233
Welfare Officer, the grants wore scaled down to the figuros now appoaring in the Estimates totalling $733,530.
Head 7. District Office, Now Territories
Estimato 1948/49
Revised Estimate 1947/48 Approved Estimate 1947/48 Actual Expenditure 1946/47
$371,823
253,513
213,135 162,830
The Heads "District Office North" and "District Office South" have been combined under one Head. In the comparativo tablc given above, the total expenditure under the two old Heads is thorofore included. A sum of $35,000 has been provided for local Public Works as compared with a combined total of $18,000 in 1947/48. It has been found that much useful rehabilitation work in the way of repairs to paths, bridges and irrigation schomes can be carried out in the villagos under the supervisi of the District Staff and the Votc has been increased to onable more to be done during the coming year.
Head 8. Education Department
Estimato 1948/49
Revised Estimate 1917/48 Approved Estimato 1947/48 Actual Expendituro 1946/47
$12,084,338
6,883,721 7,378,025 3,944,499
The incrcasc in the numbers of subsidized vernacular schools has necessitated the appointment of one additional Inspector of Vernacular Schools and onc woman Inspector of Vernacular Schools.
The regrading between ccrtificated masters and assistant masters, and between certificated mistresses and assistant mistresses, is consequent upon the recommendations of the Salaries Commission.
Provision is made under Sub Hoad 6 of Other Charges for assistance to former members of the local forces whose University education was interruptod by the outbreak of hostilitios.
The increase in the Sub Head "Subsistence Allowances to Uncertificated Teachers in Training" has been provided for because it has been found that uncertificated teachers are not prepared to undergo the necessary training for their certificates if, while doing so, they only roceive a subsistence allowance of a smaller amount than their salaries as uncertificated teachers. To induce them to take the highor qualification and to obviato a shortage of certificated tcachers in the future, it will be necessary to continue their existing rates of salary while they are in training.
Sub Head 24 includes a grant of $1,000,000 which represents half the cost of the construction of an additional school which Wah Yan College propose to establish in Kowloon to accommodate 1,000 students. It also provides for grants representing half the cost of extensions to four other schools.
Hoad 9. Fire Brigade
Estimate 1948/49
Revised Estimate 1947/48 Approved Estimate 1947/48 Actual Expenditure 1946/47
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$1,098,075 610,480 630,436 428,646