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Head 27.-DEFENCE
Head 27.-DEFENCE
A.-VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
1 Personal Emoluments
Other Charges.
Approved Estimate, 1936.
Estimate, 1937.
€A
€
69
$
34,985
41,159
2 Allowances for Officers and N.C.Os. undergoing Training in
England
750
3 Ammunition
10,428
1,000 11,645
(1)
(1) (2)
4 Armoured Car and Motor Machine Gun Section
2,670
2,670
5 Band allowances....
100
100
6 Books, Stationery, and Printing
800
800
7 Camp Expenses
15,400
15,400
8 Conveyance Allowance to Corps Quartermaster
180
180
9 Equipment for the Engineer Company and Signals-Overhaul
optical instruments.
450
785
(3)
10 Equipment, Air Arm......
260
260
11 Equipment and Upkeep of Arms.
3,000
3,000
12 Fuel and Light
1,100
1,100
13 Grant to Machine Gun Troop
10,800
7,200
(4)
14 Incidental Expenses
600
600
15 Improvements to Camp....
1,000
(5)
16 Repairs to Causeway Bay Stable..
450
(5)
17 Rifle Ranges, Expenses..
1,200
1,200
18 Subsidy to Air Arm
30,000
30,000
19 Training Expenses for Nursing Detachment H.K.V.D.C. 20 Transport
400
1,400
(6)
3,200
3,800 (7)
21 Uniform, including Boots
15,919
15,920
22 Uniform for Messengers and Coolies
350
300
(4)
Total Other Charges
97,607
98,810
Special Expenditure.
23 Night Glasses, 6 Pairs
1,090
1,440
(1) (8)
24 2 Motor Cycle Combinations
3,072
2,720
(9)
25 Anti-gas Equipment
4,368
2,304
(8)
26 Steel Helmets.....
2,508
816 (8)
27 S. M. L. E. Rifles
2,160
4,000 (10)
28 100 sets equipment
29 Mechanisation of Machine Gun Troop
3,520 (11) 3,600
(12)
3 Slide Rules (M.G.) and Cases
44
Clinometers
372
2 Night Firing Boxes, Machine Gun
180
> (13)
Mobilization Equipment
403
Equipment for M.G. Bu., Signals
2,840
Improvements to Camp...
Repairs to Causeway Bay Stables
1,500 450
(14) (14)
Total Special Expenditure
Total Volunteer Defence Corps..
18,977
18,400
151,569
(158,369
(1) Lower rate of exchange.
(2) Reduction in price.
(3) Considered necessary for overhaul of optical in-
struments.
(4) Considered sufficient.
(5) Provided under Special Expenditure in 1936.
(6) Hospital training added.
(7) Annual combined manoeuvres.
(8) Final instalment.
(9) Replacements.
(10) More rifles required.
(11) Increase in strength.
(12) Considered necessary.
(13) Non-recurrent.
(14) Transferred to Other Charges.