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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL
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EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.
Heads and Sub-Hends.
Estimated.
Actual
Increase.
Decrease.
Provisionally Voted.
1
$
$
$
Brought forward
646,470
835,321.74
14,888.77
28,035.03
HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT —
A-BARBOUR OFFICE.
Personal Emolmments
234,107
229,989.50
Acetylene Gas for Lighthouses, and
General Upkeep of Agn Lights
Boats, Renewal of.....
4,500 360
3,918.85 845.00
4,117.50
581.15 15.00
5,380.00
Lapaing salaries.
Coal and Oil Fuel for Latuchos ...........
123,700
99,591.32
23,108.68
Coal, Paraffin, nud Stores for Lighthouses
8,000
6,617.81
1,882.69
Savings.
Conveyance and Motor Allowances
8,060
2,923.52
136.48
Electric Fans and Light
750
749.56
.44
Examination Fees.....
2,000
2,000.00
Expenses of numbering boats
1,900
1,138.95
761.05
Fees to Unoticial Members of Murine
Do.
Courts
400
380.00
Gear, Porterage, etc......................
1,000
859.84
40.00 140.10
Guu Cotton Charges and
Electric
Detonators for Fog Signals
2,000
3,618.41
1,618.41
1,610.X)
Incidental Expenses.
2,000
640.98
1,359.02
Moorings
700
1.195.00
495.00
495.00
Oil and Sandry Stores
3,000
1,850.24
1,149.76
Paraffin and Stores for Wireless plant at
Gap Rock
Petrolema
700 125
853.80 75.70
346.20
49.80
Savings.
Raising and Renewing Moorings of Ocean
Steamships
25,000
24,594.00
406.00
Rent of Office at Sailors Hotne
Repairs and Stores for Launches......
480 69,840
480.00
66,386.05
$,453.95
Repairs to Boats and Buoys...
1,700
756.38
943.62
Slipway at Yamusti, Expenses
900
630.77
269.23
Steam Launch Hire
500
83.70
416.30
Do.
Transport
900
146.77
753.28
Triennial Inspection of Launch Boilers ...
2,400
277.85
2.122,65
Uniforms for Boarding Officers, Bouthien,
and Messengers.....
2,300
1,813.05
486.95
SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.
Explanatory Remarks.
Revision in the "fog marks" necessitating a further supply of 5000 charges to Savings.
[Waglan Lighthouse.
New moorings required for Police launch at Taipo.
Construction of the tug not completed.
Typhoon Moatings
Relief Buoy for S.L. Victoria....
Motor Launch for Govt. Slipway
74,000 300 8,000
54,280.00
19,720.00
Savings.
Rescue Tug, Construction of
185,000
800.00 7,900.00 184,250.00
100.00 750.0
Do.
Do., Lloyds Fees for Classifica-
tion....
2,300
2,800.00
Do..
Wireless Telegraph and
Telephone Set for.......
9,800
Wireless Telegraph and Tolephone Set
for Harbour Office......
4,500
7,158.15
3,851.25
2,641.85
648.75
Patrol Launches, Construction of........
300,000
Do.,
Wireless Telegraph and
Telephone Set
4 Patrol Launches, Upkeep of
Kelvinators for Gap Rock and Waglan
16,000 133,000
300,000.00
16,000.00
Lighthouses
1,850
142,872.66
1,125.00
9,872.66
10,100.00
725.00
Lees Increse ...............--------
Savings...
1,203,072 638.193.11
11.986.07
884,924.96 11.998.07
372,988.80
17,544.00
Carried forward
1,852,642 1,468,454.85
26,872.84
410,959.90
Do.
Do.
Construction abandoned.
Heavy expenditure on Stores by Naval Authorities.
Purchase not completed.
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