Head 4.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT
Head 4.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY
DEPARTMENT
Sub-heads :-
1 Personal Emoluments
Other Charges.
Approved Estimate, 1938.
Estimate, 1939.
89,642
89,853
2 Brushwood Clearing
3 Conveyance allowances
7,000
7.000
2,500
3,000
(1)
4 Expenses of Collections
200
200
5 Extraction of Timber
2,500
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(2)
6 Field allowances to Foresters
800
800
7 Forestry
16.000
19,500
(3)
8 Forestry Reserve, Taipo Kau: Maintenance and Formation
3,000
3,000
9 Incidental Expenses
400
400
10 Library
300
450
(4)
11 Light
400
400
12 Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds..
11,000
11,500
(5)
13 Protection of Plantations
1,500
1,500
14 Tools and Nursery Supplies
***
600
15 Transport..
1,550
1,700
| (1)
16 Uniforms and Accoutrements
1,250
1,250
17 Upkeep of Car
1,100
1,000
(7)
Total Other Charges
47,000
54,800
Special Expenditure.
18 Planting Flowering Shrubs
2,000
19 One Motor Mowing Machine
20 Six Small Mowing Machines
21 Temporary Quarters for Forest Protection Staff..
2,000 2,000 600 2,700
(8)
(9)
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(10)
Three new Mowing Machines
937
(11)
Total Special Expenditure
Total Botanical & Forestry Department.
2,937
139,579
7,300
151,953
NUMBERS. 1938 1939
Personal Emoluments.
Details of the foregoing.
1
Superintendent, (£700 for 2 years, then £730 to
£950 by 6 of £30, and 1 of £40 annually) Assistant Superintendent, (£400 to £750 by 8 of
£25 and 5 of £30 annually)
12,500
14,097 (12)
9,600
6,818 (12)
Junior Clerical Service:
Class II ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)
2,850 (13)
2
Class III, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160,
3 of $50 and 2 of $100)
2,600
(14)
1,265
1,466
(15)
1
1
Supervisor, (£260 to £350 by 5 of £10 and 2 of
£20)
5,600
5,600
Do.,
Language Allowance..
120
120
Assistant Supervisor, ($1,800 to $2,400 by $120
annually)
2,000
2,120
(15)
Do.,
Language Allowance
120
120
Do.,
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19
2112
212
Herbarium Assistant, ($500 to $650 by $25 annually) Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)...
Rent Allowance..........
Messengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)
Do.. Rent Allowances at $24 each Motor Drivers. ($550 to $650 by $50 annually) Storeman, ($500 to $950 by $50 annually) Assistant Storemen, ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially)
Carried forward
(1) Considered necessary. (2) To supply firewood for Government use. (3) Provision for additional daily labour.
(4) Includes provision for periodicals previously under
Head 18. Sub-head 28.
(5) Additional areas Queen Mary Hospital and
Central British School.
(6) For Queen Mary Hospital. (7) Considered sufficient.
(8) For use at Kowloon Hospital and Central British
School
(9) Considered necessary for uneven and sloping areas. (10) Re-arrangement of staff.
(11) Non-recurrent.
(12) Changes in personnel: revised scales of salary. (13) Promoted from Class III.
(14) Promoted to Class II. (15) Stipulated increments. (16) Changes in personnel.
604
629
(15)
204
192
(16)
24
24
335
324
(16)
48
48
1,300
1,300
938
554
(16)
600
552 (16)
37,858
36,814
19
77