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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1930.
THE BUDGET FOR 1931 INTRODUCED.
DEFICIT OF TWENTY-THREE LAKHS.
COLONIAL SECRETARY ON GRAVITY OF FINANCIAL SITUATION:
DRASTIC CUTS IN PUBLIC WORKS.
In a speech lasting almost an hour, the Hon. Colonial Seurotary yesterday introduced the Budget for the year 1931 asking for a aum of 823,305,338, In the course of his speech the Colonial Secretary said that the Budget was soriously influenced by three main considerations-the fall in exchange, the revised salaries, and the Retrenchmont Commission.
The estimated expenditure for the coming year was placed at 829,787,855 and estimated revenue at 927,488,759, which would show a deficit of 82,208,000.
The Colonial Secretary indicated that drastic reductions had been made in the estimates in connection with Public Works. He drew attention to the gravity of the financial situation, but at the same time added that he felt that a revival of better conditions within mensurable time was inevitable. It was indicated that assessment rates would be increased by four per cont. In this connection, it was pointed out that the Colony was still one of the lightest taxed places in the world.
INCREASE IN ASSESSMENT RATES.
In introducing the Budget, Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, C.B.E., C.M.G.; Colonial Secretary, said:
Sir-rise by Your Excellency's command to move the first rending of a Bill intituled.An Ordinance to apply sum not preceding twenty-three million three hundred
Retrenchment Committee,
KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL
In Lots of not Note Reduction in Prices.
less than an
Delivered to Peak District (above Bowen Road), $28.00
por fon
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$19.00 per ton.
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Head 11.-Post Oflee. The consid. erable increase in transit charges of 840,000 is due to the new inter national rates of carriage of minils, and to the depreciation of the dollar. The new postage rates are an offset to this, hat I can. Laure Hon. Members that they are getting their money's worth and more every time they post a letter to England vid Siberin.
Head 20.-Sanitary Department. Here it has been impossible to maintain litorally the 1030 basis. Engineers and attendants are neces- sory for new bath houses, drivers for now motor vehicles and steers- men ond bargemen for now refunc
barges Hon. Members are already.
included for approval are to replace two departmental vehicles which have for some years been in past work.
a state of dissolution and are now
Head 27-Botanical and Forestry. Department calls for a new post of storemat which is considered essential.
major part of the work of the Com- It will be noted that the total ex- mission should be a consideration penditure for 1831 exceeds the re- of the personnel, and confusion vised estimate for the current year might well have resulted if the same by a sum of 81,484,353 in spite of work had been to led from op the drastic cuts to which reference
sware of the need for the ment posto sides. Obvious reductions of will to made later. The value of
porters in connection with the to make, and wherever possible re balanced by the lower value of the course the Government was ready these outs is more than countor
Sanitary Board's policy for convey- ing all meat from slaughter house cruiting arrangements already made dollar (1/4d. as against 1/10d.) and A small launch as replacement is the number of cleaning coolies in Head 13,Harbour Department to market stall: A reduction in have been cancelled and develop the increase of some 8000,000 in the naked for by the Police for work shown. Under Special Expenditure ment which could by any reason-Military Contribution. It should in shallow waters on the frontier. the Board's recommendations have and sixty-five thouland three bunable means he postponed has been be mentioned that the alteration in The only other launch included is a been inevitably cut down to the dred and thirty-five dollare to the suspended with a consequential re-salarice resulting from the Salarios tug for the Sanitary Department's minimum necessary for a continua public service of the year 1931."
