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Wednesday, May 23, 1973
SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS FOR OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1972
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The Legislative Council today approved supplementary provisions
amounting to $171.5 million for the third quarter of the financial year
1972/73.
This included $10.5 million for the payment of backwages to teachers
in government and aided schools as a result of the revision of salaries in
1971.
Public works non-recurrent accounted for $80 million.
of this,
$29 million was required as a result of more rapid progress on a number of
existing projects and a further $19 million to meet payments on clearance
and repair work in respect of highways damaged by the summer rainstorms
last year.
Other items included, $3.9 million for applying the pay scales for
government nurses to the nursing staff of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals,
$1.5 million as a capital subvention towards the cost of the Yan Chai Hospital,
and $2.7 million for expenses of the Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign in 1972.
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