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LAND REGISTRY OFFICE.
PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.
Postman at $8 a month is also engaged as Sorter in the sub-office on the side of the Harbour opposite to the Agency. His services are absolutely necessary, additions were approved in February and are being paid for out of savings for the current year.
OTHER CHARGES. Carriage of Mails.
Transit Charges.-The increase under this head is principally due to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Steamship Companies represented by it demanding an increase in the amount hitherto paid to them for the conveyance of mails to the United States, and to the extension of the Parcel Post to that country.
The total is made up as follows :—
United Kingdom, £5,593 @ 1/8 $67,116 Other Countries, 2,230 26,760 Conveyance of United States Mails to Manila and Manila Mails to United States,* Parcel Post,.. 945 11,340 25 300 £8,793 $105,516 Canton Mails----- Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-Boat Company..... $7,505 China Navigation Company, 747 8,252 Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company for conveyance of Hongkong Mails, etc., to San Francisco, etc., 45 trips at $195 a trip, 8,775 For increase in correspondence to United Kingdom, etc., 2,457 $125,000Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds.-The increase in this item is made up as follows:-
Transferred from gardening operations in Cemetery,.. $800 Increase considered necessary for Cemetery, 200 Transferred from Maintenance of Government Office Grounds, 100 Maintenance of Peak Garden (C.O.D. 141 of 1904),............ 100 Maintenance of Taipingshan Garden (C.O.D. 231 of 1903),... 500 $1,700SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.
Purchase of Steam-launch.-The Government Marine Surveyor reported the Post Office Launch “Courier" to be unseaworthy. She was fifteen years old and only able to make 6 knots. Her original cost was $5,250. She was sold by tender for $2,000 and a launch has been hired for the present at $120 a month.
OBSERVATORY.
PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.
Coolie Wages.-Owing to the impossibility of retaining the services of coolies at the former rates they have been raised one from $9 and two from $8 a month to $10 and $9 respectively.
BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT.
PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.
Gardens, Forestry,--The items under these heads have been re-arranged and better classified.
OTHER CHARGES.
Draining King's Park.-No further expenditure under this head required at present.
Forestry, New Territory.-This item has been increased by £5,000, the sum of $8,000 being held to be a suitable annual expenditure for the present for beginning a more comprehensive scheme of afforestation in the New Territory which is rendered possible by the impending completion of the operations of the Land Court in investigating and settling titles. The arrangements contemplated are expected to yield a fair revenue in due course.
* Refunds on account of these Mails are paid in as Revenue.
Clerk and Translator.--The salary of the holder of the office is at present $720, but he is expected to pass in 1905 as 2nd Class Translator when he will come on the scale provided.
Temporary Clerk-This Clerk has hitherto been paid $1 a day out of lapsing salaries, but is now shown on the Estimates. It is possible that further clerical assistance may be permanently required for New Territory work.
NEW TERRITORIES.
2 Copying Clerks.-These posts have been placed in Class VIII of the classification scheme and made permanent, but the holders come on the scale at $300, the figure at which they were appointed.
Coolies for Land Bailiffs.--Are required to carry maps, etc., for field work.
OTHER CHARGES.
Incidental Expenses.—Previous provision insufficient to meet increased wants due to increases of staff, electric lighting formerly paid for by Supreme Court, uniforms for messengers, and new furniture required.
ATTORNEY GENERAL AND CROWN SOLICITOR.
PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.
Crown Solicitor's Clerk.-On the resignation of this Clerk recently, the Crown Solicitor requested that the Clerk's salary might be added to the item Expenses of Crown Solicitor's staff as no special work devolved upon this Clerk all the clerical work being divided between the various clerks employed by the Crown Solicitor, and this was approved.
LAND COURT, NEW TERRITORY.
Provision was only made for six months of 1904, but it became necessary to supplement this as the work of settling claims could not be completed by the 30th of June. A revised Estimate was laid before Council involving an excess of $7,746.80 over the original estimate and a further Supplementary Vote was taken later for $4,524 for the Staff required from the 1st June to the 31st of December, 1904, in connection with the work of Land Settlement, as apart from the investigation of claims, in New Kowloon and the New Territory. A vote was also taken for half of Mr. CLEMENTI's salary for six months from July to December to admit of the officer acting in Mr. CLEMENTI's substantive post of Assistant Registrar General drawing half salary while Mr. CLEMENTI was seconded to the Land Court. Other clerical assistance may still be required for 1904.
The work of hearing and deciding claims will be completed by the end of the year, and the Land Court consequently disappears from the 1905 Estimates.
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LAND REGISTRY OFFICE.
PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.
