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PART II - EXPLANATORY NOTES ON EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES
Estimate 1961/62
Revised estimate 1960/61
Approved estimate 1960/61
Actual expenditure 1959/60
GENERAL
$1,074,603,210
881,317,000
938,277,610
709,953,996
Actual expenditure 1958/59
589,958,367
The revised estimate of expenditure for 1960/61 is $57.0 millions less than the approved estimate. In arriving at this figure account has been taken of the supplementary provisions approved for unforeseen expenditure. The following summarizes the important amounts over and under the estimates on the various heads of expenditure:—
Head
Amount in $M
Under
Over
Agriculture and Forestry
0.7
Civil Aviation
1.7
Commerce and Industry
0.6
Co-operative Development and Fisheries
0.7
Registration of Persons
0.3
Miscellaneous Defence Measures
0.7
Education
3.1
Fire Brigade
1.9
Information Services
0.5
Marine
1.5
Medical and Health
5.5
Miscellaneous Services
4.0
New Territories
0.6
Pensions
5.9
Police Force
5.9
Post Office
0.8
Public Works Department
3.3
Public Works Recurrent
3.6
Public Works Non-Recurrent
35.7
Quartering
1.0
Resettlement
0.7
Stores
1.5
Social Welfare Subventions
0.3
Medical Subventions
1.0
Education Subventions
3.2
Miscellaneous Subventions
0.5
Urban Services
3.7
World Refugee Schemes
1.6
The expenditure estimates are presented in the same form as those for the preceding year, except that the definition of a composite subhead now inserted at paragraph 9 of the Notes on the Presentation of Salaries, etc., removes any doubt as to whether virement is possible between items of subheads where separate totals are not shown for such subheads (e.g. Public Works Non-Recurrent).