422
A (1) 10
10. As a result of the Ottawa Conference it was decided that, although the Free Trade conditions of Hong Kong give few openings for reciprocity, motor vehicles provided an opportunity for adopting the principle of preference. A general import duty, although possible, might have interfered with the entrepôt trade which it is so desirable to encourage in the Colony and it was decided that effect should be given to the principle at the time of registration for use in the Colony. It was therefore enacted by Ordinance No. 32 of 1932 that motor vehicles which are not Empire products should be subject to a special licence fee on first registration of an amount equal to twenty per cent of the value, including cost, insurance and freight of such vehicle, on its arrival in the Colony after deduction of the value of the tyres and of any spare wheels or other spare parts. It will be seen therefore that foreign motor vehicles may be stored in the Colony and re-exporter without tax but immediately they are sold for use in the Colony the special licence fee becomes payable.
Expenditure.
11. The expenditure for the year amounted to $32,050,283 against an estimate of $34.981,661 a decrease of $2.981,378. The total sum of $32,050,283 is made up as follows:-
Heads of Expenditure.
Actual 1931
Estimates, 1932
Actual 1932
His Excellency the Governor Cadet Service
Treasury...
Audit Department District Office, North
Do, South
(4)-Post Office
(B)- Do. Wireless Telegraph
Services Imports and Exports Office (A)-Harbour Department
Do.
Fire Brigade... Supreme Court
Attorney General's Office Crown Solicitor's Office Official Receiver's Office Land Office
A (1) 11
170,605.97 636,078.97
$ 209,720 755.321
$ 0. 165,697.86
554,240.58
Senior Clerical and Accounting
Staff
341,045.84
409,634
302,843.48
Junior Clerical Service
871,431.71
973,480
932,571.81
Colonial Secretary's Office and
Legislature
68,228.05
78,946
60,372.93
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
21,308,45
27,938
28.607.63
71,280.57
115,580
92,138.35
81,080.71
97,054
59.883 07
22.958.36
26,867
22,005.73
11,041.82
18,6+4
11,151.33
406,215.38
448,592
457,655.03
148,677.96
1,031,294 48
156.604 802,437
152,214.25
095.074,02
962.648.12
1,298,865
1,020,784.07
(B)-
Air Service..
26.691.12
52.807
11,545.84
Royal Observatory
74,137.85
8*,160
68,184.87
305,0 6.77
363,905
297,080.17
185,316.02
209.00
172.095.89
50,632.92
50,190
38.717.16
55,252 64
70,668
65,003.76
20,711.14
24.641
18,806.12
42,163.90
48,604
37.135.93
Ordinary Expenditure
$29,082.423
Magistracy, Hong Kong
1,990.37
2,274
2,088.09
Do.. Kowloon
1.892.66
2.117
1,733.12
Police Force ...
2,768,161.31
3,075,359
2,520,708.37
Extraordinary Expenditure Public Works................
Part payment to the Admiralty for surrender of the Naval Arsenal Yard and Kellett Island
Ordinary Expenditure for the year was $29,082,423 against $28,785,843 in the preceding year showing an increase $296,580.
12. In the following table the actual expenditure for the year 1932 is compared with the expenditure of the previous year and with the estimates for 1932.
Public Works Department.
Do. Recurrent
1,967,860
Prison Department
778.119.73
942,910
765,777.56
Medical Department
1,336,923.89
1,628,764
1,285,571,04
Sanitary Department
851,751.65
1,033,504
846,286.83
Botanical & Forestry Department
116,683.84
129,070
117.200.45
Education Department
1,707,557.94
2,046,096
1,745.983 64
1,000,000
Kowloon-Canton Railway
879.2/1.25
959,025
873,466.90
(4) Volunteer Defence Corps...
97,083.20
182.949
(B)-Military Contribution
4,932.598.36
6,366,567
110,261.35
6,569,239.47
Miscellaneous Services
2,211,125.69
1.452,481
1.580.943.65
of
Charitable Services
174,585.90
175,762
169,926.51
Charge on Account of Public
Debt.
1,894,290 79
Pensions...
1,541,441.41
1,973,307 1,708,000
1,666,704.81
2,306,678.48
1,581,926.75
1,545,269.52 2,335,1/4 2,116,882,14 1,521,800 1,900,619.99
28,785,842,01
31,808,116 29,082,423.32
Public Works Extraordinary
2,374,931.99
31,160,774,00
2,173,545 1,967,860.20
Expenditure from Surplus
Balances...
33,981,661 31,060,283.52
1,000,000 1,000,000.00
TOTAL...
...$
31,160,774.00
34,981,661 32,050.283,52
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