199
10
REVENUE
Approved
DETAILS OF REVENUE,
Estimate
1938.
Estimate 1939.
$
$
2,029,800
2,172,451
Brought forward
3.-LICENCES & INTERNAL REVENUE
NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.
DETAILS OF Revenue.
REVENUE
Brought forward
4. FEES OF COUNT OR OFFICE
200
II
Approved Estimate
Estimate 1989.
1938.
$
$
$
999,250
1,036,950
(A) FEES,-Continued.
(A) LICENCES, -Continued.
Vehicles, Other Drivers, etc.
2,000
Vehicles, Motor Special Licensing Fee-Foreign Registration.. Wireless Receiving
40,000
100,000
Other
7,500
2,000 80,000 (1) 135,000 (2)
5,700
Public School Registry
School Certificates Examination
255,000 1,000 1.400
270,000 (1) 1,500 (2)
2,000 (1)
Sunday Cargo-Working Permits Survey of Steam-Launches
110,000
110,000
18,000
18,000
(B) INTERNAL REVENUE.
Assessed Taxes (Rates)
Assessed Taxes (Rates) N.T. North
11
Bets and Sweeps Tax
Entertainment Tax
Estate Duty
Stamp Duties
Water Excess Supply & Meter Rents
6,000,000
South
7,600 3,600
120,000
225,000
6,200,000 (8) 7,650 4,350
200,000 (5)
300,000 (5)
} (4)
Watchmen's Ordinance
Survey of Steamships Trade Marks Registration Traffic Permits
Water Service
180,000
140,000
20,000
20,000
6,000
11,000
13,000 (3)
8,000
Wireless School Fees
1,800
(4) 3,500 (1)
1,250,000
1,250,000
(B) RECEIPTS.
2,150,000
2,300,000 (6)
Bacteriological Examinations
7,500
10,000 (5)
1,900,000
2,096,000 (7)
Fumigating & Disinfecting Fees
14,500
35,000 (6)
Legal Costs
120
120
Fines
(C) FINES & FORFEITURES.
Building Covenant Fines
Forfeitures
5,000
15,000 (8)
134,000
150,000 (9)
30,000
40,000 (9)
Total
$
14,004,500
14.958,151
4. FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, and REIMBURSE- MENTS IN AID :-
Medical Treatment
Midwives enrolment and retention Official Administrator's Commission Official Receiver's Commission Police Services
Prisoners' Subsistence........... Scavenging
Sick Stoppages from Police Force Slaughter Houses
110,000
150,000 (7)
1,200
500 (8)
2,000
2,000
23,000
20,000
15,000
18,000
1,900
2,000
4,300
4,000
3,500
4,000
136,000
145,000 (9)
Slaughter Houses, Ma Tau Kok
62,000
62,000
(A) FEES.
Air Services
Ambulance and Cremation
Analysis
Billa of Health
Births and Deaths Registration
20,000 700 35,000
70,000 (10) 1,000 (11)
35,000
(C) REIMBURSEMENTS IN ÅID.
Bonded Warehouse Supervision
4,000
4,000
Consultants Fees
3,500
10,000 (10)
Contribution for Anti-Piracy Escorts
115,000
120,000
9,000
9,000
6,500
9,000 (12)
Blake Pier Tickets
Contribution towards cost of Maintaining Sham Tseng Dispensary Film Censoring Fees
1,000
1,000
5,500
5,500
Boundary Stones & Survey Fees
300 30,000
250
Maintenance of Gap Rock Light House, Contribution from
30,000
Cemetery
Chinese Government
750
750
Certificates to Chinese Proceeding to America
750 500
750
Use of Motor Vans
27,000
30,000 (11)
500
China Companies
Widows and Orphans' Pensions Contributions
421,000
435,000 (12)
210,000
210,000
Chinese Cemetery
6,500
18,000 (18)
Court
(D) SALES.
85,000
85,000
Police and Other Stores
1,200
1,200
Crown Leases
48,000
40,000 (14)
Deeds Registration
76,000
72,000 (15)
Earth and Stone Permits N. T.
5,500
5,500
Engagement and Discharge of Seamen
50,000
50,000
Evening Institute
Prison Industries
Publications
Sand
Timber
5,000
3,200 (13)
2,000
2,000
90,000
210,000 (14)
8,000
750 (15)
8,000
8,000
Examination of Masters, Mates and Engineers
1,500
1,500
Gunpowder Storage
30,000
80,000
Hong Kong Companies Registration
20,000
20,000
Maternity Home Registration
500
450
Medical Examination of Emigrants
220,000
220,000
Miscellaneous
Money Lenders
Motor Ambulance
Motor Driving Tests
Official Certificates
Official Signatures
Passport
Possession
14,500
2,000
7,000 (16) 2,000
Box Rents
Total
5. POST OFFICE,
Commission on Money and Postal Orders Message Fees Postage
2,615,420
2,896,970
12,550 9,500
665,000
15,000 (16) 10,000
102,000 (17)
1,750,000
2,800.000 (18)
8,000
10,000 (17)
T
5.000 (16)
Total
$
2,437,050
2,927,000
35,000
20,000 (9)
22,000
27,000 (9)
24,000
25,000
6. KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
R1. Passenger Service, Passengers, Foreign Line
650,000
450,000
30,000
30.000
Carried forward
Carried forward
650,000
450,000
(1) More foreign cars.
(2) More licences.
(3) Rise in rentals and less vacant, tenements.
(4) Development expected in rateable areas.
(5) Increased attendances.
(6) Improved business conditions.
(7) Based on new rates. Increased consumption,
(8) More fines imposed.
(9) Variable.
1,086,950
(10) Large increase in services using Air Port.
(11) More diseased carcases cremated.
(12) More registration.
(13) More burials.
(14) Fewer Crown Leases issued.
(15) Less Deeds registered.
(16) New Head.
(17) More patients conveyed.
999,250
(1) Increased enrolment.
(2) More registration.
3 More Watchmen supplied.
(4) New Waterworks Ordinance.
5) Increased sales.
(6) More fumigation of ships.
7) More paying patients.
(8) Decreased enrolment.
More animals slaughtered.
(10) More consultations.
(12) More contributors.
(13) Less remunerative work.
(14) Gross receipts.
(15) Government fuel supply.
(16) More boxholders.
(17) Commercial services transferred.
(18) Increased population.
(11) More carcases conveyed.