(C 13)
COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEARS 1906 AND 1907,-Continued.
INCREASE.
DECREASE.
C.
112,073,76
14
21,769.91
CAUSES OF INCREASE OR DECRAESE.
Lower rate of exchange.
8,759,58
Savings in connection with Plague votes.
*
3,474.41
Entered under Ecclesiastical.
16,179.18
140, 61.89
1,785.64
Fewer new appointments.
404,237.49
Extraordinary expenditure in 1906.
92,943.14
Decreased Military Contribution on account of decrensed Revenne.
291.184.74
591,452.40
775,139.55
291.18474
1,366,591.95
291,184.74
1,075,407.21
Principally due to maximum rate for payment of salaries being
fixed at 2 –.
Principally due to repairs of typhoon and rainstorm damages and to an increase in the expenditure on Maintenance of Build- ings, Lighthouses, Sewers and Nullalis,
↑ Principally due to the postponement of the Tyam Tuk Sobeme (2nd section), the transfer of Typhoou and Rainstorm Damage Vote from Publie Works Extraordinary to Public Works Recurrent, a great reduction in expenditure ou the Kowloon Water Works and Tytum Tuk Scheme (1st section ), suspension of Insanitary Property Resump- tion Schemes nmd delay in execution of several other works,