Expenditure.
Q 4
Comparison of Expenditure, 1927 and 1928.
2. The following is a Statement of the Expenditure of 1928 as compared with that of the previous year:—
1927 1928 Increase Decrease (i) Personal Emoluments 1,117,271.48 1,157,430.00 40,158.52 (IA) Other Charges, 177,164.73 177,566.93 402.20 (ii) Annually Recurrent 1,542,494.98 1,482,915.36 59,579.62 (IB) Special Expenditure, Works, 857,874.87 (iii) Extraordinary Works, 2,966,390.69 2,108,515.82 14,681.13 872,555.00 27,636.66 12,955.53 (iv) Works undertaken on P.W. Loan Account, 1,537,261.16 976,112.08 561,149.08 (v) Works undertaken on behalf of Participants P.E.R. 839,079.00 547,227.11 291,851.89 (vi) Works undertaken on behalf for Military and Naval Authorities, 747,065.25 23,883.64 723,181.61 Total, 8,941,408.42 6,501,287.60 53,516.25 2,493,637.07 5,818,003.01 4,954,064.77 917,454.49In reference to:-
(i.) The increase is due to increments on salaries.
(iB.) The actual increase is due on account of additional Wireless Apparatus and Harbour Surveying during the year.
(ii) The actual decrease is due to the absence of heavy commitments on account of Typhoon and Rainstorm Damage which were necessary in 1927. This item alone accounts for a decrease of over $200,000 and that the aggregate decrease is only $59,579.62 is due to various small increases on other sub-heads.
(iii.) The decrease is due to economies effected owing to the conditions which have prevailed locally, as in the past two years, and consequently works not of an urgent nature were not proceeded with during the year under review.