duction of the extra staff that would Report affects both years equally rofuse dismoan), but it is intended tion of its efficiency. The motor In preparing the Budget which is have been required, elegant ka
The copies of the estimates now not to authorise the expenditure, it CATA now before the Council the Govern
in the hands of Hon. Members arg
now generally approved, without inent has had to take account of a' But the special-egort at retrench- very fully detailed and annotated, further reference to the Council number of factors which are new ment of personnel now required and, leaving salaries on one side, Departments asked for a number needs close and prolonged study, few departures except in the diree of other launches, but it is anticipat First and foremost must be ranked with a perspective not limited to tion of savings from the 1950 estled chat, retranchment. of launches the world-wide trade depression the the inside of Government offices: mate will be found. There are, generally by means of a rodistribu effects of which it is impossible to and the Retrenchment Commission Lowever, a few details which will tion of duties may be possible in
the course of 1931. escape. It has taken just over tea as constituted is particularly well require further explanation to qualified for this work, and can be which will shortly refer. But
Aviation Subaidy. years for the full effect of the depended upon to do it thoroughly: first I would draw attention to the enormous wastage of material, the Questions of personnel have there summaries which are now 48 re- Head 138.-Air Services. A ro. destruction of millions of the fore largely been left over for the quested by the unofficial members duced subsidy of 850,000 for com time; but new appointments have last year, added to each departmercial aviation has been included, world's best producers, and above been avoided, and limited contracts mental estimate showing as near as none of this year's vote of all the almost complete stagnation are not being extended to perman. as may be the total cost of each 8100,000 has so far been used. It is anticipated, howover, that there for four and a half years of producent service, wherever it has beco department.
possible to follow this line. And
Details of Estimates.
may before long be a forward move tive industry, which were the chief meanwhile close touch is being
ment in this respect and Govern economic features of the Great War, maintained with the Retrenchment Head 1. H.E. the Governor con-ment will be prepared to come to to make theriselves felt. Until Commission,
tains an addition of 82,600, under the Council for further funds it Enirly recently the war's legacy of
the sub-head "furniture in order to care for an increase of the to duplicate certain articles which subsidy can be made good. The living on capital and on credit pro-}
at present have to be frequently salary of the Superintendent of duced something like prosperity.
and Government: Houso, This mer conveyed between Mountain Lodge Aerodrome is inserted on the new Salaries seale. I regret an error But it is now clear that the world
thod is entirely, uneconomical and which appears under Hoad 130 Air is at last having to face hard con-
the expendituro now asked for may Estimates Bub-head. 6, an Item of The posts of four engineers and Services on page 34 of the printed. special expenditure entitled "Initial four overacers which became vacant Grant to Flying Club, for which this year through retirements, etc., under 1931 show "nil, as this is Fatimates in view of the smaller 860,000 was voted in 1930, should have not been filled and no provi
sion is made for them in 1931 22 non-recurrent item. This will reduce the expenditure for 1931 by brackets 8300,000 in five years chia amount.. The remark, in was orroneously printed in the 1930 setudied, this year. estimates and by an overaight per
"The Fall in Exchance.
Retrenchment on other heads of expenditure, however, is another matter) as hon, members will have occasion to notice when I come to deal with Public Works Recurrent and Public Works Extraordinary especially.
Head 14-Royal Observatory. A new post for a atone polisher in con- nection with lithographic work is asked for
a
Head 28.--Education Department. Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular Schools have been reduced of neces sity and various other sub-heads of Other Charges show reductions
Head 20.-Public Works Depart racnt. A number of officers whose. duties are entirely connected with loan works have been taken out of the departmental estimates; details appear in Appendix VII. The only additional staff asked for in two Waterworks. Inspectors whose ap pointment, has already been ap proved by the Finance Committee.
Drastic Reductions in P.W.D.
prograsime of work,
Hoad 30.-Public Works Etour rent. Drastic reductions have been' made, as will be observed, in almost every item of this vote. The Colony has for long been accustom- Public Works Department: · but. ed
to very
high standards from the with the, devil of necessity driving. it is felt that a proper margin of
omic facts and to make good by a
be expected to justify itself in ja general decrease in the standard of stage any idea that the duty of report costs.
