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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL

Heads and Sub-Heads.

Estimated.

Actual.

Brought forward.......................

2,903,975

2,346,621.40

EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.

Increase.

Decrease.

Provisionally

Voted.

$

27.855.95

584,709.55

Explanatory Remarks.

ROYAL OBSERVATORY :—

Personal Emoluments

87,081

30,903.55

Books and Postage

150

132.06

717.45 17.04

Electric Light and Power

500

508.18

3.18

Lapsing salaries.

Gus.....

10X

99.44

Incidental Expenses...

120

70.99

Laboratory Expouses

{X00

814.60)

50 48.01 83,40

Printing and distribution of Meteorological

Bulletin ...............

3,300

2,922.75

377.25

Transport

100

80.46

Maintenance of Timo Service ........................

150

Meterological Telegrams...

101.88 · 851.50

10.54 49.02

851.50

2,000.00:

Special Expenditure.

Under-estimated.

Bavings. Do.

Printing of evening weather report diacontinued from 12th September

Savings.

Vote taken in July but expenditure for five months only brought to account

Magnetic instruments

8,000

50,401

8,000,00

41,955.51

854.68

Less Increase.......

Savings.....

9,800.17 854.68

8,445.49

4,000.00

6,000.00

Instruments ordered but not received.

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES;

Bathing Places, North Point, Kennedy Town, and Stonecutter's Islud

10,500

9,117.24

British Empire Exhibition

Bonuses for Interpreters and Translators...

1,000

1,382.70 1,000.00

Bungalows Committee, Caretakers .........................

240

Coal for Offices.......

2,000

205.197.38 240,00 1,064.54

205,197,58

£25,000.0.0

Crown Agents' Commission

7,500

12,678.04

5,178.64

Entertainment of Foreigu Sailors

20,000

395.46

20,000,00

6,100.00

More commission paid during the year.

Over-estimated.

No bonus paid.

The Continuance of the Exhibition in 1925 was not anticipated when the

[estimates were made up

Milder winter.

Furniture for Government Offices and

Qurtera...

55,500

Geological Survey of Colony

14,000

59.193.86 10,831.20

3,633.30

3,108.80

6,600.00

More furniture.

Over-estimated.

Grauss in aid of Scientific Institutions :—

British Empire Leprosy Assiciation,

London (£100)

889

842.11

46.89

British Engineering Standards

Association, (£15)

134

132.11

1.89

Higher exchange.

Cancer Research Faud, (£80)..

267

257.14

9.86

Do.

Colonial Advisory Medical and

Do.

Sanitary Committee. (£25)

223

78.84

149.16

Imperial Bureau of Entomology,

Do.

London (£300)

2,087

2,520.82

140.08

Imperial Bureau of Mycology,

Do.

Lorton (173)

607

031.58

85.42

Institution of Civil Engineers ;

Do.

Committee on Deterioration

of Structures exposed to Neu Action (150).

445

432.43

12.57

London School of Hygiene Tropical

Medicine, (£100)

Do.

889

842.11

46.89

Tropical Disenses Research Fund,

Do.

(£100)

BRO

857.14

81.80

Tropical Diseases Bureau, London,

Do.

(£900)

2,087

2,571.48

95.57

Do.

Carried forward

Carried forward.

120,477 308,028.77

2,954,376 2,388,576.91

214,009.58

28,210.68

26,457.61

594,009.72

£25,000.0.0 12,700,00

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