Appendix A,
FINANCIAL RETURNS FOR THE YEAR 1919.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1919.
HEADS OF REVENUE. Estimates, 1919. Actual Revenue to 31st Dec., 1919. Revenue for same period of preceding Year Increase. Decrease. Light Dues... $45,000 $74,545.18 $2,816.92 $21,728.26 Governor $79,615.00 $77,198.15 $73,307.67 $3,890.48 Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature... $78,066.00 $68,197.84 $60,689.31 $7,508.53 Light Dues, Special Assessment $55,000 $63,973.11 $63,195.94 $20,067.17 Secretariat for Chinese Affairs $57,152.00 $52,634.37 $50,117.57 $1,516.90 Audit Department.. $37,362.00 $35,635.67 $12,840.83 $3,784.85 Licences and Internal Revenue not otherwise specified $13,745,250 $12,865,534.22 $15,201,189.31 $2,335,655.09 Fees of Court or Office, Payments for specific purposes, and Reimbursements in Aid $45,810 $1,013,207.61 $913,793.76 $99,413.85 Treasury... Harbour Master's Department $65,275.00 $63,076.94 $61,078.01 $1,998.93 Imports & Exports Department... $979,888.00 $809,627.24 $747,263.87 $62,363.17 Post Office... $433,300 $460,892.58 $451,586.48 $9,306.10 Royal Observatory Miscellaneous Services.... $24,009.00 $23,450.57 $20,028.24 $3,422.33 $1,711,107.00 $2,532,810.60 $5,676,571.24 $143,760.64 Kowloon Canton Railway $415,200 $490,092.77 $413,274.43 $56,818.34 Judicial and Legal Departments... $264,034.00 $251,434.95 $398,765.27 $147,330.32 Police and Prison Departments... $1,042,879.00 $1,066,820.94 $873,863.95 $192,956.99 Rent of Government Property, Land, and Houses $994,999 $1,041,431.01 $1,010,245.71 $31,185.30 Medical Departments $377,312.00 $254,524.75 $237,537.58 $26,987.17 Interest $48,000 $113,796.43 $99,302.02 $13,496.41 Sanitary Department Botanical and Forestry Department ... Education Miscellaneous Receipts $121,553 $118,539.76 $140,644.61 $22,104.85 HEADS OF EXPENDITURE. Estimates, 1919 Actual Expenditure to 31st Dec., 1919. Expenditure for same period of preceding Year. Increase. Decrease. Military Expenditure Public Works Department... $410,956.00 $384,871.00 $370,169.59 $14,703.41 Do. Recurrent $53,701.00 $54,457.65 $30,456.26 $1,001.39 Do. Extraordinary $398,958.00 $357,806.43 $343,418.50 $14,387.93 $3,128,630.00 $3,580,463.81 $2,788,721.77 $791,742.04 Kowloon-Canton Railway $467,165.00 $391,382.64 $375,302.62 $16,080.02 $702,000.00 $822,509.87 $712,675.37 $109,834.50 Post Office Total, (exclusive of Land Sales) $16,684,315 $16,261,914.67 $18,365,959.18 $2,357,759.94 Kowloon-Canton Railway Land Sales, (Premia on New Leases, $300,000 $263,960.31 $299,259.23 $35,329.00 Charge on account of Public Debt Pensions... $189,772.00 $138,234.68 $181,208.42 $42,983.74 $437,592.45 $387,275.67 $50,316.78 $826,769.00 $749,549.66 $783,391.04 $33,741.38 Charitable Services $43,001.00 $68,638.60 $44,623.75 $24,014.85 TOTAL. $16,884,215 $16,524,974.90 $18,665,248.41 $2,593,088.94 Deduct $252,815.43 Net... $2,140,273.51Statement of Assets and Liabilities on the 31st December, 1919.
TOTAL. Deduct Net $14,677,896.00 $17,915,935.36 $16,252,171.87 $2,042,461.90 $378,708.41 $1,663,753.49Statement of Funded Public Debt or Loans borrowed for Fixed Periods outstanding on the 31st December, 1919, and of the Accumulated Sinking Fund at the same date.
