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POST OFFICE.
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200 20.
Allowances to Police Officers for Post Office Work,8540.
There are also sundry alterations in minor appointments and in the
pay of and allowances to the more subordinate staff into the de-
-tails of which it seems hardly necessary for me to enter.
9.
The principal items of "Other Charges in the
nature of "Special Expenditure" which require your sanction are
£100 for sectional steel filing cabinets for the Colonial Secreta-
-ry's Office, £180 for some new instruments which the Director of
the Observatory has represented as being necessary, 85,000 under
the head "Police" for a motor launch to render more effective the
patrol of the harbour by night; under Sanitary Department 5 items
amounting to 83,275 for the plant and traction required for the
scavenging of the City and Hill District which it has been decided
for reasons of economy and efficiency to carry out departmentally
on the expiration of the present contract at the end of this year
and $10,000 to permit of a continuance of the policy of removal of
ceilings as a plague preventive measure; under Education $1,500
for the better equipment of the laboratory at Queen's College to
enable the College to cope effectively with the increasing demand
for education in chemistry and physics and $10,000 for a building
grant to the Diocesan Girls' School, Kowloon, which is expected to
be earned under the Grant Code next year and in connection with
which I would refer you to the correspondence ending with your
Despatch No. 214 of lltn. July, 1912; and under Military Expendi-
-ture $5,000 for 12 Mark IV Tripods to replace Maxim Cun lountings
which are now obsolete.
10.
The programme of Public Works for 1913 is con-
-siderably larger than that for the current year chiefly owing to
the large appropriations which have been made for the Typhoon
Refuge, for the Second Section of the Tytan Tuk Waterworks, for a
Wireless Station and for quarters for Government officers.
HONGKONG.