Address by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government G. Beresford Stooke, Esq., C.M.G., to the Legislative Council, 2nd March, 1948.

Abstract

The Address by G. Beresford Stooke Esq., to the Legislative Council at the second session of the newly constituted council where he presented the first Nigerian budget to be compiled on a regional basis under the provisions of the new Constitution. it states that the estimates of the three regions amount to no less a sum than £7,110,570 whose appropriation is the concern of the Houses of Assembly.