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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND MARCH, 1895.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 73.
The following Report on the Widows' and Orphans' Fund for the year 1894, which was laid before the Legislative Council on the 26th instant, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th February, 1895.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.
THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' FUND,
HONGKONG, 25th January, 1895.
SIR,--We have the honour to submit the following report on the Widows' and Orphans' -Fund
for the period from 1st January to 31st December, 1894.
A Statement of Accounts of the Fund to 31st December, 1894, is appended.
On 31st December, 1894, the Funds were disposed of as follows :---
On Fixed Deposit, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,
Current Account
Total,
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.$18,200.00 22.97
$18.222.97
The monthly contributions amount now to about $507.
During the period under review 53 Contributors joined the service and 45 left.
The Fund is now for the first time being drawn on for pension, $194.20 being claimed annually
by Mrs. BEAVIN, widow of an Officer late of the Public Works Department.
There are at present on the books 119 Compulsory Contributors.
Of these 119 Contributors, 41 are bachelors, 74 are married men, and 4 are widowers.
are 172 children on the books.
There
The average age of the three classes of Contributors (as far as it has been possible to calculate it) is as follows:-
Bachelors...... Married men, Widowers,
.30 years.
..A fraction under 37 years. ...........49 years and 3 months.
We have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servants,
N. G. MITCHELL-INNES, Chairman.
ARTHUR K. TRAVERS, T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
F. MACHADO,
J. G. DA ROCHA, Directors.
The Honourable J. H. STEWARt Lockhart,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT OF THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' FUND
FROM JULY, 1891, тo 31sT DECEMBER, 1894.
July to December, 1891, January to December, 1892, January to December, 1893,
January to December, 1894,
**
驸
RECEIPTS.
EXPENDITURE.
BALANCE.
843.96
......
8,346.87
6,557.24
6,890.37
621.46 480.78 3,313.23
843.96 7,725.41
6,076.46
3,577.14
22,638.44
* 4,415.47
18,222.97
.$3,384.53 918.75 112.19
Refunds of amounts erroneously levied,
Working Expenses,..
Pensions Paid,..
$4,415.47