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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL
Heads and Sub-Heads.
Estimated.
Actual.
Brought forward.......................
2,903,975
2,346,621.40
EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.
Increase.
Decrease.
Provisionally
Voted.
$
27.855.95
584,709.55
Explanatory Remarks.
ROYAL OBSERVATORY :—
Personal Emoluments
87,081
30,903.55
Books and Postage
150
132.06
717.45 17.04
Electric Light and Power
500
508.18
3.18
Lapsing salaries.
Gus.....
10X
99.44
Incidental Expenses...
120
70.99
Laboratory Expouses
{X00
814.60)
50 48.01 83,40
Printing and distribution of Meteorological
Bulletin ...............
3,300
2,922.75
377.25
Transport
100
80.46
Maintenance of Timo Service ........................
150
Meterological Telegrams...
101.88 · 851.50
10.54 49.02
851.50
2,000.00:
Special Expenditure.
Under-estimated.
Bavings. Do.
Printing of evening weather report diacontinued from 12th September
Savings.
Vote taken in July but expenditure for five months only brought to account
Magnetic instruments
8,000
50,401
8,000,00
41,955.51
854.68
Less Increase.......
Savings.....
9,800.17 854.68
8,445.49
4,000.00
6,000.00
Instruments ordered but not received.
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES;
Bathing Places, North Point, Kennedy Town, and Stonecutter's Islud
10,500
9,117.24
British Empire Exhibition
Bonuses for Interpreters and Translators...
1,000
1,382.70 1,000.00
Bungalows Committee, Caretakers .........................
240
Coal for Offices.......
2,000
205.197.38 240,00 1,064.54
205,197,58
£25,000.0.0
Crown Agents' Commission
7,500
12,678.04
5,178.64
Entertainment of Foreigu Sailors
20,000
395.46
20,000,00
6,100.00
More commission paid during the year.
Over-estimated.
No bonus paid.
The Continuance of the Exhibition in 1925 was not anticipated when the
[estimates were made up
Milder winter.
Furniture for Government Offices and
Qurtera...
55,500
Geological Survey of Colony
14,000
59.193.86 10,831.20
3,633.30
3,108.80
6,600.00
More furniture.
Over-estimated.
Grauss in aid of Scientific Institutions :—
British Empire Leprosy Assiciation,
London (£100)
889
842.11
46.89
British Engineering Standards
Association, (£15)
134
132.11
1.89
Higher exchange.
Cancer Research Faud, (£80)..
267
257.14
9.86
Do.
Colonial Advisory Medical and
Do.
Sanitary Committee. (£25)
223
78.84
149.16
Imperial Bureau of Entomology,
Do.
London (£300)
2,087
2,520.82
140.08
Imperial Bureau of Mycology,
Do.
Lorton (173)
607
031.58
85.42
Institution of Civil Engineers ;
Do.
Committee on Deterioration
of Structures exposed to Neu Action (150).
445
432.43
12.57
London School of Hygiene Tropical
Medicine, (£100)
Do.
889
842.11
46.89
Tropical Disenses Research Fund,
Do.
(£100)
BRO
857.14
81.80
Tropical Diseases Bureau, London,
Do.
(£900)
2,087
2,571.48
95.57
Do.
Carried forward
Carried forward.
120,477 308,028.77
2,954,376 2,388,576.91
214,009.58
28,210.68
26,457.61
594,009.72
£25,000.0.0 12,700,00
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