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EXPENDITURE
Abstract of actual and estimated expenditure for the period 1947 to 1951
HEAD OF EXPENDITURE.
Actual Expenditure
1947-48
$
Actual Expenditure 1948-49
REVENUE
Approved
Estimate
1949-50
Approved Estimate for 1950-51
DETAILS OF REVENUE
Approved Estimate 1949-50
Estimate
1950-51
$
$
$
1. H.E. the Governor
3. Audit Department
240,574
212,680
231,297
230,285
$
2. Agriculture Department
196,720
357,814
730,228
813,135
1-DUTIES
175,078
247,528
243,807
247,023
4. Civil Aviation Department
254,590
566,041
834,430
5. Colonial Secretariat and Legislature
691,378
954,861
1,098,644
1,136,379 1,177,833
1. Import duty on hydrocarbon oils
5,750,000
2.
Import duty on liquor
6,000,000
7,000,000 6,000,000
(1)
3.
Import duty on perfumed spirits
250,000
6. Department of Commerce and In-
dustry
554,370
1,037,651
1,288,179
1,236,167
4.
Import duty on tobacco
16,250,000
5.
Duty on locally-manufactured liquor
2,500,000
7. Co-operatives and Marketing
6.
Duty on proprietary medicines and toilet preparations.
2,500,000
300,000 (2) 18,000,000
(3)
3,000,000 (1) 3,000,000 (2)
A Fish Marketing Organiza-
tion
73,927
79,322
7.
Duty on table waters
1,000,000
2,000,000 (1) (4)
20222
9. Education Department
14. Hong Kong Defence Force
B-Vegetable Marketing Or-
ganization
8. District Office New Territories
10. Fire Brigade
11. Fisheries Department
12. Forestry Department
13. Gardens Department
A-Hong Kong Regiment B-Hong Kong Naval Force C-Hong Kong Auxiliary Air
Force
84,084
76,225
Total
34,250,000
39,300,000
150,836
365,267
365,990
383,208
6,444,816
11,703,081
5,085,335
5,443,781
2-RATES
569,476
947,603
1,184,104
1,382,027
71,737
62,602
121,593
106,641
1.
Hong Kong
10,000,000
176,066
483,086
429,896
410,230
2.
Kowloon
5,500,000
13,000,000 8,500,000
169,723
413,949
349,381
341,487
3. New Territories
16,300
72,775
620,392
2,285,303
1,049,316
Total
15,516,300
18,000 (5)
21,518,000
000
(5)
(5)
2,714
47,267
209,282
568,567
135,930
123,400
3-INTERNAL REVENUE
15. Inland Revenue Department
311,569
593,096
815,205
889,555
16. Kowloon Canton Railway
2,995,237
4,361,198
5,443,695
5,007,031
1.
Bets and sweeps tax
3,500,000
17. Labour Department
136,888
236, 845
286,335
291,119
2.
Business registration tax
4,000,000 (6) 6,000,000
18. Legal Department
308,814
524,189
372,874
657,443
3.
Dance halls tax
375,000
(7) 500,000 (6)
4.
Earnings and profits tax
19. Magistracies
A-Hong Kong Magistracy
92,835
116,389
130,099
135,798
5.
Entertainment tax
B-Kowloon Magistracy
63,313
104,987
112,782
114,509
6.
Estate duty
40,000,000 3,500,000 2,000,000
44,000,000 (8)
5,000,000 (6)
2,000,000
20. Marine Department
3,368,156
21. Medical Department
7,023,423
4,275,932 12,924,505
4,934,137
6,169,258
7.
Meals and liquor tax
2,750,000
3,000,000
(6)
22. Miscellaneous Services
60,763,921
57,386,656
12,749,022 37,832,100
12,668,351
8.
