Encloure not.
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I rise by Your Excellency's command to move the first
reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to apply a sum not
exceeding $26,324,219 to the Public Service of the year 1935".
There are certain minor alterations to which I
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would invite attention in the form in which the Budget for
next year is presented. Two new appendices, 1 (A) and 1 (B)
show the distribution of the Senior Clerical and Accounting
Staff and Junior Clerical Service respectively. The
distribution is that for which provision is made in the
Budget, but it will be found in practice impossible strictly
to adhere to it, especially in the case of the Senior
Clerical and Accounting Staff in view of the leave movements
of officers domiciled outside the Colony. The distribution
of Public Works Department General Staff, formerly Appendix
1, is now shown under Appendix II (A), and Appendix V (C) –
Details of Public Works Staff paid from Loan Funds becomes
Appendix II (B). The other appendices have been re-numbered
and those dealing with the calculation of Defence Contribut--
ion and Expenditure from Loan have been remodelled and
expanded with a view to greater clarity. As adumbrated in
the Budget debate last year the Government House and City
Development Scheme has become a self-contained financial
unit the details of which are set out in a new Appendix VII.
The Ordinance giving legislative sanction for the creation
of this fund appears on the agenda of today's meeting of this Council and the reasons for treating the scheme in
this way are fully set out in its Objects and Reasons.
I now turn to the Budget itself. As the preamble