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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL
EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1933
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Heads and Sub-Heads.
Estimated.
Actual.
Increase.
Decrease.
Provisionally
Voted.
Explanatory Remarks.
$ 15,199,988
$ 13,448,784.13
$ 213,616.11
$ 1,964
$
1.98
Brought forward
27.-DEFENCE.
A. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
Sub-heads;—
1 Personal Emoluments
OTHER CHARGES.
46,340
36,302.21
10,037.79
Higher exchange.
Less officers in training.
Higher exchange,
900.00
Band disbanded.
Account outstanding,
2 Allowances for Officers and N.C.Os.
undergoing Training in England
3,000
3 Ammunition
14,550
402.58 8,621.77
4 Armoured Car and Motor Machine
Gun Section
2,000
1,894.50
5 Band Allowances
1,000
244.18
6 Books, Stationery, and Printing
850
7 Camp Expenses
14,000
333.63 12,957.63
8 Conveyance Allowance to Corps
Quartermaster
180
180.00
9 Equipment for the Engineer Company
and Signals
900
402.50
10 Equipment Flying Section
150
11 Equipment and Upkeep of Arms
3,000
2,660.03
12 Fuel and Light
900
899.53
13 Grant to Machine Gun Troop
10,800
10,800.00
14 Incidental Expenses
600
507,17
15 Rifle Ranges, Expenses
1,000
894.56
16 Transport
3,440
3,413.10
17 Uniform, including Boots
13,000
11,649.56
18 Uniform for Messengers and Coolies...
350
170.97
SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.
19 2 Night Firing Boxes, Machine Gun...
23.5
231.55
20 Bar and Stroud Range Finder
1,068
920.25
21 4 Vickers Guns and spare parts
15,221
13,403.54
22 Armoured Car
20,000
18,135.59
23 2 Motor Cycle Combinations
2,915
2,639.93
24 4 D.P. Lewis Guns
1,306
1,137,38
25 6 Sets A. A. Sights and Mountings..
69
52.97
26 6 Bar Foresights Machine Gun
76
69.11
27 6 Pairs Binoculars Prismatic
745
607.10
28 100 Paillasses and Bolster cases
991
738.22
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1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1
1
2,597.47
=
5,928.23
105.41
755.87
516.37
1,042.37
497.50
150.00
339.97
0.47
92.83
105.44 26.90
1,350.44 179.03
3.45
147.75
1,817.46
1,864.41
275.07
168.62
29 1 Artillery Pattern Bar and Stroud
Range Finder
1,124
927.22
30 Switchboards Magneto 10 Line Cord- less, 10 Telephones No. 100 and 22 Cells Inert
1,406
16.03
6.89
137.90
252.78
196.78
1,406.00
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31 Improvements to Camps
495.02
Total Volunteer Defence Corps
Less Increase
161,216
131,691.79
495.02
495.02
-
30,019.29
Savings
1,400,00
-
495.02
29,524.21
B. MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.
Contribution to Imperial Government.
5,832,271
5,694,558.60
137,712.40
Less Increase
Savings
=
137.712.40
Carried forward
21,193,475 19,275,034.52
214,111.13
2,182,551.61
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Higher exchange.
This section is not formed.
Higher exchange.
Higher exchange.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
500.00
Cerown Agents a/c not received. Found necessary during the year.
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