Governor
1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1914.
Expenditure.
**
$
85,986.29
Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature 70,894.40
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs **
Audit Department
Treasury
51,178.04
32,697.22
66,943.60
Harbour Master's Department
176,287.98
Imports and Exports Department
991,096.46
Royal Observatory
25,398.31
Miscellaneous Services
Judicial and Legal Departments
Police and Prison Departments
Medical Departments
Sanitary Department
Botanical and Forestry Department Education ..
Military Expenditure
Public Works Department
945,131.62
259,181.94
933,156.52
230,896.86
353,521.53
49,076.14
292,820.83
1,886,346.31
414,510.57
Do.
Do.
Recurrent
Extraordinary
567,100.18 1,639,594.72
Post Office
Kowloon-Canton Railway
371,646.06
274,366.39
Charge on account of Public Debt
705,808.50
Pensions
305,030.61
Charitable Services
27,553.74
TOTAL
$10,756,224.82
The surplus on the year's working was $251,048, and the balance of assets and liabilities showed on the 31st December a sum of $2,910,474 in the Colony's favour.
The following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1910-1914 -
Revenue. $ Expenditure. $ 1910 6,960,861 6,907,113 1911 7,497,231 7,202,553 1912 8,180,694 8,512,308 1913 8,658,012 8,658,012 1914 11,007,273 10,756,225The capital expenditure on the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway during 1914 was $574,429, chiefly in connection with the erection of a terminal station and purchase of rails, locomotives, and rolling stock. The total expenditure on this account amounted at the end of the year to a sum of $14,095,661.
The amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,732, and in addition the advances by, and drafts on, the Crown Agents for Railway Construction amounted at the end of the year to £109,404. Against these items there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £186,294 and there is a balance of £128,479 unpaid in respect of the loan to the late Viceroy of Wuchang.
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Governor
1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1914.
Expenditure.
**
$
85,986.29
Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature 70,894.40
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
**
Audit Department
Treasury
51,178.04
32,697.22
66,943.60
Harbour Master's Department
176,287.98
Imports and Exports Department
991,096.46
Royal Observatory
25,398.31
Miscellaneous Services
Judicial and Legal Departments
Police and Prison Departments
Medical Departments
Sanitary Department
Botanical and Forestry Department Education ..
Military Expenditure
Public Works Department
945,131.62
259,181.94
933,156.52
230,896.86
353,521.53
49,076.14
.292,820.83
1,886,346.31
•
414,510.57
Do.
Do.
Recurrent
Extraordinary
567,100.18 1,639,594.72
Post Office
Kowloon-Canton Railway
371,646.06
274,366.39
Charge on account of Public Debt
705,808.50
Pensions
305,030.61
Charitable Services
27,553.74
TOTAL
$10,756,224.82
The surplus on the year's working was $251,048, and the balance of assets and liabilities showed on the 31st December a sum
of $2,910,474 in the Colony's favour.
The following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1910-1914 -
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
•
Revenue.
$
Expenditure.
$
6,960,861
6,907,113
7,497,231
7,077,177
8,180,694
7,202,553
8,512,308
8,658,012
11,007,273
10,756,225
The capital expenditure on the British section of the Kowloon- Canton Railway during 1914 was $574,429, chiefly in connection with the erection of a terminal station and purchase of rails, locomotives, and rolling stock. The total expenditure on this account amounted at the end of the year to a sum of $14,095,661.
The amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,732, and in addition the advances by, and drafts on, the Crown Agents for Railway Construction amounted at the end of the year to £109,404. Against these items there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £186,294 and there is a balance of £128,479 unpaid in respect of the loan to the late Viceroy of Wuchang.
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