PROVINCE OF THE ORANGE FREE STATE
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services and duties assigned to the Provinces. The following figures show the estimates of expenditure to be defrayed by the Orange Free State Pro- vince during the year ending March 31, 1913 and a comparison with the approximate expenditure in the preceding year.
Title.
Estimates 1912-13.
Union Subsidy 1912-13.
Re-votes
from 1911-12.
Estimated I Estimates Total } 1911-12. Extieudiiuret 1912-13. I
General Administration
Education ... ... ...
Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Roads and Local AVorks
Total £
£
14,500 258.500
19,400 249,100(1)
541,500
£
1,2^3
2,7(39
1,338
85,(510
91,000
£
15,783 261,269
20,738 334.710
632,500
£
13,825 207,309
16,955 231,300(2)
469,389
The following Services are rendi.
red free
Estimated Departmental Receipts of
by Union Government Depart
ments.
the Pjovince.
1912-13.
1911-12.
1912-13.
1911-12.
£
£
£
£
Aj;riculturc
100
—
Scliool Fees and
Public Health
10
50
Bursary Funds ...
19,000
16,050
Printing & Stationery
5,500
5.320
Hospital Fees, Ac.
2,800
2.800
Prisons
2,500
—
Deposits under
Forestry
227
120
Roads Ordinance
480
600
Irrigation
3,000
—
Miscellaneous
120
—
Public Works Depart-
Services ren<iered to
ment
8,000
—
other Departments
Nil
Nil
Posts, Telegraphs and
Telephones
1,920
4,000
Total ... £
Total ... £
21,257
9,490
22,400
19,-150
1 Includes 12,000?. from Loan Fxmds. - Includes Supplementary Estimates 50,OOOL
Production and Industry.— The Province consists of undulating plains, affording excellent grazing and wide tracks for agricultural purposes. Thf rainfall is moderate. The country is still mainly devoted to stock-farming, although a rapidly increasing quantity of grain is being raised, esjjccially in the Eastern Districts. The Department of Agriculture encourages practical and scientific farming of all kinds and is divided into branches dealing with experimental farm work, forestry, horticulture, dairying, sheej) and wool, stock diseases, kc. Experimental farms, forest stations, horticultural plots, &c. , have been established, and lectures are given in the various districts by specialists of the Department with a view to enabling the farmers to benefit by tli« latest improvements in agricultural methods. The Land Board, created in 1901, has been engaged in facilitating the settlement of British farmers. This Board was replaced on October 1, 1907, by the new Land Board provided for in the Letters Patent, who held ofiice and administered the afi"airs of Land Settlement for 5 years from above date. Since October 1, 1901,
