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Kowloon Canton Railway.
Estimate. Actual. Increase.
Passenger Service
Increase in the number of passengers owing to the accelerated express train service.
Auxiliary operations, Foreign
Haulage
Increase of haulage of fast goods trains and extra charge for additional coaches
$
1,059,400 1,854,462
295,062
Rent of Government Property, Land and Houses.
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Miscellaneous Receipts.
Estimate.
Actual.
Increase.
$
$
$
Conservancy Contracts
1,450 16,812 15,362
New Contract
Overpayments in previous years
Casual
8,000
22,098 14,098
Other Miscellaneous Receipts.
75,000 94,816
19,316
135,000 166,226 31,226
Exchange transactions ac- counted for $16,996. Appreciation of Sterling
Securities
13,043
13,043
Increase in market value at 31/12/33 of investments on account of surplus balances
Royalty payable by Kowloon
Motor Bus Co., Ld.
63,592
63,592
Estimate.
Actual.
Increase.
A new item
Royalty
payable by China
$
$
$
Motor Bus Co., Ld.
48,287 48,287
Lands Not Leased
260,000
281,755
21,755
A new item
Increase in the number
of permits issued
7. The principal decreases over the amounts as estimated were as follows:-
Leased Lands (Crown Rent Ex-
clusive of N.T.)
Increase in land leased
528,000
539,086
11,086
Interest.
Estimate. Actual. Increase.
$
200,000 306,326 106,326
Interest
The actual expenditure for the year both ordinary and on loan account was short of the estimate. Hence larger sums than anticipated were available for short term investments
Duties.
Estimate. Actual. Decrease.
$
$
$
273,286
Import Duty on Liquor ...................... 1,800,000 1,026,714
Less consumption of Chi- nese liquor.
Import Duty on Tobacco ...... 4,600,000 2,921,456 1,678,544
Receipts overestimated &
less tobacco imported
Port and Harbour Dues.
- Estimate.
Light Dues
$
640,000
Actual.
$
524,436
Decrease.
115,564
Rate reduced from 1st April, 1933
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