15. As noEed in Ehe report of Ehe Working GrouP |A/4O/2O?', ' the Agency feced 1985 t itb the Prospecl of cash incone falling ahort of cash exPenditures by sone $5? niUion. As a first sEeP Eo bridge tbis gaP, the Comnisslone r-Gene ral had instituted a number ot ausfe;ity neasures, Principally lhe defernent of expenditures on sEatt salary increases and on Daintenance and nee con6tcuction' which bad Ehe effect ot reclircing buatge teal exPenditure by $40 million and reducing the shorEfall to $27 million. t6. The secre tary-crene ral and the ooorBigsione r -General baal then launched an appeal for additional contributions. Their appeal eas actively suPpor ted by f,he Horking Group on the Financing of UNRWA and th€ UNRWA Advtsory Com$lasion' L7. The Gover Ent ot ,JaPan increaaed its 1985 contribuEion by $500'000' Other GoverNnents, inctudinq lottria, Burkina Faso' caneroon' Finland' Ireland' Maldives' uauritius, llonaco, Norsay, s{eden, Tunlsia and Turkey' also pledged nert or increa3ed conEributions io the aqency for 1985. A comPlece IisE of all c.ontributions pletlged so far in 1985 19 conlained in an annex to Ehe report of Ehe Connissioner-Gene ral to Ebe G€neral Assenbly at its fortieEh session' 18. rn the Period since March 1985, esEinated lncottF had increased by some $I3 rnillion as a reault of the follosing additlonal contributlons pledged in response bo the aPPea l: Aus lral ia Canada tlenlnarl( Finland NornaY St'eden UniEed sEates of Arner ica(in United State8 dollars) 260 000 2 200 000 451 000 1?0 000 56 2 000 I l?0 000 I 000 000 The shortfall was thus reduced fron S2? Dillion to S14 niLlion' 19. on che exPenditure side, Ehere had been boEh increases and decreaaes' resulting in a net decreaae of $9 nillion. B6tinaEed exPenditure had increaEed by $2 niltion because of the need to fund a portion of tbe suPpLenenlary feedlng