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Table XXI.

GENERAL CHINESE CHARITIES FUND.

Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1929.

Expenditure.

To Balance, 10,000.00 Rent from Temple Keepers of :— 20,880.00 Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City, Tin Hau Temple, Yanmati 588.00 Kwun Yam Temple, Chi Wan Shan, 1,681.26 Pak Tai Temple, Wanchai 693.55 Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan 1,630.00 Tam Kung Temple, Shaukiwan 130,644.46 Fook Tak Chi Temple, Shaukiwan 475.50 To Ti Temple, Shaukiwan 30.00 Sheung Tai Temple, Ma Tau Chung 297.75 Tam Kung Temple, Sung Wong Toi 457.37 Tin Hau Temple, To Kwa Wan 112.50 Pak Tai Temple, Cheung Chau Island 3,200.00 Kwun Yum Temple, Hunghom 4,610.00 Yi Pak Kung Temple, Quarry Bay 595.00 Tin Hau Temple, Ping Chau Island Tam Kung Temple, Wongneichong 116.50 Tin Hau Temple, Aberdeen 652.50 The Kai Fong of Hunghom for the expenses of free school at Kwun Yum Temple, Hunghom 491.00 Ngai Lo Shi (ex-temple keeper of Yi Pak Kung Temple, Quarry Bay) Pak Tai Temple, Hok Un, Hunghom 230.00 46,740.93 House Rents :- Property of Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City 7,500.00 for expenses Chinese Public Dispensary (Shamshuipo) 2,500.00 1,100.00 Lok Shin Tong, Kowloon City for 1929 71.25 400.00 64,571.25 Expenses for holding theatrical performance at Kowloon City Ma Tau Chung 600.00 50.00 Cheung Chau Island 1,000.00 1,650.00 Annual Subscription to Confucian 775.50 Property of Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan 555.77 Society for expenses of the Free school at Yuk Hu Kung, Wanchui 520.00 1,331.27 Repairs to:- Property of Pak Tai Temple, Pak Tai Temple, Wanchai 1,500.00 Cheung Chau (shares of the Pak Tai Temple, Hunghom 2,600.00 Cheung Chau Kai Fong Ferry Co.) Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City 250.00 5,200.00 Yi Pak Kung Temple, Quarry Bay 200.00 4,550.00 Crown Rents 19.00 Grant from Education Department for Free Schools in Kowloon City 2,040.00 Subscriptions from Kai Fong of Wanchai for repairs to Pak Tai Temple, Wanchai 26.00 Fee for boundary stones for Chinese Public Dispensary, Kowloon City 30.00 Stamp Duty for Crown Leases for Chinese Public Dispensary, Kowloon City 150.00 Water Account 22.50 Advertisements for tender of 97.00 Grant by Hong Kong Government 25,000.00 Interest :- Fixed Deposit 35,000.00 Temple Keepers 182.39 Furniture and Fittings for Pak Tai Temple, Hok Un 621.00 Current Account 2,950.00 804.41 3,754.41 Balance in Treasury :- Fixed Deposit 110,000.00 Cash Account 37,454.65 147,454.65 Total 224,861.07 Total 224,861.07

A. E. WOOD,

Secretary for Chinese Affairs.