CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940 — Page 11

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Census Centenary Police

Prisons

A.R.P.

Coll.

inserted (i.e. the special war expenditure and accelerated work on a new fire station) a

are described

in the last two enclosures to (1). I mentioned

some of the most noticeable of them in my previous

minute, but not the proposed new Labor Office

Teachers Training costing $448,894 (Head 27B). It will be seen, however,

that this is dependent on the passing of new labor

legislation said to be in preparation (probably a

consequence of the Butters Report) about which we had

not previously heard. Judging by past experience

of such matters in Hong Kong this will not happen in

1940/41.

I notice also, under Head 9 (Education),

increased expenditure resulting from a new Code for

Subsidies to schools which I do not think we have been

sent, though I believe we asked to see it when ready.

There is also provision, on an increased scale, for

Scholarships at Hong Kong University which is

unexplained and which, as I have pointed out elsewhere,

almost certainly does not take account of the withdrawal

of His Majesty's Government's £300 grant for

King Edward VII Scholarships.

P.W.

The new undertakings under P. W. Extraordinary

for educational and similar purposes are

Tota Total cost.

Queer's College

1,200,000

1940/41.

5,000

Vernacular Girls'

College

194,000

50,000

Teachers' Training

College

267,000

235,000

Girls' Reformatory 200,000

5,000

The

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