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It is submitted that only the net revenue from this service should be taken for the purposes of the Contribution.
le CONTRIBUTION FROM CHINESE GOVT. FOR MAINTENANCE OF GAP ROCK LIGHTHOUSE
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This reimbursement-in-aid of $750 pa is shewn on page
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8 of the 1931 Estimates and should be exempted from the calculation.
It is only a minor matter but on principle should be deducted.
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D. CONTRIBUTION FOR ANTI-PIRACY ESCORTS.
In June last it was decided at the request of shipowners
to place escorts on board ships, such escorts to be paid for by the shipowners concerned. A special body of men was recruited and the
expenses charged against the fees received which were calculated
to cover. Neither receipts nor payments for this service are shewn in the 1930 Estimates a suspense account being used. In drafting the 1931 Estimates it was considered preferable to shew as far as possible the personnel employed and the expenses to be
incurred. The fees received therefore will be credited to revenue
a sum of $143,272 having been inserted on page 11 of the 1931
revenue estimates. The following amounts were inserted separately in the expenditure estimates 1931.
Personal Emoluments page 50 last 8 items.
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Other Charges page 46 item 34.
891,234
24,000
$115,234.
This however does not cover the Government's liability in full
and in their appropriate sub-heads the following Charges a re allowed
for :-
Leave and passages.
$14,685
Pensions and gratuities
7,836
Recruiting, housing and overhead charges.
4,860
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$27.381.
A total of $142,615. It was on this basis that the charges
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to shipowners were reckoned and a "flat" rate calculated. scheme has not been in operation 6 months nor will the above
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