Enclosure No. 2.
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COLONIAL TREASURER:
H.K. 33800
To
34.
Your Excellency,
The Resolutions standing in my name are the
outcome of Ordinance No. 30 of 1934.
Section 4(1)
of that Ordinance requires that the expenditure for preparing, development and carrying out the scheme shall be authorised and appropriated from time to
time by resolution of this Council subject to the
approval of the Secretary of State.
Honourable Members are aware of all the facts
as these have been explained not only in the budget
debates of 1933 and 1934 but also when the Ordinance
was introduced in September last.
The first resolution deals with expenditure
during 1933. This was originally charged to a special
head in the Estimates before the Fund was a thorised,
Council having approved of a Supplementary Vote of
$31,166 in December, 1933, (see Finance Message No.12
Item 128).
The second and third resolutions deal with
expenditure during 1934 and 1935. Details are given
in Appendix VII of the 1935 Estimates p. 118. When
these estimates were prepared in September last the
revised figure for 1934 was given as $30,000 but owing
to the contract for the Approach Road having been
awarded late in the year no expenditure was incurred
beyond the cost of issue of certain stores amounting
to $8,925. Honourable Members will observe one
alteration when the figures in the third resolution are compared with the figures for 1935 in Appendix VII.
I am asking for authority to admit charges up to $91,075 instead of $70,000 in respect of Item 2 (a)
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