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MILITARY EXPENDITURE.
COLONIAL CONTRIBUTION IN AID OF MILITARY EXPENDITURE AT HONGKONG PAID INTO THE TREASURY CHEST
from 1st January to 31st December, 1917.
MONTH.
AMOUNT.
RATE OF EXCHANGE.
CURRENCY,
REMARKS.
1917.
£
$.
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d.
January,
21,755 1 5
@ 2,4
186,473,33
February,
21,949 9 4
2/41
186,473.33
March,......
21,949 9 4
2/11
186,473.38
April,
21,755 4 5
2/4
186,473.33
May,
21,949 9 4
2/44
186,473,33
June,
22,143 14 2
2/11/
186,473.33
July,
22,532 3 11
2/5
186,473,33
August,
23,891 17 11
2/63
186,473,33
September,
25,057 7 1
2/81
186,473 33
October,
28,942 4
3/11
186,473.33
November,
26,999 15 8
2,104
186,473.33
December,
26,611 6 1
2/101
186,473,37
Difference for year 1916,
78,362 7 7
3/11
504,885.14
Paid in October 1917.
Total,
£363,899 13 7
$2,742,565.14
DETAIL OF MILITARY EXPENDITURE AT HONGKONG FROM 1ST JANUARY
TO 31ST DECEMBER, 1917.
From Army Pay Office Records,
HEADS OF SERVICES.
AMOUNT.
£
d.
Regimental Pay of Officers, N.C.O.'s, and Men,
92,151 5 2
Transport, Lodging, Rents, and Barrack Services........................
27,856 6 5
Provisious, Chair, Fuel and Light, Colonial Allowances, and Clothing,.......
86,215 1 6
Ordnance Establishments and General Stores,
7,921 7
Armaments, and Engineer Stores,
Engineer Salaries, Fortifications, aud Barrack Buildings,.
Miscellaneous Effective and Non-Effective Services,
78 15 10
20,791 6 11
95,484 12 2
Total,..
£330,498 15 2*
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• Includes expenditure in North China and passed through the Accounts of the Command Paymaster, cis, at Tientsia £14,263, 11z. Od., Chinese Coolie Corps £101,223. 65. 5d., Shanghai £21), 10#. 72., Grand Total £115,098. 88. Od.