English Translation

103 4th sheet on the activity report of the Deputy Primator for the period from 1/8. to 30./9.1941. THE PRIMATOR-STELL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MAIN STATE PRAG. In the area of urban finance, there was still an effort to reduce the interest rates received at the time of the closing of the individual bonds according to the general German development and with regard to the liquidity of the money market. Dr. Heller, head of the tax office, has already secured considerable success for the city. Likewise freely available funds have been invested expeditiously. Among other things, 3 & % Reichsschatzanleihe was acquired for 18 million crowns. Certain clarifications with regard to profitability and financial management were given by the situation in the city's waste incineration plant, which in itself represents a high-quality, modern technical facility, but in the management set up by the Czechs it did not reveal the clarity which would have enabled a statement to be made as to the extent to which the operation of this plant is financially profitable. Everything has now been arranged for the waste incineration plant to be kept a modern accountancy system and for the three areas in which it is united to supply waste, power generation and form stone production to be separated from each other in a purely accounting manner. By the way, the doubts about the practicality of the production of form stone, which had recently emerged, have been dispelled by the statements of one of the best connoisseurs of the Reich Prof. Dr.Ing. Schönes from the Charlottenburg Technical University. He assured that the Prague slag provided the best conditions for the production of form stone, as in Prague for a waste incineration plant the most favourable local conditions exist, so that comparisons of the local conditions with those of other imperial cities are not easily possible. I myself have always taken the view that the production of Prague's moulded stone