CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940 — Page 21

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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL

Heads and Sub-Heads.

Estimated.

Actual.

Increase.

Decrease.

EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1939

ó

Provisionally Voted.

Explanatory Remarks.

$

$

$

Brought forward

732,022

655,928.87

1,911.60

78,004.73

2,217.00

3.-AUDIT DEPARTMENT.

Sub-heads:-

1 Personal Emoluments

116,051

106,043.85

10,007.15

Lapsing salaries.

6.37 151.85

Lapsing allowances.

Less travelling.

OTHER CHARGES.

2 Conveyance Allowances

1,245

1,008.05

3 Incidental Expenses

325

305.06

236.95 19.94

4

Share of Home Expenditure (£293)......

4.767

4,760.63

5 Transport and Travelling

480

122,868

328.15

112,445.74

10,422.26

Total Audit Department

Less Increase

Savings

4. BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY

Sub-heads:-

DEPARTMENT,

1 Personal Emoluments

89,858 1 88,018.07

OTHER CHARGES.

1

10,422.26

1,834.93

Lapsing salaries.

2 Brushwood Clearing

3 Conveyance Allowances

7,000

3,000

4.941.32 8,068.78

2,058.68

Over estimated.

68.78

100.00

4

Expenses of Collections

200

167.50

32.50

5

Extraction of Timber

2,500

2,400.81

99.19

6 Field allowances to Foresters

800

896.75

96.75

150.00

7 Forestry

19,500

21,333.34

1,833.34

2,000.00

8 Forestry Reserve, Taipo Kau: Main-

tenance and Forination

3,000

2,591.25

408.75

More men on outstation duty.

More protective measures.

Over estimated.

9 Incidental Expenses

400

381.20

18.80

10 Library

450

254.54

195.46

do.

11 Light

400

356.41

43.59

12 Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds

11.500

10.056.59

1,443.41

13

Protection of Plantations

1,500

1,371.69

128.31

14 Tools and Nursery Supplies

15 Transport

16 Uniforms and Accoutrements

17 Upkeep of Car

600

539.86

60.64

1.700

1,259.51

440.49

Less supply of nursery stocks and flower pots from Canton due to Sino-

Over estimated.

[Japanese hostilities.

1,250

1,189.84

60.16

1,000

664.50

335.50

Over estimated.

SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.

18 Planting Flowering Shrubs

2,000

1.856.88

143.12

19 One Motor Mowing Machine

2,000

1.912.90

87.10

20 Six Small Mowing Machines

600

440.57

159.43

21 Temporary Quarters for Forest Pro-

tection Staff

2,700

—

2,700.00

22 Agricultural Developments

1,359.60

1,359.60

1,500.00

Not required. .New item.

Total Botanical and Forestry

Department

151,958

145,081.41

3,358.47

10,250.06

3,750.00

Less Increase

3,858.47

Savings

--

6,891.59

Carried forward

1,006,843

913,436.02

5,270.07

98,677.05

5,967.00

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