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credit balance must now be paid in cash.

the increase of $25,000 in sub-head 20.

reduced.

This is represented by

The staff of the Statistical office has been slightly

Head 10. A. Harbour Department.

The increases in Other Charges are due to increased

cost of coal, lower rate of exchange, and cost of certain repairs

and replacements the necessity for which recurs, not annually,

but at intervals of several years, as in the case of chain cable,

sub-head 2.

The engines of the "Kau Sing's" motor boat and of the

launch H.D.8 have become unserviceable and their replacement cannot further be postponed.

It is considered necessary as a precautionary measure

to provide a safe, in which to keep the keys of the stores of

the Green Island Explosives Depot.

Head 10. B. Air Services.

There has been a slight net reduction in Other Charges.

The items under Special Expenditure represent essential equipment

for an airport used by regular commercial air lines. Since the

Estimates for 1936 were passed the Hong Kong-Penang Service of

Imperial Airways, Ltd., has been established and the possibility

that other commercial services may make use of the airport must

be provided for.

Head 11. Royal Observatory.

Provision was made in the Estimates for 1936 for the

institution of the Aviation Meteorological Service and in

connection with this service it has since been found necessary

to increase the staff of telegraphist-computers by one Class V

officer.

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