HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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A meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presided.
Items, totalling $147,505, contained in message No. 9 from H.E. The Officer Administering the Government, were considered. All the items were approved.
Respecting Item 75-Public Works, Extraordinary:
Wireless Telegraphy,--Expenditure on Buildings and Plant to effect necessary improvements
$91,400
HON. MR. J. OWEN HUGHES asked what increased revenue was expected from wireless messages to meet the proposed increased expendi- ture.
THE CHAIRMAN-It is impossible to forecast, but the revenue from wireless is growing very rapidly.
Item No. 81:-Colonial Secretary's Office:-Special Ex-
penditure, provision of steel filing cabinets
$15,000
HON. MR., A. C. HYNES-Are these filing cabinets of British manufacture?
THE CHAIRMAN-Yes.
HON. MR. J. OWEN HUGHES-I have seen the old cabinets and I certainly agree that new ones are necessary.