Head 4.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT
Head 4.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY
Sub-beads
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DEPARTMENT
1 Personal Emoluments
Other Charges.
296
23
Approved Estimate, 1939.
Estimate, 1940-41.
明
$
89,853
122,818
2 Brushwood Clearing
3 Conveyance allowances
4 Expenses of Collections
7,000
8,750
3,000
4,000
(1)
200
250
5 Extraction of Timber
2,500
3,125
6 Field allowances to Foresters
800
1,250
(1)
7 Forestry
19,500
24,375
8 Forestry Reserve, Taipo Kau: Maintenance and Formation
3,000
3,750
9 Fuel and Light
400
625
(2)
10 Incidental Expenses
400
500
11 Library
450
850
12 Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds........
11,500
16,688
13 Protection of Plantations
14 Scenic Development
15 Transport..................
1,500
2,500
2,500
1,700
2,125
16 Uniforms and Accoutrements
17 Upkeep of Car
Tools and Nursery Supplies
Total Other Charges
1,250
1,250 (5)
1,000
1,250
600
(6)
54,800
73,288
Special Expenditure.
18 One new Typewriter
Planting Flowering Shrubs
One Motor Mowing Machine
Six Small Mowing Machines
Temporary Quarters for Forest Protection Staff.
Total Special Expenditure
Total Botanical & Forestry Department......
Personal Emoluments.
Details of the foregoing.
2,000
2,000
360
(7)
(8)
(9)
600
2.700
7,300
360
151,953
196,466
NUMBERS.
1939 1940-41
1
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)
14,097
18,382
(10)
6,818
9,118
(10)
Do.,
Residential Allowance
120
...
(11)
Junior Clerical Service :-
I
2
Class II ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually) Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160,
3 of $50 and 2 of $100)
2,850
3,788
(10)
1,466
2,870
(12)
1
Supervisor, *(£260 to £350 by 5 of £10 and 2 of
£20)
5,600
Do.,
Language Allowance....
120
} (13)
1
Assistant Supervisor, ($1,800 to $2,400 by $120
annually)
2,120
Do..
Language Allowance
120
(13)
1
Botanical Assistant, ($2,400 to $4,200 by 1 of $120
and 7 of $240 annually)
3,030 (12)
Herbarium Assistant, ($500 to $650 by $25 anually)
629
813
(10)
Do.,
2
ง
212
212
Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially).......
Rent AllowARCE...
Messengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)
Do., Rent Allowances at $24 each
Motor Drivers. ($550 to $650 by $30 annually) ||Storeman, ($500 to $950 by $50 annually)
Assistant Storemen, ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially)
Carried forward
(1) Considered necessary.
(2) Includes provision for coal previously under
Harbour Department.
(3) Includes provision under previous sub-head "Tools and Nursery Supplies", manure supply and upkeep of Queen's College Recreation Ground. (4) Previously provided under Special Expenditure,
"Planting Flowering Shrubs".
(5) Considered sufficient.
(6) Incorporated under Sub-head 12.
(7) For Lai Chi Kok new sub-office.
(8) Provision made under Other Charges, Sub-head 14.
(9) Non-recurrent.
(10) Stipulated increments.
(11) From 15.12.40.
(12) One new post.
(13) Transferred to next page.
192
240
24
30
324
396
(10)
48
60
1,300
1,626
554
767
(10)
552
690
36,814
41,930