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10. As a result of the Ottawa Conference it was decided that, although the Free Trade conditions of Hong Kong give few openings for reciprocity, motor vehicles provided an opportunity for adopting the principle of preference. A general import duty, although possible, might have interfered with the entrepôt trade which it is so desirable to encourage in the Colony and it was decided that effect should be given to the principle at the time of registration for use in the Colony. It was therefore enacted by Ordinance No. 32 of 1932 that motor vehicles which are not Empire products should be subject to a special licence fee on first registration of an amount equal to twenty per cent of the value, including cost, insurance and freight of such vehicle, on its arrival in the Colony after deduction of the value of the tyres and of any spare wheels or other spare parts. It will be seen therefore that foreign motor vehicles may be stored in the Colony and re-exported without tax but immediately they are sold for use in the Colony the special licence fee becomes payable.
Expenditure.
11. The expenditure for the year amounted to $32,050,283 against an estimate of $34.981,661 a decrease of $2,931,378. The total sum of $32,050,283 is made up as follows:
Ordinary Expenditure
$29,082,423
Extraordinary Expenditure Public Works.......
Part payment to the Admiralty for surrender of the Naval Arsenal Yard and Kellett Island
1,967,860
1,000,000
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Heads of Expenditure.
Actual 1931
Estimates, 1982
Actual 1932
His Excellency the Governor Cadet Service
Senior Clerical and Accounting
Staff
Legislature
$
C.
170,605.97 636,078,97
209,720
753 321
$
165,097.86 554,240.58
4.
341,045.84
Junior Clerical Service
871,431.71
409,634 973,480
302,843.48
932,571.81
Colonial Secretary's Office and
68,228.05*
79,946
60.372.98
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
2,808.46
27.938
28.607.63
71,280.67
115.580
92,138.35
81,080 71 22.958.36
97,054
59 888 07
26, 67
22,005.73
11,041.82
13.6+4
11,151,33
406,2 5.3
448,592
457,655.03
148,677.96
156.604
152,214.25
802.437
1,298,×65
1,020.784 67
695,074.02
11,545.81
Treasury...
Audit Department District Office, North
Do,
South
(A)-Post Office
(B) Do. Wireless Telegraph
Services
Imports and Exports Office (A)-Harbour Department
(B)— Do.
Royal Observatory Fire Brigade... Supreme Court
---
Air Service..
Attorney General's Office Crown Solicitor's Office Official Receiver's Office Land Office Magistracy, Hong Kong
Do.. Kowloon Police Force ... Prison Department
1,031,294 48 462 648, 2 26.691.12 74,137,85 35.0 6.77 185,316.02 50,632 92 55,252 64
1. 92.66
52.807
8,160
363,905
68,184.87 297,080.17
209 00
172 095.89
50.190
38.717.16
70.66%
65.003.76
20,7 : 1.14 42,163 90
24.641
18.806.12
48,601
37.135.93
1,990.37
2,27 +
2,088.09
2 117
3,075,359
778.119.73
942,910
Medical Department
1,336,923.89
1,628,76+
Sanitary Department
851,751 65
1,033,504
Botanical & Forestry Department
11,6-3.84
129,670
Education Department
1,707.567 9+
2,046.096 959,026
HR
2,768,161.31
Kowloon-Canton Kailway (4)-Volunteer Defence Corps...
(B) Military Contribution
Miscellaneous Services
879,2 1.25 97,083.26 4,932.595.36
132 944 6,366.567
1,733.12 2,520.708.37 765.777 66 1.285.571.04 846,.86 ×3 117.200.45 1,745 983 61 873,466.90 110.161.35 6,569.239.47
1 580.943.65 169,926.51
1,666,704.81
increase of
Ordinary Expenditure for the year was $29,082,423 against $28,785,843 in the preceding year showing an $296,580.
12. In the following table the actual expenditure for the year 1982 is compared with the expenditure of the previous year and with the estimates for 1932.
Public Works Department... Do. Recurrent
2,211,125.69
1,152,481
Charitable Services
+
174,585 90
175,762
Charge on Account of Public
Debt.
1,894,290 79
1.973,307
Pensions...
1,541,441.41
1,708,000
1,545,269.52
2,306.678.48
Public Works Extraordinary
1,581,926.75
28,785,842.01
2,374 931,99
31,160,774.00
2,335,1.4 2,116.882.14 1,521,800 1,900,619.99
Expenditure from Surplus
Balances...
31,808,116 29,082,423,32
2,173,545 1,967,860.20
33,931,661 31,050,283.52
1,000,000 1,000,000.00
TOTAL...
31,160,774.00
34,981,661 32,050,283,52
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