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Expenditure of the Colony of Hong Kong for the Year 1948/49.

Comparative Statement of the Estimated and Actual

Supplementary

Heads and Sub-heads

Estimated

Actual

Over the Estimate

Under the

Votes

Estimate

$

$

$

$

$

35,608.204.00

Brought Forward

84,601,662

106.318,949.67

32,465.048.95

10.747.761.28

POLICE FORCE,-Contd.

Brought Forward

8.649.481

8.839.432.00

189.951.06

197.868.00

Explanatory Remarks

Other Charges, Contd.

Sub-heads:-

4. Barrack conservancy and main-

tenance of grounds

5. Cleaning of offices

4.000

700

461.00

103.00

3.539.00

6. Clothing and accoutrements

600.000

420,875.04

7.

Fuel, light and power

300.000

237.459.35

62.540.65

597.00

179,124.96

Overestimated.

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do -

Delay in receipt of supplies ordered from abroad,

Free allowances for fuel and light for subordinate officers abolished with

effect from 1.7.48.

8.

Grants to villages for Village

Scout scheme

1.800

1.800.00

9.

Identification of criminals

7.000

3.249.14

3.750.86

10. Incidental expenses

41,000

31.947.83

9.052.17

11. Interpretation fees

500

65.00

435.00

12. Maintenance of plant and

Fewer identification parades required.

Reduction in consumption of water.

Fewer payments.

Delay in receipt of accounts for supplies from abroad.

equipment

9.000

13. Medals

3.500

14. Passages for deportees, etc.

45.000

6.159.13

1.032.52

100,085.27

2.840.87

2.467.48

55,300.00

55.085.27

do

S.Ws. 57B & 296. More deportees and repatriates,

Fewer requirements.

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-

15. Passports

4.000

2.669.20

1.330.80

3.482.00 S.W. 337.

16. Photographic materials

20.000

23.481.66

3.481.66

17.

Police Reserve expenses

4.600

3.600.00

1.000.00

18. Publications

4.200

2.816.22

1.383.78

4.000.00

S.W. 57B.

19.

Remand Home juvenile offenders

4.000

3.953.49

46.51

20.

Rent of stations and quarters

|

180.000

100.077.33

21. Rewards

22. Special services

35.000

160,000

18.217.00

267.037.11

79,922.67

16.783.00

115.000.00

107.037.11

23. Stores and equipment

89.400

151.205.69

61.805.69

24. Subsistence and travelling allow- ances of witnesses and prisoners

75.000

25. Teachers' allowances

9.000

90.626.71

12.537.00

15.626.71

17.500.00

S.W. 186.

4.400.00 S.W. 174B.

More teachers.

Additional purchases proved necessary.

Fees for First Aid Lecturer for part of 1948/49 paid from 1949/50 vote.

Fewer books required.

Fewer charges than anticipated.

Fewer rented quarters required.

Fewer rewards payable.

S.Ws. 83. 183 & Special Services expenditure was heavier than anticipated.

211.

61.806.00 S.W. 329B.

Cost of stores higher than estimated, and cost of certain stores wrongly

charged to this vote.

More prisoners detained.

3,537.00

459.356.00

Carried Forward

10.247,181

10.318.890.75

436.524.50

364.814.75

35.608.204.00

Carried Forward

84.601.662

106.318.949.67

32.465,048.95

10,747,761.28

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