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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931.
WHERE THE MONEY using the new portable X-Ray and
GOES.
$108,138 Wanted for Current Year.
KOWLOON MATERNITY BLOCK.
The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council will be asked to-morrow to sanction supplemen- tary Votes totalling $108,138 for the current year. Delails are as under:
Public Works Department: Drawing Materials and Mounting Plans, $4,000.
Provision made in .Estimates. $7,000.
The yote has become exhausted on account of the continued heavy de- mand for leases, the demands for plans etc. from other Departments, and the increased cost of materials in local currency.
Approximately 20 per cent. of the amount expended is recoverable from the sale of plans etc.
The expenditure
1930 was $11,686.
for.. the
electrical apparatus without atan- dard power plugs. It is essential that the installation should be car- rled out as soon as possible. As no provision was made in the cur- rent estimates for this expenditure a supplementary vote for one thou- Band one hundred dollars is now re- quired.
The above in to be met from savings under Maintenance
Lunatics at Canton.
of
Maternity Block. Public Works Extraordinary Kowloon Hospital Maternity Block, $49,000.
Provision made in Estimates, $100,000.
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
Tone Slightly Better To-day.
SETTLEMENT LIQUIDATED,
The official summary issued, by the Stock Exchange to-day states:
The tone of the market this morn- ing is slightly better, and it appears! that the Settlement has now been more or less liquidated.
Douglases were again in demand at $25.
Raubs were wanted at the slight advance to $354.
Wharves were in demand at the improved rate of $150.
The cost of the hospital building was originally estimated st $180,000 but owing to the drop in the sterling value of the dollar the estimate subsequently had to beat $5.40. increased to $197,000.
Providents (old) were on offer
Hotels (old) advanced to a buying The original estimate in 1929 for rate of $14.40. The new shares the maternity block and site forma-were wanted at the close at $13.90, after sales being put through at tion was $208,000.
$132.
Thero-
In 1980 the site formation Was completed for $81,526.85. year fore in 1931 the revised estimate
Was
for the building alone
The additional sum now requested $180,000. During the current year is urgently required to enable this it is anticipated expenditure will service to be continued without de-i be $149,000.
lay.
Bonham Road. Public Works Extraordinary: To Various Resumptions etc. meet cost of road widening works, $16,500.
Provision made in Estimates, $10,000.
The sum is required in connection with the widening of Bonham Road at a narrow and sharp corner be- tween Centre and Western, Streets. Finance Committee approved the expenditure of $11,000 for this work in 1924, but the work was never carried out. The owner of LL. 609A, which abuts on the south side of the Bection of the rond
La
Treasurer's Salary. Treasury: Personal Emolu- ments, $931,
Provision made in Estimates, $46,985.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved the appoint- ment of a Deputy Treasurer to the Fost of Treasurer on the scale of 1,500 to £1,800 as from June 28, 1931. A vote for the difference be tween £1,100 p.a. (as provided in the estimates) and £1,600 p.a. for the period June 28 to December 81, 1931, at the approved rates of ox- change is now required.
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Gas Lighting,
Public Works Recurrent:-Gas now Lighting, City and Suburbs and lot. Hill District. To mest additional expenditure due to new rates in re-revised agreement, $29,000.
to be widened, anxious to re-develop his This he cannot do until the road widening, which neludes the erection of a retaining wall, has been completed. Government there- fore feels itself committed to carry- ing out the approved scheme.
The main reason for the increase in the estimated cost of the work is that whereas in 1924 a dump for the surplus earth was available near by, it will now have to be transport- Jed to North Point.
Electric Lighting.. Public Works Recurrent:-Elec- tric Lighting Kowloon, $1,000.
Provision made in Estimates, $30,000.
Provision made in Estimates, $99,000.
Lands were in demand at $81. Ewos were wanted at $16, aa were also Zoong Singe, at T13.
Trams, which were the medium of sales at $2014 and $20.80, closed in demand at the former quotation.
H.K. Electrics were put through: at $761⁄2, and there were sellors at the close at $77.
Telephones (part paid) were offering at $29.
Ropes were in demand at $17. Constructiona. (new) changed hands at $1.35.
DIPLOMATIC PRESENTATION AT
NANKING.
Nanking. Yesterday. Introduced by Dr. Frank Lee, Acting Foreign Minister, Dr. Oscar Trautmann, the new German Minister, presented credentials to President Chiang Kai-shek this morning. Minister Trautmann was] accompanied by Dr. Bracklo and Mr. E. von Randow, respectively Counsellor and Secretary of the German Legation. There was the The Public Lighting Contract usual exchange of greetings and between Government and the Hong good wishes-Sing News Service. Kong and China Gas Co. expired on June 30, 1930, and the torms which it is to be renewed have been
Owing to the increased number the subject of negotiation with the of telegrams despatched, the vote The agreement was of $800 is exhausted. Company. alyned in March 1931, the new rates coming into force therefore after the Estimates for 1931 had been prepared. A vote of $29,000 is re- quired to meet the additional charges for gas lighting in Hong Kong during the year.
on
Gas Lighting, Kowloon. To meet additional expenditure due to new in revised agreements, rates
To meet street lighting charges The exten- duo to delevoipment. sion of certain roads upon which new buildings have been completed has necessitated additional street $6,000. lighting.
Colonial Secretary's Office and Reports, Legislature:-Hansard
867.
Provision $1,800.
Royal Observatory. Royal Observatory: Mainten ance of Lithographic Plant, $50.
Provision made in Estimates,
made in Estimates, $300.
It is estimated that a further sum of $400 will be required up to December 1931.
The above is to be mot from savings under bedding.
Rent of Offices, Harbour Department:-Rent of Offices, $100.
Provision made in Estimates, $5,130.
was
Provision made by Supple- mentary Vote, $300.
Provision
made in 1981! Estimates for the Rent of G.M.S. monthly rental of Indents for stores from England Office at a
$427.50. The 1930 Hansard which is were estimated at $118. 8d.. but
The lease expired on 30.4.31 but published and paid for in 1931 con- were paid for at $1-11%d. Econo- tained 282 pages as against an aver-mies were effected but not sufficient it was renewed for six months end- age of 200 for the previous thee to meet the difference and the vote ing 31.10.31 with increased rental supple- is now $16 overspent. The sum of of $50 per month, and a years.
The sum of $57 now asked for is $50 asked for is to meet this deficit mentary vote for $300 was taken. to meet the additional cost of print- and to provide funds for the neces-Accommodation for G.M.S. office is sary small local purchases till the still unavailable elsewhere, and it ing the larger volume.
is therefore necessary to renow the| end of the year.
lease, for which purpose a further amount of $100 is required for the period 1.11.31 to 31.12.81 and ap plication is now submitted.
The above is to be met from
conveyance
and savings under motor allowances.
The above is to be met from sav-
The above is to be inst from ings under office equipment:
Medical Department:-Installa-savings under meteorological tele of standard power plugs for X-Ray grams. work, $1,100.
X-Ray Work.
Considerable difficulty has been experienced by the Radiologist in
Police Telegrams. Police Force:-Telegrams, $400. Provision made in Estimates, 800.
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