6
EXPENDITURE
Abstract of actual and estimated expenditure for the period 1948 to 1952
HEAD OF EXPENDITURE.
Actual Expenditure
1948-49
Actual
Expenditure
1949-50
Approved
Estimate
1950-51
Approved Estimate for 1951-52
1 H.E. the Governor
212,680
244,982
230,285
226,925
2 Agriculture, Fisheries, and
Forestry Department
357,814
523,905
813,135
1,834,967
3 Audit Department
247,528
212,769
247,023
283,487
4 Civil Aviation Department
566,641
773,392
1,136,379
832,508
5 Colonial Development and Welfare
Schemes
219,435
1,044,103
570,700
586,350
6 Colonial Secretariat and Legis-
lature
954,861
1,201,938
1,177,833
1,181,580
7 Commerce and Industry Depart-
ment
1,037,651
1,154,711
1,236,167
1,909,785
8 Custodian of Property
57,993
9 Education Department
11,703,081
41,339 4,476,141
42,156 5,443,781
29,356
5,498,936
10 Essential Services Corps
A Essential Services Corps. B-Civil Defence Planning
185,851
81,039
Office
71,856
11 Fire Brigade
947,603
1,115,202
1,382,027
2,419,586
12 Hong Kong Defence Force
A-Hong Kong Regiment
620,392
3,739,285
1,049,316
1,234,507
B-Hong Kong Naval Force.
47,267
88,996
568,567
589,807
C-Hong Kong Auxiliary Air
Force
33,607
123,400
177,940
13 Inland Revenue Department
593,096
731,308
889,555
891,172
14 Kowloon Canton Railway
4,361,198
5,021,703
5,007,031
5,751,958
15 Labour Department
16 Legal Department
236, 845
233,633
291,119
328,962
524,189
364,283
657,443
563,240
17 Magistracies
A-Hong Kong Magistracy.....
116,389
128,542
135,798
140,507
B-Kowloon Magistracy
104,987
106,173
114,509
124,510
18 Marine Department
4,275,932
3,972,852
6,169,258
11,829,815
19 Medical Department
12,924,505
11,675,099
12,668,351
14,007,254
20 Miscellaneous Services
57,386,656
38,234,810
37,521,500
50,079,856
21 New Territories, District Ad-
ministration
365,267
367,938
383,208
398,066
22 Pensions
6,499,716
7,347,902
7,870,000
8,585,000
23 Police Force
10,715,689
12,806,353
15,553.762
16,916,776
24 Post Office
2,932,582
3,518,003
4,195,644
6,831,153
25 Prisons Department
3,030,449
3,360,026
4,268,341
4,208,575
26 Public Debt
4,009,900
8,989,385
5,084,631
3,863,556
27 Public Relation Office
A-Public Relations Office B--Broadcasting
72,494
113,900
192,042
210,024
242,614
276,695
422,833
437,206
28 Public Works Department
3,643,255
3,976,808
5,434,368
7,368,892
29 Public Works Recurrent
9,747,900
12,974,374
16,633,000
15,205,000
30 Public Works Non-Recurrent
2,604,141
17,625,355
29,184,563
34,226,437
31 Quartering Authority
204,199
175,586
32 Rating and Valuation Department.
161,644
177,034
212,259
193,042
33 Registrar General's Department...
183,601
196,351
183,283
34 Royal Observatory
291,386
347,445
415,046
518,753
35 Sanitary Department and Urban
Council
4,313,058
5,040,596
7,444,297
6,853,816
36 Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
A-Secretariat for Chinese
Affairs
172,759
207,981
187,031
191,020
B-Social Welfare Office C-District Watch Force
1,005,033
809,930
756,341
3,135,931
183,343
169,774
168,131
159,101
37 Statistical Department
A--Statistical Department B-Registration Branch
114,606
121,899
131,707
138,085
575,215
297,560
161,983
38 Stores Department
7,874,312
9,826,119
5,564,002
5,382,735
39 Subventions
878,547
13,861,005
14,326,900
17,144,498
40 Supreme Court
329,041
399,208
41 Treasury
726,224
765,526
448,103 801,347
473,361
842,973
42 Co-operatives and Marketing
A-Cooperatives Department.
67,761
B-Marketing Department
67,834
79,322
125,534
Vegetable Marketing Organization.
60,138
76,225
Fisheries Department
62,602
94,174
106,641
Forestry Department
483,086
397,736
410,230
Gardens Department
413,949
297,486
341,487
Supplies and Distribution Depart-
Department
731,968
840,750
832,349
Telecommunications
784,289
1,402,760
955,979
Development Secretariat
A-Directorate
48,493
B-Fisheries Research Station.
19,133
Total
159,954,023
182,121,723❘ 200,839,083
234,669,050