Expenditure.
Q 4
New Territories.
Buildings.
Maintenance of Buildings,
Improvements to Buildings,..
Miscellaneous.
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
180.84
468.46
5,402.43
Comparison of Expenditure, 1919 and 1920.
2. The following is a statement of the expenditure in 1920 as compared with that of the previous year :--
1919 1920 Increase Decrease (i) Personal Emoluments and Other Charges, (A) Special Expenditure ; Typewriters, etc., 0. 390,006.29 $ c. 468,371.82 C. $ C. 78,365.53 1,376.35 (ii) Annually Recurrent Works, 822,509.87 $25,493.70 615.96 760.39 2,983.83 (iii) Extraordinary Works,... 2,235,002.95 2,555,877.69 320,874.74 Total, $3,448,895.46 3,850,359.17 402,224.10 *760.39Item (i). The increase is due to the increase of salaries under the revised scheme, increase of staff, and the grants of Special Bonuses to Officers who have been called upon to perform extra duties in addition to their own. The average rate of exchange for 1920 was 4/54 as compared with 3/9 during 1919.
Item (ii). The increase is insignificant compared with the increase in the number of Public Works dealt with under this head.
Item (iii). The increase is principally due to the expenditure in the erection of Officers' Quarters at Leighton Hill and Happy Valley, but there was also an increase in the amount expended in the formation of New Roads and widening and improvement of existing ones, the volume of such work even exceeding the record of the previous year. The gross amount expended under "Com-pensation and Resumptions" was $295,370.85 as compared with $539,523.56 during 1919 being a decrease of $244,152.71. The principal item was the resumption of land at Kowloon Bay Reclamation at a cost of $115,470.00. (vide para. 40.)