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OFFICIAL EXPLANATIONS
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a vote will be required for $6,900 in order to meet expenditure to the end of the current year.
Expenditure under this sub-head for the first eight months of this year shows an increase over the corresponding period of 1928 ΟΙ 2209, of which more than half re- presents the increased commission earned by Crown Agents in collect- At to-day's meeting of the ing larger amounts of interest and Finance Committee of the Legisia- dividends which have accrued on tive Council, the following supple- the Colony's increased sterling in- mental votes on the 1929 Estimates vestments in London. The remain- will be considered.
der is due to commission on - Rent heavier purchases of stores, etc. Officers, and equipment.
Miscellaneous Services Allowances - Senior $17,000.
Provision made. $95,000.
The fall in exchange will also
in Estimates, cause an independent automatic in-
crease.
The increasing number of Miscellaneous Services:--36, Or- married officers
service dinances, Regulations and Reports, in the insufficient number of $700.
have caus- demand on was anti-
and the
quarters
ed
*
available heavier
this vote than
Provision made in Estimates, $5,000,
A sum of $5,000 is provided in cipated. A further sum of $17,000 the Estimates for the printing of is considered necessary to complete Ordinances, Regulations and Re- the current year. The allowances ports.
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(1) Part of the cost for furnish- ing No. 463 the Peak which was converted into quarters for the Nursing Staff had to be charged to this vote and cost $860.
(2) When a atenographer was appointed at the beginning of the year to assist the Visiting Medical Officer for Chinese Hospitals and Dis- pensaries typing table, chair, cupboard and book had to be obtained which cost $180.
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(3) The office for the Visiting Medical Officer for Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries has recently been removed from the Fire Station Build- ing to the Post Office Build- ing and office furniture, viz.:
Of this sum $4,240 had been ex- are paid in accordance with the re- gulations laid down in the General pended by 31st October and it is Orders of the Government.
estimated that further charges for tended
3 desks, chairs, etc. had to be ordered for the office staff as the old furniture which was used by them in the Fira: Station Building is required by the Honourable Secretary for Chinese Affairs for use of his office staff.
The furniture vote which is in- for upkeep of hospital
Expenditure to October 31 printing during November and De-furniture and crockery could not amounted to $91,216 and it is cember will amount to approximate-bear all this expenditure without
the aid of a supplementary vote. estimated that approximately $9,400 ly $1,400.
will be required for November and The volume of publications re The above is to be met from sav- $11,300 for December making the quired under this subhead has Ings under Maintenance of Luna- total Expenditure for the year apbeen in excess of the amount tics, etc. (1929 Estimates page 45 proximately $112,000.
$16,000 has been provided for by Special Warrant No. 245.
Miscellaneous Services: Ex change Compensation Allowance, $78,000.
Provision $350,000.
made in Estimates,
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Pablic Works Department: Other Charges, Special Expendi- ture, Rent for areas on Praya East Reclamation, $3,780.
estimated and a further vote for sub-head 18). $700 is requested to meet expendi- ture to the end of the year.
Miscellaneous Services: Pur. chase and Upkeep of Typewriters and Calculating Machines, $600.
Provision made in Estimates, $9,000.
The Government Waterworks many Workshops have stood for years on land that has now become part of the Praya East Reclamation Scheme.
The Workshops are being moved to another site and participants of the areas concern-
re- the
ed have agreed to allow Govern-
The vote for the year
This vote was called upon to bear estimated at the exchange rate of the cost of A Duplicator ($630) 2. For the purposes of exchange urgently required for the Colonial compensation the rate fell to 1/1194 Secretary's Office and in conse in March and April, 1/11% in May, quence will not auffice for normal 1/11 in June, 1/114 in July, requirements. August and September, 1/10% in A supplementary vote of 8600 lament to remain in possession until October and 1/8 in November. requested.
the 28th February, 1990, when the Harbour By October 31 expenditure had
Department: Special new building will be ready for oc- reached $334,034, leaving a balance Expenditure, Training expenses of cupation. It had been hoped that of $15,966.
Government Marine Surveyors in it would have been possible to Owing to the recent further fall England, Expenses of Assistant vacate the areas before rent be- in exchange the amount required Government Marine Surveyers in came payable, but this hope was under the sliding scale authorised connection with B.O.T. Training, not realised. in General Orders is considerably $5,058.
more than this balance. A further Provision made in Estimates $ 7,200 sum of $78,000 is necessary to meet Provision made by Supple- allowances payable to the end of
the year at an estimated exchange
of less than 18. 10d.
mentary Vote
A vote is requested to meet the rental until the end of this year..
A vote for the sum necessary next. 11,582 year will be applied for in January. The amount now required is made Total
$18,782 up as follows:- Estimated Travelling Expenses Inland Lot 2813 Rental $300 and Subsistence Allowance for per month from 1.4.29 ta
31.12.29 Services:-Rent Assistant Government Marine Sur- AllowancesAsiatic Subordinate veyors training in United King Inland Lot 2814 part only Officers, $12,000.
Rental $120 per month from 1.4.29 to 31.12.29
$72,000 has been provided for by Special Warrant No. 245.
Miscellaneous
Provision made in Estimates, $76,000.
dum.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19,,
WITH ALL THE PEP
of a Jazz Band.
All the Poise
of a
Drum Major
The Assurance
of a
Radio Announcer.
The Attention that
a Manipulator Caught Short in the Market
Gives the Ticker
The Perseverance and Optimism of an Ancient Pedant learning to Play Ping Pong
1929.
