EXPENDITURE
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEARS 1929–1938 AND ESTIMATE, 1939.
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Service
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1931
1935
1936
1937
Revised Estimate 1938
Estimate
1939
201
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$
$
1
H. E. the Governor
102,148
150,450 170,606
185,698 164,345 155,716
143,776
148,207
194,815
178.000
174,801
Cadet Service
316,807
517,814
636,079
554,241
Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff..
205,582
323,756
341,046
302,843
-
Junior Clerical Service
669,823
860,646
871,432
932,572
2
Colonial Secretary's Office &
Legislature
40,665
68,438
68,228
3
Audit Department
47,193
4
Botanical and Forestry Department....
98,413
5
Charitable Services
100,080
6A
Volunteer Defence Corps
83,758
67,919
120,192 116,684
135,187 174,586
93,842
81,081
97,083
60,373 281,176
59,883 112,846
117,200 126,762
169,927 178,941
110,261 131,692
B
Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force
283,443 264,138 298,057 297,082
101,857
91,239 103,475 121,973
127,403
117,448 125,356 132,193
163,960 228,990 183,636 214,920
153,223 112,667 137,708 153,374
28,387 32,296
39,221
285,000
557,221
110,000
122,868
143,000
151,953
425,000 458,264
182,000
43,500
177,491
58,575
C
Air Raid Precautions
T
1
50,000 338,065
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Military Contribution
7
District Office (North)
8
District (South)
3,259,338
20,625
8,669
9
Education Department
1,152,875
10
Fire Brigade
11A
Harbour Department
11B
Air Services
12
Imports and Exports Office
688,566
13
Kowloon Canton Railway
656,696
3,863,769
24,845
13,753
1,662,169 1,707,558 1,745,984 1,866,627
232,826 315,431 305,017 297,080
307,897
757,198 999,605 962,648 1,020,784 997,997
93,897 26,691
11,546 13,900
903,182 1,031,294 695,074 723,840
826,405 879,211 873,467 886,381
22,006
11,151
4,932,598 6,569,239 5,694,559 5,068,139 4,768,943
22,958
11,042
4,281,240 5,586,415
5,880,724 7,097,898
65,758
67,365
60,061
76,712
75,107
69,500
78,948
47,116
41,790
43,911
48,208
48,190
63,000
48,474
1,781,164
1,702,205
328,282 265,882
958,087 976,610
63,600 50,957
364,105 325,530
989,167 920,864
1,861,900
293,163 328,893 390,000 324,307
1,071,596
1,035,968 1,295,000
41,304
51,930 109,000
428,610 458,007 460,000 477,986
726,174 831,129 1,250,000 981,903
2,034,562 2,200,000 2,318,865
1,324,320
191,357
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Legal Departments
482,855
Supreme Court
133,287
173,797 185,316
172,096 244,996
249,033 192,181
227,987
234,820
240,000
Attorney General's Office
34,690
47,401
50,633
38,717
58,805
63,433
40,919
66,666
79,865
82,000
Crown Solicitor's Office
43,640
47,912
55,253
65,004
56,115
41,789
45,355
44,532
57,718
67,000
Official Receiver's Office
10,117
23,164
20,711
18,806
27,126
22,832
20,127
24,884
21,270
26,500
Land Office
26,118
38,369
42,164
37,136
66,100
52,897
54,529
51,650
67,993
71,000
15
Magistracy, (Hong Kong)
1,814
1,961
1,990
2,088
69,374
78,216
60,348
62,113
74,495
112,000
74,739
16
Magistracy, (Kowloon)
1,971
2,086
1,893
1,733
32,405
38,782
38,489
56,871
51,766
67,000
55,704
17
Medical Department
867,293
1,186,250
1,336,924
1,285,571 1,414,082 1,505,264 1,403,606 1,584,327 2,018,137
2,400,000 2,516,267
18
Miscellaneous Services
1,304,715
19
Pensions
20
Police Force
21A
Post Office
1,733,444 2,211,126 1,580,944 1,504,550 1,960,654 1,701,858 1,485,703 1,628,720
796,754 1,080,822 1,541,441 1,545,270 1,876,565 1,748,117 1.555,605 2,287,746 2,559,810 2,880,000 2,970,000
1,956,798 2,569,664 2,768,161 2,520,708 2,836,532 2,808,048 2,435,772 2,830,630 3,109,696 3,200,000 3,441,827
289,516 353,690 406,215 457,655 486,367 443,264 435,086 497,480 787,756 820,000 951,030
1,736,000 1,633,393
21B
Wireless
412,651
Radio Traffic Office
129,998
148,678
152,214
159,200
158,301
159,841
162,478
181.934
1
75,000
211,500
Wireless
84.952
210
Broadcasting
22
Prison Department
23
Public Debt
24A
Public Works Department
512,592
1,324,499
1,873,280
677,585 778,120 765,778 853,873 829,799 748,120 884,851 1,021,593
1,588,118 1,894,291 1,666,705 1,218,695 1,233.583 1,410,431 1,390,831 1,371,231
2,033,300 2,306,678 2,116,882 2,222,874
2,304,641 1,935,386 2,245,004 2,436,112 2,150,000
905,000 921,140
1,351,631 1,332,081
1,911,688
288,398
24B
Water Works
25
Public Works Recurrent
A.--General
1,464,559
1,564,118
1,900,620 1,581,927
1,553,607 1,688,240
1,809,312 1,391,103
1,768,370
1,900,000
B. Water Works
26
Royal Observatory
35,141
27
Sanitary Department
713,184
29
22
28
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
11,483
54,133 74,138
868,950 851,752
18,896 21,808
68,185 63,165 60,587
56,334
846,287 1,024,574 1,051,797 920,862
28,608 175,321
127,624 141,831
71,416 83,970
929,189 1.009,439
139,948 130,757
|1,300,600 | 967,907
92,500 91,190
1,040,000 1,148,034
137.000 125,653
312.241
Stores Department
30
Treasury, Ete.
31
Public Works Extraordinary
15,069
2,125,975
34,189
2,850,499
71,281
2,374,932
Naval Arsenal Yard and Kellet Island
92,138 286,511 235,752 206,414
1,967,860 3,292,449 3,784,166 2,801,919
1,000,000
459,149
249,412 301,693 307,500
2,052,900
2,150,000 1,510,298
263,934
2,333,235
Total
21,983,256 28,119,640 31,160,774 32,050,284 31,122,715 31,149,157 28,291,636
20,518,523 82,111,222
35,155,355 38,502,760
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