CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932 — Page 101

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Head 33.A. Volunteer Defence Corps shows considerable

decreases in Other Charges and less Special Expenditure

than usual.

Head 3. Miscellaneous Services. The grants to the

Civil Service Cricket Club, to the Royal Society of

Tropical Medicine and for the proposed History of

Hong Kong constitute commitments which have already been approved by Finance Committee, as also has the

increased subsidy for Broadcasting. It has been

necessary to insert a sum of $50,000 for the decennial Census due next year, and a lump sum of $50,000 for the

Chinese New Year bonus recommended by the Salaries

Commission. A new sub-head "Acting pay" has been

entered. This expenditure has as a rule been met

from the lapsing pay of cach department, but the

creation of the new sub-head is considered to be in

better order.

The general subsidy to the University

has been put at the revised 1930 figure of $350,000 for which approval was recently obtained in this Council.

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Head 35. Charitable Scrvices.

Only two additions are

made both of which I am sure will be acceptable to Hon.

Members, viz. grants to the Tung Wa Eastern Hospital and

to the Salvation Army.

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