6
EXPENDITURE
Abstract of Actual, Estimated, and Revised Estimates of Expenditure for the Period 1946 to 1950
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HEAD OF EXPENDITURE.
Actual Expenditure
Actual Expenditure
Approved Estimate
Approved Estimate
for 1946-47
1947-48
1948-49
1949-50
1. H.E. the Governor
$
2. Agriculture Department
185,980
240,574
218,979
231,297
3. Audit Department
108,059
196,720
446,085
730,228
4. Civil Aviation Department
97,750
175,078
263,401
243,807
5. Colonial Secretariat and Legislature
75,599
254,590
762,169
834,430
6. Department of Commerce and In-
dustry
487,617
691,378
860,169
1,098,644
475,188
7. Co-operatives and Marketing
554,370
1,220,714
1,288,179
A-Fish Marketing Organiza-
tion
B-Vegetable Marketing Or-
ganization
73,927
8. District Office New Territories
9. Education Department
10. Fire Brigade
84,084
104,071
150,836
373,863
365,990
3,944,499
6,444,816
12,124,138
5,085,335
11. Fisheries Department
12. Forestry Department
428,646
569,476
1,098,075
1,184,104
48,628
71,737
139,469
121,593
141,882
176,066
13. Gardens Department
14. Hong Kong Defence Force
513,248
429,896
121,783
169,723
493,576
349,381
A-Hong Kong Regiment B-Hong Kong Naval Force C-Hong Kong Air Force
28,791
72,775
331,444
2,285,303
3,885
2,714
3,250
209,282
15. Inland Revenue Department 16. Kowloon Canton Railway
135,930
9,423
311,569
672,665
815,205
1,461,980
2,995,237
17. Labour Department
6,650,380
5,443,695
89,444
136,888
18. Legal Department
262,029
286,335
314,266
308,814
548,140
19. Magistracies
372,874
A-Hong Kong Magistracy
70,738
92,835
111,805
B-Kowloon Magistracy
130,099
54,525
63,313
20. Marine Department
103,842
112,782
1,841,715
3,368,156
21. Medical Department
4,622,802
4,934,137.
5,624,554
7,023,423
15,775,248
22. Miscellaneous Services
12,749,022
25,343,888
60,763,921
29,766,560
37,832,100
23. Pensions
6,825,816
5,922,336
6,013,000
6,720,000
24. Police Force
6,056,811
6,627,702
10,428,681
12,633,722
25. Post Office, Broadcasting, and Tele-
communications
A-Post Office
526,876
1,668,270
2,914,829
3,664,958
B-Broadcasting
120,095
201,632
233,054
345,899
C-Telecommunications
491,601
615,615
1,077,393
979,314
26. Prisons Department
27. Public Debt
1,608,930
2,514,370
3,517,566
3,934,617
6,071,835
1,862,285
5,512,441
5,486,841
28. Public Relations Office
43,375
56,023
78,464
141,808
29. Public Works Department
2,691,884
2,487,870
4,248,217
4,349,180
30. Public Works Recurrent
3,885,820
6,234,522
10,779,500
12,632,000
31. Public Works Extraordinary
1,321
886,055
10,638,500
19,618,000
32. Rating and Valuation Department.
184,292
196,901
33. Registrar General's Department
166,750
34. Royal Observatory
109,987
199,414
353,172
404,588
35. Sanitary Department and Urban
Council
1,181,406
1,761,802
5,453,300
5,724,186
36. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
A-Secretariat
for Chinese
Affairs
B-Social Welfare Office
130,917 1,870,280
C-District Watch Force
179,666 1,244,244 52,709
181,314
177,111
1,332,520
812,176
204,199
186,069
37. Statistical Department
121,929
131,188
38. Stores Department
10,081,354
8,175,983
6,922,550
6,591,432
39. Subventions
116,244
199,396
750,730
13,245,721
40. Department of Supplies and Dis-
tribution
768,359
680,734
751,394
792,486
41. Supreme Court
220,719
242,078
345,125
422,381
42. Treasury
841,907
754,906
688,108
780,245
43. Custodian of Property
773,302
118,637
61,020
42,600
44. Colonial Development and Welfare
Schemes
2,316,480
Development Secretariat
A-Directorate
45,341
54,123
100,376
B-Fisheries Research Station.
12,533
30,380
District Office, South
58,759
113,260
Quartering Commandant's Office
13,715
Reparations Claims Office
22,826
Total
85,622,391
127.701.174 150,284,105 179,924,312