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294 o1' BOOKS the debate on the Financial Statement is refieebed in-the order of print. The student will find in the volume. the speech of the Finance Member, followed by the Fi?ancial Statement for 1918-19 ,in the form of tables. Then comes the repor? of the debate in the hnperial Legislative Council and the Finance Member's Budget speech. The ?inancial Statement is made on the 1st of March sad the budget, which is a revi.sod Financial Statement, is presented to the Council three weeks later with revisions proposed by the Council and saggest. ed by the later information as regards the collection of current revenue. There follows a lengthy .Memorandum explaining the details of the estimates separately m?dor each heading; and the volume ends with three appen- dices: (1) a t?ro-.for,? account o? expendRare on Delhi Province, (2) an estimate of revenue and expenditure o[ India for 1918-19 giving details of Imperial and Provincial figures, (3) Commercial and financial statistics. This Financial Statement is the last to be issued by. Sir William Meyer whose notable tenure of office expir6s this year at the end o! August.. Tl?e Third lVage Census of the United Provi, ces (taken in August, 1916). Director of Land Records and Agri- culture, United Proflutes, pp.O. A census of urban and rmal w?ges is taken every fi?re years. The tables printed compare t. he wages in 1916 with equivalent figures in 1911 and show iu almost all cases more or less substantial i?creases. In fact there is only one decrease recorded, which is i? the ?noney value of a grain.wage paid to agric?dtaral labor in the Moarat district. It is noted that grain rates are tending to be replaced I?y cash wages. Returns were received from the saparvisor kanungos for 7,408 villages, of which returns for 133 were di?rdM. The instructions given w?ro th? the w?ge? paid by cultiva- tors to ordinary healthy m?u ba?we?n 40 and 45 were to be reported. So far as possible the wages paid by influential landlords who get labor at 'cheap rates were eliminat?. It is .rather 'confusing that in the same tables the wages are stated in ru?es, an,?s and pies, in others iu annas sad fr?ions, or in pice. The u? o[ the latter'unit in statistical averegen s?ms to be confssiug and unnecessary as the figures might easily ? convert? into annas.