ERRATA
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."