Stamp duties
9,400,000
12,000,000
(4)
37,521,500
23. Pensions
5,922,336
24. Police Force
6,627,702
6,499,716 10,715,689
6,720,000 12,633,722
7,870,000 15,553,762
Total
61,525,000
76,500,000
25. Post Office, Broadcasting, and Tele-
4-LICENCES, FINES, AND FORFEITURES
communications
A-Post Office
1,668,270
26. Prisons Department
B-Broadcasting
C-Telecommunications
27. Public Debt
201,632
615,615
2,514,370
2,932,582 242,614 784,289 3,030,449
1,862,285
4,009,900
3,664,958 345,899 979,314 3,934,617 5,486,841
4,195,644
A-LICENCES
422,833
1.
Air services
3,500
5,000
(9)
955,979
2.
Arms
30,000
30,000
4,268,341
3.
Auctioneers
1,800
1,800
5,084,631
4.
Bakehouses
9,000
9,000
28. Public Relations Office
56,023
72,494
141,808
192,042
5.
Banks
600,000
700,000
(3)
29. Public Works Department
2,487,870
3,643,255
4,349,180
5,434,368
6.
Billiard tables
5,700
6,000
(3)
30. Public Works Recurrent
6,234,522
9,747,900
12,632,000
16,633,000
7.
Boats
250,000
350,000
(10)
31. Public Works Non-Recurrent
886,055
2,604,141
19,618,000
32. Rating and Valuation Department.
161,644
196,901
33. Registrar General's Department
166,750
29,184,563 212,259 196,351
8.
Cafes
5,500
6,000 (3)
9. Cattle, goats, and swine
9,000
5,000 (11)
10.
Chinese boarding houses
14,000
20,000
(9)
34. Royal Observatory
199,414
35. Sanitary Department and Urban
Council
1,761,802
291,386
4,313,058
404,588
5,724,186
415,046
11. Companies, local registers
25,000
25,000
12. Dairies
2,000
2,000
7,444,297
13. Dance halls
7,200
7,200
36. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
A-Secretariat for Chinese
Affairs
B-Social Welfare Office
C-District Watch Force
14. Dangerous goods
30,000
35,000
15. Dangerous and offensive trades
25,000
27,000 (9)
99
(9)
179,666 1,244,244 52,709
172,759 1,005,033
177,111
187,031
16. Dogs
70,000
70,000
812,176
756,341
17.
Electric signs
250,000
(7)
183,343
186,069
168,131
37. Statistical Department
19.
18. Emigration passage brokers
Factories
3,200
3,200
100,000
100,000
A-Statistical Department
114,606
131,188
131,707
20. Ferries
414,000
422,400
(9)
B-Registration Branch
297,560
21.
Fishing stakes and stations
800
800
38. Stores Department
8,175,983
7,874,312
39. Subventions
199,396
878,547
6,591,432 13,245,721
5,564,002
22. Food factories
20,000
25,000
(9)
40. Department of Supplies and Dis-
14,326,900 | 23. Food-preserving establishments
24. Forestry, New Territories
25,000
23,000
(11)
4,000
4,000
tribution
680,734
731,968
792,486
832,349
25.
Game
20,000
30,000 (9)
41. Supreme Court
242,078
329,041
422,381
448,103
26.
Hawkers
500,000
500,000
42. Treasury
754,906
726,224
780,245
801,347
27. Hydrocarbon oils
30,000
30,000
43. Colonial Development and Welfare
28.
Junks
80,000
80,000
Schemes
219,435
2,316,480
570,700
29.
Laundries
5,000
6,300
(9)
44. Custodian of Property
118,637
57,993
42,600
42,156
30. Liquor
850,000
900,000
(9) (10)
45. Quartering Authority
204,199
31.
Marine-store dealers
35,000
46. Essential Services Corps
60,000 (9)
185,851
32.
Marriage
24,000
Development Secretariat
33.
Massage
1,800
24,000
1,000 (8)
A--Directorate
54,123
48,493
34.
Milk shops
2,700
3,000 (9)
B-Fisheries Research Station. District Office, South
12,533
19,133
35.
113,260
Miscellaneous
36. Money changers
12,000
12,000
60,000
55,000 (8)
Total
127,701,174 159,954,023
179,924,312
200,839,083
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