Governor
1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1913.
Expenditure.
$
82,051.05
Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature 79,977.73
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
Audit Department
Treasury
Harbour Master's Department
Royal Observatory Miscellaneous Services
Judicial and Legal Departments
Police and Prison Departments Medical Departments
Sanitary Department
41,674.04
30,817.89
66,161.92
+ *
*
228,516.80
24,255.49
387,783.79
253,636.18
909,421.09
227,307.03
331,234.55
Botanical and Forestry Department Education ..
Military Expenditure
Public Works Department
Do.
Do.
Post Office
Recurrent
Extraordinary
Kowloon-Canton Railway
*
Charge on account of Public Debt
Pensions
Charitable Services
TOTAL
•
+
*
48,745.88 269,164.33 1,615,683.32 367,544.52 599,843.24 1,247,689.34 622,587.51
245,808.58
672,961.36
280,230.88
♥
*
24,916.41
$8,658,012.93
The deficit on the year's working was $145,704, and the balance of assets and liabilities showed on the 31st December a sum of $2,659,426 in the Colony's favour.
The following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1909-1913-
Revenue. Expenditure. 1909 $ $ 1910 6,822,967 6,542,839 1911 6,960,861 6,907,113 1912 7,497,231 7,077,177 1913 8,180,694 7,202,553 8,512,308 8,658,012The capital expenditure on the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway during 1913 was $236,806, chiefly in connection with the erection of a terminal station. The total expenditure on this account amounted at the end of the year to a sum of $13,521,231.
The amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,732, and in addition the advances by the Crown Agents for railway construction amounted at the end of the year to £188,518. Against these items there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £164,188 and there is a balance of £220,000 unpaid in respect of the loan to the late Viceroy of Wuchang.
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