ture on houses and house allowances; and other miscellaneous items. Military Expenditure was larger than the estimate by $41,788 on account of the Revenue for 1916 having been under-estimated. The Harbour Department spent $15,123 extra, chiefly for acquisition of buoys in the Harbour and repairs to Launches; and the items Public Works Recurrent and Extraordinary were responsible for an excess of $87,544 between them. Decreases were mostly due to savings on Personal Emoluments and high exchange.
EXPENDITURE
Governor 80,406 Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature 67,600 Secretariat for Chinese Affairs 51,867 Audit Department 31,821 Treasury 205,317 Harbour Master's Department 63,246 Imports & Exports Department 716,011 Royal Observatory 26,891 Miscellaneous Services 3,362,716 Judicial and Legal Departments 244,024 Police and Prison Departments 834,948 Medical Departments 229,490 Sanitary Department 405,032 Botanical and Forestry Department 51,315 Education 331,471 Military Expenditure 2,813,700 Public Works Department Recurrent 402,772 Public Works Department Extraordinary 609,308 Post Office 1,612,835 Kowloon-Canton Railway 324,393 Charge on account of Public Debt 436,196 Pensions 888,896 Charitable Services 261,980 Miscellaneous Services 38,593 TOTAL $ 14,090,828The balance to the good on the year's working was $967,277, and the assets and liabilities account showed on the 31st December a credit balance of $3,268,062.
The following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1913-1917:-
1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 Revenue $ 8,512,308 11,007,273 8,658,012 10,756,225 11,786,106 Expenditure 8,833,387 11,079,915 10,149,267 13,833,387 14,090,828 15,058,105