Financial Minute No.
Laid before Council and
recommended by the Finance Committee.
Approved by Council.
Vote and Service,
Explanation.
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23rd June, 1925.
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Police Department, Other Charges, Secret Service.
$10,000.00 Miscellaneous Services, British Empire Exhibition.
£25,000.00.
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23rd June, 1926.
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9th July, 1925. Miscellaneous Services,
Gratuity to Mr. J. Duncan.
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Prisons Department, Special Expenditure, Cement for Lai Chi Kok Prison. $400.00
Public Works Extraordinary Miscellanous, 40, Compensations and Resumption. $292,000.00
howloon Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, Extemion to sidings at Loco yard.
$8,450.00
Miscellaneous Services, Purchase and Upkeep of Typewriters.
$490.00
Charitable Services, Charitable Pensions to Leung Yau Kwan, widow of the late Detective C611 Sokin Cho.
$220.00
Royal Observatory, Other Charges, Meteorological Telegrams.
$2,000.00
Port Works Extraordinary, Prays East Reclamation,
(a) Contribution by
Government towards Fund for Reclamation.
$64,000.00
Miscellaneous Services:-
Quarters for the Clerical Staff, Partitions and Electric Fittings.
$7,000.00
Rent for six months
Underestimated. The monthly cost has averaged $1,500.00. Only $8,000.00 was included inthe Estimates for 1925.
Estimated expenditure on the Hongkong Section.
Gratuity on his retirement to Mr. John Duncan, Port Engineer, approved by Secretary of State.
Required for cementing the courtyard at Lai Chi Kok Prison, The ground was found to get very muddy in the wet season and was dangerous to health.
To be paid to the Berlin Mission when the Government takes over their property.
A revote of unexpended balance from 1924.
The vote was found insufficient owing to the opening of two new offices.
Pension to the widow of a detective killed on duty.
An arrangement has recently been made for an improvement in meteriological telegraphic communication which will open up other sources of wireless communication.
This sum is the Government share of the funds for the Reclamation. So far as it has at present advanced.
Blocks of flats nave been rented for the Chinese Clerical Staff. The sum of $7,000.00 is for fittings and other manor alterations found necessary.
Total
$7,560.00
$14,560.00
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