Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 148

of which £27,982 4s. 7d. for the Department of Agricultural Colonisation and the Agricultural Experiment Station, £13,730 14s. 9d. for Educational Purposes, £16,598 15s. 5d. for the Immigration Department and £9,605 3s. Od. for the Labour Department, mainly for buildings, barracks and tents for workers in the colonies. The balance went for various budget items. The total income of the Palestine Executive for the first half-year 5695 amounted to £75,234 12s. lid., of which £39,778 5s. 7d. were received from the Keren Hayesod for the regular budget, £1,325 for payments outside the regular budget and a further amount of £8,554 12s. 7d. representing Keren Hayesod income from investments in Land Companies. The last-mentioned figure is made up of £6,000, the Executive's contribution towards the acquisition of the Huleh Concession, and £2,554 12s. 7d. for the erection of buildings in settlements and for the housing of immigrants. The income of the Immigration Department during the first half-year 5695 amounted to £14,642 7s. 2d. - and the Executive received from the Government £5,109 during that period, of which £4,949 for the Agricultural Experiment Station and £160 as a further contribution for the Central Emek Hospital. The balance derives mainly from repayments of loans formerly granted out of Keren Hayesod funds. Out of the loan granted by Lloyds Bank, of which details are given in another place, Head Office remitted to the Palestine Executive during the first half-year 5695 £227,215 2s. 6d. for the payment of commitments and bills dating from former years. Payments to the Palestine Executive for Special Purposes. Under this head £859 9s. 2d. and £2,626 4s. 5d., together £3,485 13s. 7d., were paid to the Palestine Executive in the course of the past two years. This sum was made up as follows : £ s. d For the settlement of two families (this amount from Portugal was received partly in the past, and partly in the present report period) ..................... 575 0 0 For sinking a well in Beth Shaarim (from Jugoslavia) ... 500 0 0 For buildings in Beer Tuviah for German immigrants (from Sweden) ........................ 500 0 0 For settlement in Kfar Hittin (from Jugoslavia and .Egypt) ... 442 4 5 For the Agricultural Experiment Station (from Eretz Israel) ... 80 0 0 Equivalent of the inventory of Kfar Yeladim distributed among various settlements (from South Africa) ...... 583 17 0 For a building in Mishmar Haemek (from' South Africa) ... 300 0 0 For the Agricultural Experiment Station in Rehovoth (the money was received from Portugal in the former report period) ... ... ............... ... 300 0 0 For building a cistern in Kiryath Shaoul (from Jugoslavia) ... 39 12 1 For building a Kindergarten in Nahalal (from Dublin, received during the previous report period) ............ 15 0 0 Head Office contribution, through the Jewish Agency, to the second Maccabiah (out of general income) ......... 150 0 0 Total £3,485 13 7 l48