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Ad I {a)} 2. — By a loan obtained from the City Savings Bank of Novi Sad,
amounting to 7,000,000 dinars.
Ad I [a), 3. — By the allocation of the yield of the water rates among the mem¬
bers of the association.
Ad I [b], 2. — By a loan from the privileged Agricultural Bank, amounting at the
end of the year 1933 to 11,487,864.08 dinars.
Ad I {b), 4. — By a State subsidy of 452,316.49 dinars and a subsidy from the
banates of 225,438-7° dinars, and by the allocation of the yield of the water rates
among the members of the association.
Ad I (b), 5. — By loans from the First Croat Savings Bank of 10,000,000 dinars,
from the privileged Agricultural Bank of 2,500,000 dinars, by the allocation of the
yield of the water rates and by the Jugoslovenksi Ganz Company.
Public Works carried out in connection with Colonisation at the Expense
of the Special Colonisation Fund of the Ministry.
Dinars
I.— 1. Juzno-pecski Canal for the irrigation of the Metohija. . . 3,550,000
2. Erecki Canal for the irrigation of the Metohija 1,750,000
3. Ovce-poljski water conduit 682,000
4. Conservancy work on the Karasica waterway (D.Miholjac
district) 250,000
5. Reclamation works in the banate (Novi Sad) 500,000
6. Livanjsko Polje reclamations (Split) 100,000
7. Reclamation works in the Nerodimski (Rasica) district . . 30,000
8. Repairs to the protection dyke near Batka (Senta) . . . 25,000
Total 6,887,000
All these works are to be carried out under the system of direct administration
and by the labour of the colonists concerned.
The works mentioned under 1 to 3 have been completed, and those under 4 to 8
were begun this year.
In addition, the following credits with a view to reclamation works have been
granted to the syndicated hydraulic associations whose areas contain land suitable for
agriculture :
Dinars
9. To the syndicated hydraulic association for the recla¬
mation of the Skopsko Polje 360,000
10. To the syndicated hydraulic association for the recla¬
mation of the Gor. Lisicje 500,000
11. To the syndicated hydraulic association for the recla¬
mation of the Aranka, Velika, Kikinda 100,000
Total 960,000
II. — The sum spent on the construction of wells and water conduits in fifteen
agricultural colonies amounts to 736,000 dinars.
III. — Construction of schools and educational centres in twenty-two agricultural
colonies, 809,000 dinars.
IV. — Construction of churches in thirteen colonies, 717,000 dinars.