I should like to dispel at this short time by saving, constant irans living for its years of living on an trenchment is in any way the pre- Head Cadet Service shows a over-draft, Hong Kong was as rogativa of a commission special disproportionate increase over 1830 ly appointed for this purpose. little affected by the way as any Every year the smallest details of owing first to the accidental fact place in the world, and it appears each department's estimates are unpassed Cadets (six as against a that larger number than usual of that the Colony has been up to the scrutinised with the greatest care
before they are allowed to be in: normal, two) are expected to pass present less affected by the univers cluded in the Budget, and any 1931, and secondly to the increase. their final examinations during sal depression than most places. items which in the light of past on the recommendation of the But it would none the less be idle expenditure appear excessive are Salaries Commission, of the num- to suppose that we are or can be duced. Nor do I think I amber of Class I posts from five to wrong in ating that every head of geven. One retirement is anticipat. permanently untouched by that de department considers it his primary ed and one new Cadet has been ask pression To this world depression duty to give the taxpayer the basted for in the forthcoming competi must be added the more direct value for his money consistont with tive examination, as it was too inte reduction in drivers and firemen, dvation of the finish that adorns the Head 15-Fito Brigade shows ciener can still be secured at a lower cost, though perhaps are effect on the Colony of the very efficiency.
to cancel the advertised vacancy and the Special Expenditure, which department's work may be neces disheartening continuation of the At the same time. it la only na when the Retrenchment Commission has in recent years been consider sitated. civil war in China, A now rear tural that Government activities had begun its work. Hon. Mem- able, has been cut down to rangement of party leaders seems should expand when revenue is bers will, in the case of these and minimun, but there is no reason to
Head 31.Public Works Extraor~ · now to be emerging, but. a sound, basis for lasting peace has yet to be coming in well. And in hard times other sterling salaries, bear in mind think that efficiency has been in dinary. Here again the atmost found.
I like the present, the urgent noces. that the 1830 figurea as printed un- any way endangered.
possible economy, has boon enforce ity of balancing the Budget calla der, the various hoads were con- Head 23-Police Reserve Forces in the nature of commitments ed; and, most of the expendituro. for something more than the ardin-siderably supplemented from the I would draw attention to the now for works already in hand. We Locally the framing of the Budget this ronson the Government, as my Cost of Living Allowance, which under Personal Emoluments (91,234 the matter of development, out ary processes of scrutiny. For miscellaneous services vote" High sub-division "Anti-Piracy Guards cannot call an absoluta balt in for. 1931 has been seriously in predecessor said in this Council no longer appears in the 1031 in all) with a corresponding sub-when the business of balancing the fluenced by three considerations,
head (824,000) under Other Charges, Budget was taken in hand It was In the first place the unprecedented on the 19th of June, will bo de Estimates,
lighted if the recommendations of fall in the exchange rate of the the present Retrenchment Conimis- counting Stuff shows as regards the members are aware of the how head beyond a figure of two and a Hoad Senior Clerical and Ae making a total of $116,234. Hon. clear that expenditure under this dollar has caused a situation which sion make it possible to effect any graded staff no change in the total system under which these guards half million dollara simply could by itself would necessitate a very considerable economies in the bust. number of posts. But a reference ure now operated, and I will deal not be contemplated and the Direc draatio increase in the provision to'
to the personal emoluments sub-with the method of financing it tor of Public Works has drawn up head of the Imports and Exports when I come to the new revenue his programme, or rather cut it Office (head 12) and of the Supreme Bub-head opened for this purpose.down with this figuro in his mind; In the Budge: for:1930, the exchange" The total expenditur for 1931 is Court, (hend, 10) will show reduc- Apart from this the Police, Eat his customary memorandum on tha tion of two posts; against that remates call for no special remark, subject is in the hands of Hon. rato of 1/10d. was adopted. In the estimated at the figure Budget which is now before the 920,767,835, which exceeds the total duction, however, two additional except that small additions to the Members. Many desirable items Council it will be observed that the in the Bill now before the Coun- posts of stenographer who are numbers of constablus under all the have in the circumstances necessari- rate has been pat at 1/4d., after cil by the sum of 86,422,620, dis urgently required bave been insert contingents except European (whichly been deferred, such as markote much consideration of the uncertain, toing the estimated amount of the ed for approval.
shows & decrease of 3) have been and Intrines asked for by the Hani- factors which will control the pre-military, contribution on the 1031
Eight: New Posts.
