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Ticket Inspectors on trains has been so succesful in preventing the loss of revenue that the proposed addition 1 expenditure on the two now posts is expected to bo amply recouped in additinal rovonuc.

Several economics have also been made under Other Charges and in practically all cases the provision for 1949-50 is less than for the current financial year. The chief exception is for Miscellaneous Allowances which has been increased in order to provide for the revised rates of cost of living allowances recently authorised. The nett reduction in Other Charges amounts to $1,026,746.

Under Special Expenditure further provision in the five years plan for relaying and renewing the permanent way is provided for. Other items cover a building programme, the major item of which is the repair of workshops costing $190,000 which are required in order to provido secure accommodation for large quantities of machines and tools which are beginning to arrive from the United Kingdom. The sum of $180,000 is also provided to cover part of the cost of providing adequate railway facilities for the new Wo Hop Shek Cemetery which it is planned to open in the New Territories and for which a further sum of $500,000 is provided under Public Works Extraordinary.

Expenditure on the Kowloon Canton Railway for 1949-50 shows a reduction of $1,206,685 on the current your's estimates.

Head 17. Labour Department.

Estimate 1949-50.

Revised Estimate 1948-49.

Approved Estimate 1948-49.

Actual Expenditure 1947-48.

$286,335

240,000

262,029

136,888

The opportunity has been taken to bring tho

title of this department into line with other departments and it has been altered from Labour Office to Labour Department. There has been one increase in the establishment, namely, a Woman Labour Inspector.

Minor changes under Other Charges cancel cach other out and the provision is the same as in 1948-49. Expenditure on the Head has rison by $24,306.

Head 18, Legal Department.

Estimate 1949-50.

Revised Estimate 1948-49. Approved Estimate 1948-49. Actual expenditure 1947-48.

$370,874

560,000

548,140

308,814

Reorganisation of the Judicial and Legal Departments involving the creation of a new department called the Registrar General's Department has resulted in a number of transfers of staff especially clerical staff. As a consequence of these transfers the cost of porsonal emoluments for the Logal Department has fallon by $178,466, and the expenditure figures of previous years do not afford a true basis of comparison.