$2,700
•
1,080
$3,780
and the Pride with which a
Bride Ties, Her New Hubby's
Tie.
Total Public Works, Extraordinary:——
Previous Estimates were based on 12 months course for Officers Asiatic Subordinate Officers are mentioned in Finance Message No. entitled to rent tenements and re- 5 Item No. 30 of 1929. Instead of ceive rent allowances under the 12 monthe only the undermention-Furniture: to meet expenditure to conditions of General Order 110A. cd officers have been charged for the end of the year, $4,500.
Owing to the growing tendency by Crown Agents as follows:-
to tuke full advantage
of these Mr. Sprague. privileges, and to the increased number of officers qualifying by length of service for these' allow-i ances, the expenditure on this, sub- head has increased. In every case the allowance granted is within the limits prescribed.
The expenditure to end of 'Octo ber was $71,547 and the amount re- quired for November and December will be approximately $16,000.
A further sum of $12,000 is re quired.
The above has been provided for by Special Warrant No. 245.
Miscellaneous Services:Rent Allowances-European Subordinate
Officers, $6,000,
Provision made In Estimates, $40,000.
New appointments have been made this year for which provision had not been made in the Rent Al-
12 months from 1.8.28. No advice has been received of course ending to allow ance must be estimated up to end of November, 1929, (December account la paid from following year's Vote)-August to November at £40 ..... £160. Mr. Stiff. Charged by Crown Agents 18 months Excess Estimate 12 months at £40
over
Mr. Hunter. Charged by Crown Agents for 11% months, from 7.8.28 to 81.7.29. Advice received that Officer sailed from United Kingdom on 28.9.29 50 allowance must be made for 1 months at £40
lowance vote, and the insufficiency Mr. Swan. Was not allow
|of Government quarters has caused more married officers to draw rent allowance.
Expenditure to end of October is $37,668. "The figures for September | and October are $4,284 and $4,014 respectively and taking these as a guide for November and December) expenditure the total for the year will be approximately $45,983.
The Estimates provide only $40,000 which is approximately $6,000 below requiremonta.
ed for when Estimate was prepared for Finance Message No. 5, Item 80 of 1929 as it was not known until 7th
May,, 1929, that he was drawing course allow- апсе. Crown Agenta have charged January- July
60.
$0.
Provision made in Estimates, $20,000.
The sum of $20,000 was provided. for this service in the Estimates but owing to the shortage of Gov- ernment Quarters necessitating: provision of extra furniture, and the additional expenditure to pro- vide furniture for 6 Cadet Officers, this sum has been found to be in- sufficient. A supplementary vote of $4,500 is requested which can be met from savings as shown below. The above is to be met from savings under "Government Offices -Additional Storey",
Miscellaneous Services:- Gov- ernment Gazette, $1,000.
Provision made in Estimates, $4,800,
The Gazette for the current year la more voluminous than in 'pre- vious years and a further vote for $1,000 will be necessary to cover expenditure to the end of the year.
Up to November 22. the number; of rages in the Gazette and Supple- ment totalled 1686 as against 1406 for the corresponding period of 1928. The printers charges are $3.60 per page.
Twenty Ordinances were publish-| ed in 1928 as against over thirty: in the current year and the recently adopted practice of gazetting the|| 204.18, acceptance of tenders has contri- buted to the increased volume of 4484.18.this publication.. £484.13.0 in excess over the Police Force:-25 Rewards, $200.
Total
A further sum of $6,000 is re-Estimates and this amount is now, Provision made in Estimates $1,200 quired to meet requirements to the required to cover the actual and Provision made by Supplo end of the year.
The above has been provided for by Special Warrant No. 245.
Miscellaneous ... - Sörvices:---Lan- gunge Study Allowances, 4,000.
estimated expenditure for the re- mainder of the year. £484.13.0 at Exchange 1/11-36,067.22.
mentary vote
Total
500
$1,700
The above is to be met from The amount payable for rewards Bavings under Stores and Equip-for special services has been ** Provision ~made In Estimates, ment for Lighthouses (1929 larger than usual this year and the
$24,000.
|Estimates, page 26 sub-head 13). vote is now exhausted. There has The increase In the number of Police Force: Burial of Desti- bees an unusually large number of officers in the service who have tute Dead, $150.
detections of returned banishees. undertaken to study. Chinese has Provision made in Estimates, A further sum of $200 is asked for Įdarked greatër” demands. on this 3800. T
to cover expenditure to the end of vote than were anticipated. The The amount provided in the 1929 the year, M |expenditure has gradually increas Estimates has been expended. The above is to be met from
ed from 42,080 in January to 32,560 Owing to recent heavy charges on savings under Beoret Service, y In October. In the Police Depart this vote it will be necessary to Medical Department: Bacterio ment alone the number of; ombers supplement, the vote to cover ex-logical Institute, Animals, and studying has Increased from 87 to penditure to the end of the year. Fodder, $500,
†81. It is estimated that a further. A vote for $150 is therefore re-. Provision made in Estimate
vote for $4,000 will be require to guested.
$4,500.
Méet expenditure for the curteat The above Is to be met from The åtock of calf lymph has bức
Steen Bavings under Petrol Oll
*The above has been provided for Police Motor Cark and
by Special Warrant No. 245,- per Medical Departmen
for exhausted as two vaccination 10 paigns have been carried out iture verry" also another one, is Blated: hex) year. : As ties of call lymph and "these campalghe had to he bought for
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