Centered
Stary Board, the C. block of Kow vailing rate for 1031 Even where a revenus (84,784,200) and tho
Head. 24.--Prisons Department. Kon Hospital, postal developments sterling figure remains unaltered charges on account of public debt Bond, 4-Junior Clerical Service a hydro-extractor is asked for in in the Kowloon: Peninsular and of the increase in dollars of 37 per (81,038,230). The revenue totals similarly shows the same figures as connection with the laundry, which course road extensions: The, drus
tic nature of the outs made will be change involves would be & subj- that the Budget has been prepared puters to the Royal Observatory Victoria Gaol Personal Emolu ciently disquieting situation for any with the possibility of having to have been transferred to the Royal ments show an addition of one line. total of the suggestions require Government to fece in a single face a defidit of $2,200,000 at the Observatory betid, ne the work was type operator for the new machine.ments and demands received from financial year,"
close of the coming year. Not too too specialised for inclusion in the
all departments under this lead, The second factor to be consider. favourable a position admittedly, Junior Clerical Service generally Grant, to Leper, Asylum reached a figura excroding ten mil- ed is the revised sales of salaries but in all the circumstances not The maintenance of the same total
Hend p-Medical Department. 10 dollars; and the average al which are now in force as a result cho that need occasion alarm. It therefore implies an increase of Many desirable expansions have location in the Estimates for the of the recommendations of there will be remembered that for the right posts, which is considered been unavoidably deferred and peart five years has been over cent) Salaries Commission. These carront year the estimated deficit necessary, as this branch of the only important, additions are the 83,034,000, though the provision has were fully debated by this Council amounted to approximately four vice has been very short, handed in in June fast and it is uncessary for and a half millions 1830, nad if work is not to be motor dispensary for, the not usually been expended No mainland and the provision of doubt members of Counett me to make further comment there. Appendix: "A attached to
seriously hindered this increase is equipment, and stuff, for the now will miss from the completed list on. Whils Iraving, saldrica as Treasurer's momorandum
the minimum required, The dis maternity block at Kowloon Hos ang work or another which they enttled, Government has, however, revenue shows that our surplus these two clerical services is shown Leper Asylum, which is desirable in equally no donht variations or the
Surplus tribution as at present estimated ofpital. A grant to the Sheklung would have liked included an set up a very influential and ener- balance at the end of the current in Appendices I and II. getic Retrenchment Commission to year is estimated at 88,425,351,
view of the use which the Colony list which would remain just a investigate not only how far the While our balances can stand the Head Colonial Secretary's makes of this. Institution, has been Rood" are possible: but the pro- personnel is justified by the volume strain of the catimated deficit for Office An addition of 8500 to the insorted. The personnel of the dogramma how before you reprphonis of work performed but also to what 1981; they are being reduced to loo vole for cleaning of offices is asked partment remains almost as on the the best effort of the Government extent economies may be effected low a figure. It is hoped, however, for in order that proper supervision (1030. basis. It is not proposed to after very careful consideration,of in other directionell jedn
that as a result of the Retrench my ie afforded to this work,
fill the posts of secretary to the detail to fashion, its coat accord Director of Medical and Sanitary ing to the attenuated, supply, of Harvises Detail Burgsch-and
cloth available. ~ Ita will: bo, no-
be made for sterling commitments,ness of running, the Government, including of course the salaries of
Expenditure. all officers paid on a sterling basis. |
of
cent. which a drop of..Ed. in ex-| 27,488,759, and it thorofore appears in 1830, but eight posts of com- is one of the chief industries"realised when I stato that the
the
The establishment of the Re-ment Commission' work and of Head 6--Tranbury. The post of
foder Stofte" on the pðiley
"angat nigni the Government while framing the deficit next year may prove less and will disappoar in the course made in the current year's cati- prove, a useful working, garment. estimates, It is natural that the than is shown in the timates. of'next ‘year.
mates.
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