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Comparative Statement of the Estimated and Actual
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Expenditure of the Colony of Hong Kong for the Year 1949/50.
Heads and Sub-heads.
Estimated.
Actual.
Over the Estimate.
Under the Estimate.
Supplement- ary Votes.
Special Warrants Nos.
$
$
24,625,537.53!
$
30,613.933
Brought Forward
35. SANITARY DEPARTMENT AND URBAN COUNCIL, Contd.
Brought Forward
Other Charges,--Contd.
Sub-heads:-
148,702,237 148,418,279.45 24,341,579.98
3,340,586 3,288,531.30
52,054.70
54,538.
7 Coffins and biers
5,000
415.60
8 Conservancy
87,000
63,743.59
9 Feeding of dogs
10,000
10 Fuel, light, and power
172,000
9,698.30 99,988.88
4,584.40 23,256.41 301.70 72,011.12
11 Incidental expenses
6,000
6,818.27
818.27
12 Publications
13 Rent of offices and quarters
3,000 10,000
1,553.90
14 Re-settlement of squatters
120,000
2,173.84 88,489.13
15 Rewards
500
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16 Rural sanitation
17 Scavenging gear
18 Stores and equipment
10,000 150,000 60,000
4,712.21
153,163.53
3,163.53
53,679.89
19 Travelling expenses
46,000
60,788.19
14,788.19
Explanatory Remarks.
Fewer free issues of coffins. Fewer stores required.
Economy exercised.
820
182
Additional
expenditure
by
Health
1,446.10 7,826.16 31,510.87
18,648
81
500.00
No rewards paid.
5,287.79
Inspectorate transferred from Medical Department.
Fewer publications ordered.
Fewer quarters provided.
Fewer stores used.
Fewer projects undertaken.
3,550
176
More stores required.
6,320.11
Fewer tools purchased.
30,000
162
Additional expenditure
by
Health
20 Uniforms
231,500
21 Upkeep of vehicles
400,000
117,958.93 288,450.07
113,541.07 111,549.93
Special Expenditure
22 Garage equipment
1,100
418.87
23 Life-boats
7,500
7,200.00
24 Meat-marking equipment
1,800
1,716.28
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681.13 300.00
83.72
25 Meat vans
69,200
40,240.00
26 Motor cycles
10,000
28,960.00
10,000.00
27 Nightsoil barges
250,000
141,500.00
28 Refuse barges
360,000
153,333.33
108,500.00
29 Refuse vans
303,000
286,418.99
206,666.67
30 Street washing vans
70,000
5,350.27
16,581.01
64,649.73
Carried Forward
5,724,186 4,876,343.37
18,769.99
866,612.62
107,556
Carried Forward
148,702,237 148,418,279.45 24,341,579.98
24,625,537.53
30,613,933
Inspectorate transferred from Medical Department.
Fewer uniforms issued. Lower costs and repairs.
Less equipment purchased Lower cost.
Reduced order on grounds of economy. Account not received from Crown
Agents.
Order not completed by 31.3.50.
do.
Reduced order due to higher costs. Vans not received by 313.50,
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