SO
(C8)
COMPARATIVE YEARLY STATEMENT OF THE REVENUE,—Continued.
Specify each separate Tax or Duty
according to the classifications employed in the Estimates.
Amount collected in 1936.
Amount collected in 1937.
Increase.
Decrease.
Cause of Inercase or Decrease,
5. POST OFFICE.
Box Rents,
Commission on Money and Postalj
Orders,
Message Fees,......
-
C.
C.
C.
12,796.00
12,796.00'
10,325.29,
10,325.20
Postage,
678,062.90 976,923.45 208,860.55
1,380,823.09 2,254,351.35 873,528.26
2,058.885. 3,254.396.00, 1,195,510.10
a
Total.......
6.—KOWLOON-CANTON
RAILWAY.
MAIN LINE.
Previously under Postage.
Do.
Increased traffic due to cable
breakdowns,
Increased rates, Coronation
i stomps sales and expansion of
air mail services.
RI.
Passengers Service. Pas-
RI.
sengers, Foreign Line,... Passengers, Service, Pas-
sengers Home Line,..............
568,971.54
412,442.84
613,230.88
273,632.95
44,268.34
4
Coronation traffic & increased prosperity,
139.809.89
Shum Chun Casino closure.
R2. Passenger Service, Others
Foreign Line,
5,839.00, 9,136.70 8,297.70
More parcels and luggage.
R2.
Passenger Service, Others
Home Line,
2,531.00 3,348.65
816.75
do.
R3.
Goods Service, Goods
Foreign Line,
43,476.93
161.408.79;
117,981.86
Abnormal conditions in China.
R4.
R3. Goods Service, Goods
Home Line, Goods Service, Others,
Foreign Line,
R4, Goods Service, Others,
Home Line,
RT. Profits on Central Mechani-
end Works, Home Line,..)
13,713.98 17,201.99' 3,488.01!
1,218.00, 6.147.66 4,929.66
129.00
110.00
252.80
Mining products.
Abnormal conditions in China,
19.00
RS. Rents, Home Line,
15,988.12
12,785.55 12,533.25
40,9238.35 $3,935.23
More work performed for DUD Government departments.
All storage space occupied.
R9. Incidental Revenne, Foreign|
Line,
R9. Incidental Revenue. Home
Line,
RIO. Auxiliary
Operations,
Foreign Haulage,
R11. Interchange of Rolling
Stock, Foreign Line,
12,935.80 12,445.49
33,675.99, 38,239.05
132,482.78 02,606.24
490.31
4,563.06
39,876.54
I
1,810.98'
7,713.99
5,903.01
More condemned stores gold.
Chinese section performed mure of the through baulage.
British Section stocks above quota.
Total .........
.8 1,245,469.16 1,297,940.29
231,666.87
179,195.74
7. RENT OF GOVERNMENT)
PROPERTY LAND AND
HOUSES.
1
Buildings,
Rent of Government Furniture,.
100,527.03 113,536.49
11,118.72 12,654,34
13.009.46
Kai Tack Airport & increased
1,535.62
rents,
Variable.
Lambs Not Leased (Permits for
Encroachments, &c.),
Laundries,
Carried forward.............
230,963.85, 300,724,97 78,761.12
3,000.00 5,200.00. 2,200.00
347,009,60, 441,115.80
Increase in permit areas.
Increased rents.
95,506.20,