LIABILITIES. ASSETS. $9,924,720 JOINT SINKING FUND 1919. Designation of Creic or Loall Legal Authority. Amount Outstanding. Amount of Strek. &c. Cost Price. Market Value. Hongkong Ordinance No. War Loan $3,000,000 12 of 1916. Deposits on Hongkong & Shangbai Banking Corporation $224,720 War Loan (1928) Stock. (1939) Feb... Do. £79,800. 0. 0 $606. 0. 0 $1,006.17.10 $224,720 $416.17.30 $500, 0, 0 $19.044.16, 5 $5.312.14. 0 Deposits not Available, $1,369,266.59 Subsidiary Coins..... $44,316.93 Postal Agencies, $74,320.32 Shipping Control Account, $2,216,204.11 Advances, Other Items, ................... $659,079.90 Hongkong Rice. Inscribe Ordinances Nos. 1 & 2 of 1893 and No, 11 af 1905, Suspense Account, $956, 39.13 Imprest,..... $12,439.25 Overdraft, Bank, Crown Agents' Current Account,: $1,179,928.37 $35,220.25 House Service Account, $4,402.14 Crown Agents' Deposit Account, $375,309.64 Unallocated Stores, (P.W.D.), $205,368.91 Unallocated Stores, (Railway), $207,519.94 Total Liabilities, .... $4,874,954.64 Coal Account, ............................ Balance....... $4,290,187.90 Investment Aerount, $706,137.84 $3,192,772.56 Total............. $9,165,142.54 • Invested as follows :- Total.... $9,165,142.54 Value of Stock. Actual Cost. Market Value, Hongkong 6% War Loan, 1921-25, .. $120,000.00 $120,000.00 $120,000.00 4 Funding Loan, 1960-1990, 5 War Loan, 1929-1947,............ £1,125,000 0s. Od. £1,569 18#, 7d. £894,002 1s. 8d. (764) £560.625 Ox. Od. €4,301 Ss. 11. (914) + (1929-47)...... Totals... ..... 21.483,782.18.5) Antigua, (1919-44) Barbadoes. (1923-42) 34 British Guiana, (1923-45) 3) Cape of Good Hope. (1983-43)..... 3 Ceylon. (1934) Do. (1934.59) Do.. (1940) 31 Exchequer Bonils. (1995) 3 *. Funding Loan (1960-90) 4 Gold Const, (1919-593 ...47 10.. (1927.52) 3 Un Grenada. (1917-42) ........4% Indin, (1931)..... .... Jamaica. (1934) Do.. (1922-44) Montserrat. (1919-44) Natal (1929-49) New Zenlund, (1945) (1940)...) Queensland. (1922-47) Sierra Leone.(1929-54) Do.. a T Do.. (1988-69) 4* "% St. Lucia. (1919-44). ...4) South Australia. (1999) 21 " Sontb Nigeria (Lagos). (1990-55)...*** Strails Settleinents. (1987-57)...34 “2 Trinidad, (1917-42) ........4° De.. (1922-44) .... 3 Victoria. (1929-49) .... 34 * War Loan (1929-47).... 5" Do (1928 April) 5% : .......... (היו) Do. Do (1929 Sept....3% (1999 Feb.)...5 " Western Australia, (1915-85) Western Australia. (1916-36). Exchequer Bonils (1922) 5 War Loan (1928) April %% Bp. (1927) £4.197 38. 1 Lef. Less IM (1928) Sept. & Total.. 2.000. 0. V 1.819.10, 0 8.448.18.10 11,255.10, 2 3.200, 0. 50,144.2.2 1.800. II, U 19.556.11. 8 2.116.7.10 2.879.14. 6 3,992.18. 9,777.16.0 4.813. 2. 9 3.247. 9. 3 594. 8.10 306.19.10 2.000. 0.0. 1,742. 5. 2 2,000. 11. 0 £,000, 0.0 HOU. 1. 5 822. 1.0 1.200. 0.0 45,539,10, 4 54.08. 15,138. 3,10 11.303. *. 0 5,000. 3. 0 30 602. 0. K! 12,550, 0, 0 12.213.12. 4 10.950, V. V 11,750, 0. u! 094,19.10 2,000, 0, 0 3247.6.11 * $224.720 €79.068. 1.3 (584) $279.608, 14, 0 $600, 0. (200) $600.0 $959.14.2 (1) $931.4+ $224.720 C80.627.15. T $501.17. (57) $224.700 £20.134.84. 6 $49.3, 4 $17.477. 1.3 (72) $13,712. 5. 3 $4,044.18. 2 (65) $1,041. 1.0 (67) $1,533. 2. 6 (85) ALITA, 4. | (70) 7,589.16. 7 |(70) 3.200, 0.0 $3.453. 5. I $1.340. P. 0 $1.546,11,4 $1514 5.0 $7.878.17. E $0.0. +10 +0,115. 5, 5 (764) $1.508.16. 6 (78) $15,001.16. (62) $12.125. 1. $11,673.12. 2 (67) $8,117.6.2 $2,261. 86(77) $2017. - $3,982.1%. $3.786.13. G $5.861. 9. A $9,760, 5.11 (84) $8.213, $9. A (70) $2,371.17.9 (64) $528.16.2† $271. 0.18 (62) $1,921. 8. 8 (62) $1.640,12. ↑ (70) $1,948. 5.10 (01) $4.777.11. 2 (68) $767.16. 8 (77) $262.31. I (73) $1.291.16, 5 (70) $7.0 $4,709, 3.11 $2,078.6 $594. $.10 $190. G. S $1.240. $1.219.11. 7 $1.220.0 $3.400, 0, 0 $610. 27 $241.11. 4 $840, 2 U $43.506. 6.0 (68) $20,966.175 $30,380. 8. L (67) $36,808. 0. 1 $14,267.10.10 (78) $11,807.18. 2 $9.833.15. 2 (83) $7.121.2.10 $4,300, 0, 0 $4.784. 8. 6 (86) $29,028.11. 1919-28,191,11 4 $12,550, 0, 0 $12.218.12 + LÙ50. U. 0 $6. 00 $1. 1, 1. 0 $11,750, 0, (100) $11,770, 7, 9 $384. 7. 8 (76) $520.14. 3 $1.906.16.11 (71) $1.420, 0, 0 $256.285, 1. U $349.383. 0. $3,200 0.0 $12,360, 0, 0 $12,213.12. $10,950, 0, 0 $3.200. 0. 0 $12.550, 0, 0 $12313.12. 41 $10,950,-0. 0 £947.429.11. 7 l£310,469, 8, 0 $256.283. 1. 06th May, 1920.
• Converted into 4 “ Furling Town (1960-90).
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D. W. TRATMAN,
Treasurer.