ERRATA
Reading edition
Since this book went to press the Treasury has issued a revised version of Return No. 220, 1911 [Revenue and Expenditure (England, Scotland, and Ireland)], cancelling the Return issued in July, and correcting an error made in it. It now appears that the "true" Excise revenue attributable to Ireland from spirits in 1910-11 (with deductions made by the Treasury from the sum actually collected in Ireland) should be £3,575,000, instead of £3,734,000, and that the total "true" Irish revenue in that year was, therefore, £11,506,500, instead of £11,665,500. In other words, Irish revenue for 1910-11 was over-estimated in the Return now cancelled by £159,000.
The error does not affect the Author's argument as expounded in Chapters XII. and XIII.; but it necessitates the correction of a number of figures given by him, especially in Chapter XII., the principal change being that the deficit in Irish revenue, as calculated on the mean of the two years 1909-10 and 1910-11, should actually be £1,392,000, instead of £1,312,500.
The full list of corrections is as follows:
Page 259, line 9, for "£1,312,500," read "£1,392,000."
Page 260, table, third column, line 6, for "£10,032,000," read "£9,952 500"; last line, for "£1,312,500," read "£1,392,000."
Page 261, table, last column, last line but one, for "£321,000," read "£162,000"; last line (total), for "£329,780,970," read "£329,621,970."
Page 262, line 7, for "£10,032,000," read "£9,952,500"; line 10, for "£1,312,500," read "£1,392,000."
Page 275. table, last column, line 2, for "£3,734,000," read "£3,575,000"; line 7, for "£10,371,000," read "£10,212,000"; line 14, for "£11,665,500," read, "£11,506,500"; in text, last line but one of page, for "£10,032,000," read "£9,952,500."
Page 276, line 5, for "£500,000," read, "£340,000"; table, last column, line 2, for "£3,316,000," read "£3,236,500"; line 3, for "£6,182,000," read "£6,102,500"; line 9, for "£8,737,500," read "£8,658,000"; last line, for "£10,032,000," read "£9,952,500."
Page 277, line 2, for "£1,672,500," read "£1,752,000"; line 7, for "£1,312,500," read "£1,392,000"; line 8, for "£10,032,000," read "£9,952,500"; line 12, for "£1,672,500," read "£1,752,000"; footnote, line 1, for "£1,793,000," read "£1,952,000."
Page 279, line 8, for "70.75," read "70.48."
Page 282, sixth line from bottom, for "£1,312,500," read "£1,392,000."
Page 246, line 8 and footnote, and page 295, lines 21-31: A temporary measure has been passed (Surplus Revenue Act, 1910), under which the Surplus Commonwealth Revenue is returned to the States on a basis of £1 5s. per head of the population of each State.
Page 288, line 2, omit "like the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands." These islands have distinct local tariffs, but they cannot be said to be wholly under local control.