CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]

Hongkong Typhoon Relief Fund.

Statement of Expenditure by Sub-Committee.

I.

Grants made up to the 7th March towards procuring new boats or repairing damaged boats.

Class of Boats No. of Cases Amount of Relief Chinese:- A Cargo Boats 637 $96,785.00 B Sampans and Rowing Boats 290 $17,503.00 C Fishing Sampans 323 $21,676.00 Other Boats 4 $1,438.00 Fishing Junks 143 $28,110.00 Junks (Misc.) 203 $32,290.00 1,600 $197,802.00 European:- 1 $200.00 1,601 $198,002.00

II.

Gifts made to Widows and Orphans and others who suffered loss up to the 7th March.

No. of Cases Amount of Relief Chinese 201 $12,265.00 European 6 $3,863.45 207 $16,128.45

III.

Paid on account to the Tung Wa Hospital to defray cost of recovering and burying corpses and of maintaining destitutes.

$17,985.30

IV.

Clerks' salaries.

$577.16