Head 13 KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY
Sub-heads
1 Personal emoluments
Other Charges
49
Approved Estimate 1952-53
Estimate 1953-54
$
CA
$
$
1,551,133
1,587,472
2 Advertising
3 Anti-malarial measures
4 Coal and fuel oil
5 Daily-rated staff
1,000 1,600 1,422,220
500 (17) 1,200 (17)
149,600
6 Fuel, light, and power
68,350
1,340,000 (18) 90,500 (19) 75,000 (20)
7 Incidental expenses
2,600
2,000 (17)
8 Lubricants
35,000
35,000
9 Maintenance of buildings
56,000
56,000
10 Maintenance of permanent way and structures
193,000
195,000
11 Maintenance of rolling stock
660,000
660,000
12 Maintenance of tunnels
10,000
10,000
13 Medical and sanitation expenses
2,000
15 Miscellaneous allowances
14 Minor works
16 Office equipment and furniture
17 Printing, stationery, and tickets 18 Publications
50,000
3,000 (20) 50,000
38,217
9,400 (14) (16)
(19)
6,500
6,000
11,800
11,000
1,000
1,000
19 Rent of quarters and offices
1,300
1,300
20 Stores and equipment
36,200
39,000 (20)
21 Subsistence allowances
9,200
8,000 (17)
22 Telegraphs and telephones
5,000
5,000
23 Tools and plant
20,000
20,000
24 Transport of stores and travelling expenses
1,750
1,500
25 Typhoon and rainstorm damage
10,000
10,000
26 Uniforms
23,000
18,000
27 Upkeep of vehicles.
6,000
6,000
28 Unallocated stores
Purchase, freight and other charges Deduct value of stores to be issued
3,010,000
3,000,000
10,000
10,000
Compensation
5,000
(21)
Total Other Charges
2,836,337
2,664,400
Special Expenditure
29 Relaying and renewal of permanent way
30 Wo Hop Shek cemetery scheme
720,000 1,000
520.000 (22)
31 Fencing for Shatin Station
32 Repairs to No. 1 cutting
34 Rolling stock
35 Additions to Lo Wu Station
33 Rewiring of offices and stations
53,116 (23)
30,000
28,000
16,000
Duplicating equipment
1,200 700
3,511,000 (24) 1,900 (23)
Foundry building
1,000
Quarters at Yaumati
77,000
Sleeper incising shed
5,000
Total Special Expenditure
805,900
5,193,370
4,160,016
8,411,888
Total Expenditure
(1) Previously non-pensionable
(2) 1 supernumerary post not required
(3) Provision for 1 post only
(4) 1 Senior Executive Officer Class II provided
for under Executive Grade Officers
(5) 1 Assistant Stores Officer in place of 1 Execu-
tive Grade Officer
(6) 1 Clerk, G.C.S. in place of 1 temporary Clerk (7) 1 Way & Works Overseer in place of 1
Permanent Way Sub-inspector
(8) Title changed from Draughtsman (9) Salary scale corrected
(10) 1 post not required
(11) Staff now itemised
(12) 1 post supernumerary to establishment of
Kowloon Canton Railway
(13) 4 posts previously provided for under Tem-
porary staff
(14) Chinese New Year bonuses previously pro-
vided for under Miscellaneous allowances
(15) Previously incorrectly described as Chinese
New Year bonuses
(16) Track gang bonuses previously provided for
under Miscellaneous allowances
(17) Previously overestimated (18) Decreased costs
(19) Staff reduced
(20) Increased costs
(21) Not required
(22) Final phase of programme (23) Revote
(24) Previously provided for in the schedule to the
Rehabilitation Loan
(25) 1 Assistant Engineering Surveyor Class II in place of 1 Assistant Lana Surveyor Class II