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exchanged for a post of Senior Executive Officer Class II. are no changes in the number of clerks employed but three temporary clerks have been recruited to replace two Clerks Class I who have retired and whose posts have been abolished and one Clerk Class II who has been transferred to another department. Personal emoluments show an increase of $28,979.
The increase in recurrent expenditure of $7,485
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is chiefly accounted for by an extra $5,760 for this Colony's share of home expenditure and $1,800 for travelling expenses consequent on the increased activities of the department.
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The total increased expenditure for this Head is
Head 4. Civil Aviation Department.
Estimate 1951/52.
Revised Estimate 1950/51.
$839,958
Approved Estimate 1950/51. Actual Expenditure 1949/50.
927,993 1,136,379
773,392
The increase of $44,692 in personal emoluments is caused solely by changes in personnel and increments, for the establishment of the department remains unchanged.
Of the increase of $14,687 in recurrent expenditure $9,237 is in respect of the rent of quarters which were designated as departmental quarters in 1950 and for which the department must now pay. An extra $7,450 is required to cover the payment of flying fees for seven members of the staff who required flying experience to keep their aeronautical licences valid. Other minor increases are more than off-set by small reductions elsewhere.
There is a considerable reduction in expenditure on special items. of the provision of $360,800 for 1950/51 a small re-vote of $5,000 is all that is needed for some air traffic control equipment.
The total expenditure therefore shows a net reduction of 196,421.
Head 5.
Colonial Development and Welfare Schemes.
Estimate 1951/52.
$586,350
Revised Estimate 1950/51.
474,833
Approved Estimate 1950/51.
570,700
Actual Expenditure 1949/50.
1,044,108
Actual expenditure in 1950/51 was well below the amount originally anticipated to be spent in that year. Consequently it has been necessary to re-vote some of the provisions previously made. These include $80,000 for piers in the New Territories, $79,300 for upper air reporting stations, $70,000 for irrigation in the New Territories, and
50,000 for agricultural village depots. The reclamation scheme at Aberdeen was completed during 1950 but a new scheme for the mechanization of the fishing flet was approved during the year and expenditure of $35,200 is anticipated on this project in 1951/52. Further consideration is being given to the original scheme for a Fisheries Research Station and only a token sum of $1,000 is shown.
Estimated expenditure of all schemes amounts to $586,350, an increase of $15,650 on 1950/51. All this expenditure is covered by equivalent receipts under revenue.