Table VI.

IEAD 32. WAR EXPENDITURE, 1941-42.

398

10

ESTIMATE.

NOTES.

A.

War Taxation Department

310,018

B.

Extraordinary Local Defence

1. Naval

883,867

2. Military

494,091

3. Civil

4,000,000

C.

Contribution to Imperial Government

1. Admiralty

2. War Department

4,700,000 520,000

3. Cash

D.

Censorship and Economic Warfare

661,820

E.

Internment of Enemy Aliens

F.

Department of Information

150,000 49,705

G.

Shipping Control Board

H.

Food Control

I.

War Supplies Board

J.

K.

L.

M.

Exchange Control

Anti-Sabotage Precautions

High Cost of Living Allowances Miscellaneous

10,000 133,433 5,000

32,340

100,000

200,000

50,000

Personal Emoluments and Other Charges of War Taxation Depart-

ment.

Pay and allowances of mobilized members of Naval Volunteer Force: expenditure in excess of $40,000 under Head 6B, Naval Volunteer Force, to be debited here.

Expenditure in excess of $150,000 under Head 6A, Volunteer

Defence Force, to be debited here.

For completion of programme of construction of tunnels, concrete pens, etc., for protection of civil population against air attack.

For construction of vessels to be presented to Admiralty. For construction of vessels to be presented to War Department. Possibility of cash gifts depends on financial position during course

of the year.

Personal Emoluments and Other Charges of Censorship Department

and Department of Economic Warfare.

Maintenance of internees who have been transferred to Ceylon. Expenses shared by Hong Kong Government and Ministry of Infor-

mation, London.

Personal Emoluments and Other Charges of Shipping Control Board. Expenses of Food Controller's Department.

Expenses of War Supplies Board.

Anti-sabotage precautions for shipping.

High cost of living allowance to lower grade Government employees. Various items of war expenditure.

Personal Emoluments and Other Charges of Exchange Control

Department.

Total

$12;300,274

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