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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL

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EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.

Heads and Sub-Hends.

Estimated.

Actual

Increase.

Decrease.

Provisionally Voted.

1

$

$

$

Brought forward

646,470

835,321.74

14,888.77

28,035.03

HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT —

A-BARBOUR OFFICE.

Personal Emolmments

234,107

229,989.50

Acetylene Gas for Lighthouses, and

General Upkeep of Agn Lights

Boats, Renewal of.....

4,500 360

3,918.85 845.00

4,117.50

581.15 15.00

5,380.00

Lapaing salaries.

Coal and Oil Fuel for Latuchos ...........

123,700

99,591.32

23,108.68

Coal, Paraffin, nud Stores for Lighthouses

8,000

6,617.81

1,882.69

Savings.

Conveyance and Motor Allowances

8,060

2,923.52

136.48

Electric Fans and Light

750

749.56

.44

Examination Fees.....

2,000

2,000.00

Expenses of numbering boats

1,900

1,138.95

761.05

Fees to Unoticial Members of Murine

Do.

Courts

400

380.00

Gear, Porterage, etc......................

1,000

859.84

40.00 140.10

Guu Cotton Charges and

Electric

Detonators for Fog Signals

2,000

3,618.41

1,618.41

1,610.X)

Incidental Expenses.

2,000

640.98

1,359.02

Moorings

700

1.195.00

495.00

495.00

Oil and Sandry Stores

3,000

1,850.24

1,149.76

Paraffin and Stores for Wireless plant at

Gap Rock

Petrolema

700 125

853.80 75.70

346.20

49.80

Savings.

Raising and Renewing Moorings of Ocean

Steamships

25,000

24,594.00

406.00

Rent of Office at Sailors Hotne

Repairs and Stores for Launches......

480 69,840

480.00

66,386.05

$,453.95

Repairs to Boats and Buoys...

1,700

756.38

943.62

Slipway at Yamusti, Expenses

900

630.77

269.23

Steam Launch Hire

500

83.70

416.30

Do.

Transport

900

146.77

753.28

Triennial Inspection of Launch Boilers ...

2,400

277.85

2.122,65

Uniforms for Boarding Officers, Bouthien,

and Messengers.....

2,300

1,813.05

486.95

SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.

Explanatory Remarks.

Revision in the "fog marks" necessitating a further supply of 5000 charges to Savings.

[Waglan Lighthouse.

New moorings required for Police launch at Taipo.

Construction of the tug not completed.

Typhoon Moatings

Relief Buoy for S.L. Victoria....

Motor Launch for Govt. Slipway

74,000 300 8,000

54,280.00

19,720.00

Savings.

Rescue Tug, Construction of

185,000

800.00 7,900.00 184,250.00

100.00 750.0

Do.

Do., Lloyds Fees for Classifica-

tion....

2,300

2,800.00

Do..

Wireless Telegraph and

Telephone Set for.......

9,800

Wireless Telegraph and Tolephone Set

for Harbour Office......

4,500

7,158.15

3,851.25

2,641.85

648.75

Patrol Launches, Construction of........

300,000

Do.,

Wireless Telegraph and

Telephone Set

4 Patrol Launches, Upkeep of

Kelvinators for Gap Rock and Waglan

16,000 133,000

300,000.00

16,000.00

Lighthouses

1,850

142,872.66

1,125.00

9,872.66

10,100.00

725.00

Lees Increse ...............--------

Savings...

1,203,072 638.193.11

11.986.07

884,924.96 11.998.07

372,988.80

17,544.00

Carried forward

1,852,642 1,468,454.85

26,872.84

410,959.90

Do.

Do.

Construction abandoned.

Heavy expenditure on Stores by Naval Authorities.

Purchase not completed.

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