .. .. .. 17 State Coal-mines .. .. 25 Statistics, National Income .. 26 Steel .. .. .. .. 24 Sterling Funds .. .. 10 Surplus, 1948-49 .. .. 1,14 Tables .. .. .. i-xxxii Taxation Revenue : How Spent .. 28 Tax Rebate : Income-tax .. .. 31 Tax Reductions Since the War .. 28 Telegraph Extension .. 23, 25 Trade .. .. .. 7 Wage Levels and Savings .. .. 12 War Expenses Account .. .. 19 War Pensions : Increases .. .. 31 Works Programme .. .. 23