3
ganisation, it has been consider-
ed desirable to show the cost of operating these two organisations under a separate and new Head of expenditure.
A.-Fish Marketing Organisation
Estimate 1949-50
Revised Estimate 1948-49
Approved Estimate 1948-
49
Actual Expenditure 1947-
48
$73,927
sary
two
and Provision is made for poof sub-officers and 20 new posts of firemen. The re- personal sult is an increase in emoluments of $68,678.
Of the increase of $40,615 in Other Charges, an additional $26,000 is required for Stores and Equipment, $7,000 for Uniforms required by the additional staff and $5,000 for the larger fleet of vehicles to be kept in commis- sion.
Under Special Expenditure, the sum of $31,500 is provided for the alarm system, and a new installation of the new street fire head is shown
sub-
under Other
The staff of this organisation has been detached from the per- sonnel of the Fisheries Depart-Charges for the maintenance of ment and the Directorate of the this system when it is installed former Development Secretariat. in the coming year. It is not therefore possible to give comparative figures of expendi- ture.
B.-Vegetable Marketing Organisation
Estimate 1949-50
Estimate 1949-50
$2,625,715
Revised Estimate
1948-49
803,000
Approved Estimate
1948-49
245
334,694
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
75,489
Head 15. Inland Revenue Department
Estimate 1949-50 Revised Estimate 1948-
149
Approved Estimate
1948-49
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
$ 815,205
600,000
672,665
311,569
Part of the increase of $140,690 in personal emoluments is ac- counted for by the transfer of the Estate Duty Office from the The net increase on the headTreasury to the Inland Revenue
is $86,029.
Head 11. Fisheries
Department. The department is still expanding its activities and this is reflected in the increase in establishment
of one Assessor Grade II and two Taxation Offi-
Department
Estimate 1949-50
$121,593 cers.
$76,852
Revised Expenditure
Revised Estimate 1948-49
1948-49
60,000
Approved Expenditure
1948-49
139,469
71,737
Approved Estimate 1948-
49
Actual Expenditure 1947-
48
The personnel of this depart- ment has been detached from the Agriculture Department and the Directorate of the former Deve- lopment Secretariat so it is not possible to give comparative figures of expenditure. In addi- tion provision is made for a De- velopment Officer who has been engaged on contract during 1948- 49 in connection with the Whole- sale Vegetable Marketing Or- ganisation.
Head 8. District Office,
New Territories
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
The increase of $14,760 in Other Charges reflects the effect of the amalgamation of portions of three sub-departments into a single department.
The total effect however is to reduce expenditure on this head by $17,876.
Head 12. Forestry Department
Estimate 1949-50
Revised Estimate 1948-
49
Approved
Estimate
Estimate 1949-50
$336,790
1948-49
Revised Estimate 1948-
49
320,000
Approved Estimate
1948-49
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
373,863
150,836
Minor changes in staff are res- ponsible for a reduction in per- sonal emoluments of $10,633.
Under Other Charges, Local Public Works has been reduced by $25,000 and the sub-head for Upkeep of Grounds of Island House, Taipo, has been deleted as a result of the transfer to the Gardens Department of a Gar- dener formerly employed by the District Commissioner.
Head 9. Education Department
Estimate 1949-50
$5,085,335 + $7,979,765 under Subventions.
Revised Estimate
1948-49
Approved Estimate
1948-49
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
$ 429,896
A small increase of $1,850 in Other Charges arises out of the transfer of the Estate Duty Office. Head 16. Kowloon-Canton
Railway
Estimate 1949-50 Revised Estimate 1948-
49 Approved Estimate 1948-
49
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
$5,443,695
5,000,000
6,650,380
2,995,237
The General Manager of the Kowloon Canton Railway has effected a considerable retrench- ment in staff. Sixty posts have been abolished and two posts, one of Assistant Engineer and one of Draughtsman Class 460,000
III, have been replaced by two lower-paid 513,248 Class II
posts of Assistant Land Surveyor and Tracer. Certain officers have had their duties re- graded and the only increase in establishment is two new posts of Ticket Inspector. The effect of introducing Ticket Inspectors on trains has been so successful in preventing the loss of revenue that the proposed additional ex- penditure on the two new posts is expected to be amply recouped in additional revenue.
176,066
Although personal emoluments show an increase of $37,495 there has been no increase in staff. 71 Foresters who were formerly paid under an Other Charge sub- head will in future be paid under the temporary staff vote. In con- sequence Other Charges show a considerable reduction. There is, however,
sub-head under which $17,000 is provided for the experimental develop- mental development of forestry lots in the Sai Kung area.
Total expenditure on the Head is reduced by $83,352.
one.
new
Head 13. Garden
Department
Estimate 1949-50 Revised Estimate 1948-
49
11,500,000
Approved Estimate
12,124,13
·
1948-49
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
$349,381
169,723
There has been an increase of
Several economies have also been made under Other Charges and in practically all cases the provision for 1949-50 is less than for the current financial year. The chief exception is for Mis- cellaneous Allowances which has been increased in order to pro- vide for the revised rates of cost of living allowances recently au- thorised. The nett reduction in Other Charges amounts to $1,026,746.
for.
Under Special Expenditure fur- 400,000 ther provision in the five years plan for relaying and renewing 493,576 the permanent way
is provided Other items cover a build- 6,444,818
ing programme, the major item Considerable changes have been only four posts in the establish- shops costing $190,000 which are of which is the repair of work- made in the establishment of ment. Two of these posts are for Masters and Mistresses
required in order arising gardeners,
to provide one of whom was out of the proposed building pro- formerly shown under the Police quantities of machines and tools secure accommodation for large gramme for schools. The increase] Force Head and the other pro- in classes also results in additions vided for under Other Charges in
which are beginning to arrive to attendant and
from the United Kingdom. The menial staff. the estimates of the District Consequently personal emoluments Office, New
sum of $180,000 is also provided Territories. A have risen by more than 10 per Woman Clerk and Motor Driver
to cover part of the cost of pro- cent from $3,557,998 to $4,049,935. shown under temporary staff are
viding adequate railway facilities for the new Wo Hop Shek Ceme- necessary as a result of separat-tery which it is planned to open Head 10. Fire Brigade
ing this department from the in the New Territories and for former Development Secretariat.
which a further sum of $500,000 $1,184,104
A reduction of $174,500 under is provided under Public Works Special Expenditure indicate Extraordinary. 850,000 that the programme of rehabili- tation of Government grounds un-
the Expenditure on
Kowloon Canton Railway for 1949-50 shows 1,098,075 attended during the occupation
a reduction of $1,206,685 on the Mears is nearing completion. Con-
current year's estimates. 569,476 Sequently expenditure under this As a result of the decision to Head has fallen by $144,195.
Estimate 1949-50 Revised Estimate
1948-49
Approved Estimate
1948-49
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
....
keep in commission two fire
gines which
were replaced by new models in 1948-49 a small
increase in staff has been neces-
Head 14. Hong Kong Defence Force
Head 17. Labour Department
Estimate 1949-50
$286,335