Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 27, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba G Fyffee it Schroeder pleased province spends million less than predicted by Muff a Mcneill the provincial Tove fitment spent of Lillion less Tow Fol it expected during first three months of the current fiscal according to the Golem tents it quarterly financial report for april 1 and june government expenditures totalled finance minister Vic Schroeder had estimated when he tabled his budget in february that the government would spend during the first three Schroeder said in an interview yesterday he was pleased with the re but cautioned against Reading too much into i put too much Stock in that be cause sometimes when you project your spend ing Over the period of a year your actual payouts come possibly a Little than you the million that want paid out during the first Quarter May show up As expenditures in the next quarterly re he while its still too Early to Tell whether the government May have to revise its earlier projection of a deficit for the Schroeder i think theres a relatively decent Chance we can come in or even the original projected num that despite the oppositions dire predictions in february that the deficit this year will soar to he opposition finance critic Brian Ransom Mountain was on vacation yesterday and could not be reached for opposition Leader Sterling Lyon was also out of the City and unavailable for the quarterly report indicates the total revenues for the first three months also were slightly lower than because of a shortfall in revenues from Federal revenues from the Federal government totalled while the expected to receive k the main shortfalls in the area of Federal Transfer payments to education costs instead of the projected million and cos sharing payments for Community services and corrections programs million instead of i higher provincial tax revenues on the other revenues from provincial taxes were million higher than and reve Nues from other provincial sources were about higher than Schroeder said he was not concerned about the shortfall in revenues from the Federal As is the Case with revenues that dont come in during the first Quarter often arrive during the second or third so it usually balances out in the he Over the course of the full year the government has budgeted to spend a total of and receive a total of billion in although expenditures for the first three months of the year were less than they were about million More than during the first Quarter of last revenues were about million last years deficit was million about million higher than projected at the beginning of the ministers freeze their salaries in symbolic move by Murray Mcneill Premier Howard Pawley and his Cabinet ministers have voted to freeze their salaries for a second year in a Row to set an example for other in a news release issued yesterday by his Pawley said the freeze also was in keeping with austerity measures outlined in last february he noted that the salary for All Las was recently increased by to a yearly which is based on the increase in the Cost of living and other such is provided under provincial he Good example because they wanted to set a Good Pawley and his ministers decided to offset the automatic increase in their Las salary by voting themselves a reduction in their Cabinet minis ters so in effect they voted themselves a Zero percent increase for the Cabinet ministers receive an extra a year on top of their salaries As while the Premier receives an additional Pawley is on vacation and could not be reached yesterday for further his press Garth admitted in a later interview that the move May not seem that significant when one considers that Cabinet minis ters make in excess of a certainly no attempt to flog this As a High profile he limit increases he that Cabinet members Felt it was an important symbolic gesture in View of the governments philosophy of also limiting the salary increases of higher paid civil its also a signal that we Are cognizant and aware that we have to at the whole area of expenditures of Public housing minister Jerry one of the few Cabinet ministers who wis Avail we for said he fully supported the while admitting the move was in Many respects a Token he Here were Many Manitoban who have to bite the bul like everyone Cabinet ministers also have to face increased living but like everyone else they also have to make some its a 1 to everyone that you should not continue to expect the kinds of the kinds of things we have enjoyed in the he Dominion stores limited All 10 bag Robin Hood flour fresh Frozen 10 Box Only Back Bone whole Chicken legs 18 Mary soon sliced Side Bacon 98 454 g skinless wieners fully Black Forest Ham halves Frozen 500 Harvest sausages 1 99 Mary in cry vac cooked pork shoulder smoked picnics 87 375 g sliced Bologna 1 39 Black 250 g proc mid comm room cheese slices 1j 78 nature 275 Honey Peanut Roa Tad Almond Granola bars 1 79 750 g Peanut butter 21 99 beam in Tomato sauce or pork and Beans 15 450 g Peanut butter Oatmeal dads biscuits savings from the Deli 282 g g Wertti Fritz Corn available a stores with Dell counters Only 369ml the piece Golden with herbs liver sausage sliced or shaved your onion or Fine meat loaf cooked corned beef Mary for your any Eniece cooked Ham sliced or shaved for you Mary Miles Bologna Mary by the piece Polit i Coil garlic sausage Spray Pott g sugar or Ltd or 450 g Alpha its quench crystals White campfire marshmallows it Fife High 350 g Boito Blue Fiji in Patter 750 it Dominion Mustard 500 Sweet Mil or Yum Yum wafer Bicks pickles 88 Hitte Tomato Ketchup 58 750 Tab sugar free regular or diet coca cola Derosa Del 508 malted milk mini i puddings Dominion luxury log food Kal 170 areas red cat focal Ojo garbage sgt liquid detergent 985 g Frozen Stouffer lasagna it Fly first in Blue fillets 700 fish Sticks 510 g 538 Mccain ;