Postman at $8 a month is also engaged as Sorter in the sub-office on the side of the These Harbour opposite to the Agency. His services are absolutely necessary, additions were approved in February and are being paid for out of savings for the current year.
OTHER CHARGES. Carriage of Mails.
Transit Charges.-The increase under this head is principally due to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Steamship Companies represented by it denuding an increase in the amount hitherto paid to them for the conveyance of mails to the United States, and to the extension of the Parcel Post to that country.
The total is made up as follows :—
United Kingdom,,
Other Countries,
Conveyance of United States Mails to Manila
and Manila Mails to United States,* Parcel Post,..
..£5,593 2,230
945
25
£8,793 @ 1/8 $105,516
Canton Mails-----
Hongkong, Cauton and Macao Steam-
Boat Company.....
China Navigation Company,
$7,505 747
8,252
Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company for convey- ance of Hongkong Mails, etc., to San Francisco, etc., 45 trips at $195 a trip, · For increase in correspondence to United King-
dom, etc.,
8,775
2,457
$125,000
Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds.-The increase in this item is made
up as follows:-
Transferred from gardening operations in Cemetery,.. Increase considered necessary for Cemetery,
.$ 800
200
Transferred from Maintenance of Government Office Grounds, 100 Maintenance of Peak Garden (C.O.D. 141 of 1904),............ 100 Maintenance of Taipingshan Garden (C.O.D. 231 of 1903),... 500
$1,700
SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.
Purchase of Steam-launch.-The Government Marine Surveyor reported the Post Office Launch “ Courier" to be unseaworthy. She was fifteen years old and only able to make 6 knots. Her original cost was $5,250. She was sold by ten- der for $2,000 and a launch has been hired for the present at $120 a month.
OBSERVATORY.
PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.
Coolie Wages.-Owing to the impossibility of retaining the services of coolies at the former rates they have been raised one from $9 and two from $8 a month to $10 and $9 respectively.
BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT.
PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.
Gardens, Forestry,--The items under these heads have been re-arranged and better classified.
OTHER CHARGES.
Draining King's Park.-No further expenditure under this head required at
present.
Forestry, New Territory.-This item has been increased by £5,000, the sum of $8,000 being held to be a suitable annual expenditure for the present for beginning a more comprehensive scheme of afforestation in the New Territory which is rendered possible by the impending completion of the operations of the Land Court in investigating and settling titles. The arrangements contemplated are expected to vield a fair revenue in due course.
* Refunds ou account of these Mails are paid in as Revenue.
Clerk and Translator.--The salary of the holder of the office is at present $720, but he is expected to pass in 1905 as 2nd Class Translator when he will come on the scale provided.
Temporary Clerk-This Clerk has hitherto been paid $1 a day out of lapsing salaries, but is now shown on the Estimates. It is possible that further clerical assistance may be permanently required for New Territory work.
NEW TERRITORIES.
2 Copying Clerks.-These posts have been placed in Class VIII of the classiti- cation scheme and made permanent, but the holders come on the scale at $300, the figure at which they were appointer.
Coolies for Land Bailiffs.--Are required to carry maps, etc., for field work.
OTHER CHARGES.
Incidental Expenses.—Previous provision insufficient to meet increased wants due to increases of stall, electric lighting formerly paid for by Supreme Court, uniforms for messengers, and new furniture required.
ATTORNEY GENERAL AND CROWN SOLICITOR.
PERSONA EMOLUMENTS,
Crown Solicitor's Clerk.-On the resignation of this Clerk recently, the Crown Solicitor requested that the Clerk's salary might be added to the item Expenses of Crown Solicitor's staff as no special work devolved upon this Clerk all the clerical work being divided between the various clerks employed by the Crown Solicitor, and this was approved.
LAND COURT, NEW TERRITORY,
Provision was only made for six months of 1904, but it became necessary to supplement this as the work of settling claims could not be completed by the 30th of Jibe. A revised Estimate was laid before Conncil involving an excess of $7,746,80 over the original estimate and a further Supplementary Vote was taken later for $4,524 for the Staff required from the 1st June to the 31st of December, 1901, in connection with the work of Land Settlement, as apart from the investigation of claims, in New Kowloon and the New Territory. A vote was also taken for half of Mr. CLEMENTI's salary for six months from July to December to admit of the officer acting in Mr. CLEMENTI'S substantive post of Assistant Registrar General drawing half salary while Mr. CLEMENTI was secondel to the Laud Court. Other clerical assistance may still be required for 1904.
The work of hearing and deciding claims will be completed by the end of the year, and the Land Court consequently disappears from the 1905 Estimates.
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