THE HONG KUNG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 18, 1938.
DITURE FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31ST JANUARY, 1938.
Estimates
Heads of Expenditure.
1938.
Expenditure from 1st to 31st January, 1938.
Expenditure for same period of preceding
year.
C.
C.
H. E. the Governor
181,897
14,020.13
12,864.60
Colonial Secretary's Office
Secretariat
and Legislature
for
308,038
21,802.02
23,128.29
Chinese
Affairs
146,094
10,306.48
11,693.46
Treasury
322,901
25,382.88
21.889.78
Audit Department
125,443
10,067.17
9,915.18
District Office, North
75,788
6,828.68
7,630.69
Do.,
South
53,506
3,707.55
3,503.63
Communications:
(a) Post Office
820,546
68,253.02
54,401.47
(b) Radio Traffic Office..
183,065
13,688.69
(c) Wireless
279,920
16,49101
13,404.11
Imports
and
Exports
Office
496,314
34,887.31
34,824.04
(a) Harbour Department
1,314,654
58,122.70
62,395.71
(b) Air Service
120,271
4,188.55
3,093,32
Royal Observatory
94,003
6,876.45
7,131.12
Fire Brigade...
378,786
18,830.56
45,864.31
Supreme Court....
237,906
18,816.76
18,326.64
Attorney General's Office..
88,043
6,998,99
6,249.62
Crown Solicitor's Office
66,945
5,218.66
3,985.29
Official Receiver's Office...
25,849
2,609.07
2,300.01
Land Office
74,011
6,367.50
5,039.66
Magistracy, Hong Kong...
74,380
7,749.79
5,718.13
Do., Kowloon
51,457
6,352.21
3,846.24
Police Force
3,307,395
237,790.26
244,504.71
Prisons Department..
983,622
80,500.26
67,204.22
Medical Department
2,177,835
147,935.02
137,009.16
Sanitary Department
1,123,136
76,386.74
78,128.41
Botanical and
Forestry
Department
139,579
9.004.41
7,122.24
Education Department
2,276,736
149,549.79
131,466.40
Kowloon-Canton Railway..
832,346
$1,097.77
55,645.57
Defence:-
(a) Volunteer Defence
Corps
161,932
11,403.68
5,702.51
(b) Naval
Volunteer
Force
49,164
3,005.34
3,318.05
(c) Military
Contribu-
tion
5,680,578
435,482.58
417,319.58
(d) Air Raid Precau-
tions
50,000
Miscellaneous Services
1,752,435
481.90 339,088.67
240,068.05
Charitable Services ..
214,774
143,185.32
7,425.55
Charge on Account of
Public Debt
Pensions
Public Works Department.
Do., Recurrent............
1,351,631
215,600.00
225,400.00 2,500,000
277,680.13 200,558.59 2,871,510 170,049.37 184,081.00 1,600,200 45,322.07 22,531.32
32,101,699 2,791,193.49
2,390,850.66
Do., Extraordinary. 1,277,850
26,105.62
36,348.41
TOTAL.....
€
33,379,549 2,817,299.11 2,427,199.07
163
TREASURY.
Actual Expenditure
to
1938.
Expenditure
for same period of preceding
year.
D. KELVIN-STARK,
Accountant-General.
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