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EXPENDITURE

Abstract of actual and estimated expenditure for the period 1947 to 1951

HEAD OF EXPENDITURE.

Actual Expenditure

1947-48

$

Actual Expenditure 1948-49

REVENUE

Approved

Estimate

1949-50

Approved Estimate for 1950-51

DETAILS OF REVENUE

Approved Estimate 1949-50

Estimate

1950-51

$

$

$

1. H.E. the Governor

3. Audit Department

240,574

212,680

231,297

230,285

$

2. Agriculture Department

196,720

357,814

730,228

813,135

1-DUTIES

175,078

247,528

243,807

247,023

4. Civil Aviation Department

254,590

566,041

834,430

5. Colonial Secretariat and Legislature

691,378

954,861

1,098,644

1,136,379 1,177,833

1. Import duty on hydrocarbon oils

5,750,000

2.

Import duty on liquor

6,000,000

7,000,000 6,000,000

(1)

3.

Import duty on perfumed spirits

250,000

6. Department of Commerce and In-

dustry

554,370

1,037,651

1,288,179

1,236,167

4.

Import duty on tobacco

16,250,000

5.

Duty on locally-manufactured liquor

2,500,000

7. Co-operatives and Marketing

6.

Duty on proprietary medicines and toilet preparations.

2,500,000

300,000 (2) 18,000,000

(3)

3,000,000 (1) 3,000,000 (2)

A Fish Marketing Organiza-

tion

73,927

79,322

7.

Duty on table waters

1,000,000

2,000,000 (1) (4)

20222

9. Education Department

14. Hong Kong Defence Force

B-Vegetable Marketing Or-

ganization

8. District Office New Territories

10. Fire Brigade

11. Fisheries Department

12. Forestry Department

13. Gardens Department

A-Hong Kong Regiment B-Hong Kong Naval Force C-Hong Kong Auxiliary Air

Force

84,084

76,225

Total

34,250,000

39,300,000

150,836

365,267

365,990

383,208

6,444,816

11,703,081

5,085,335

5,443,781

2-RATES

569,476

947,603

1,184,104

1,382,027

71,737

62,602

121,593

106,641

1.

Hong Kong

10,000,000

176,066

483,086

429,896

410,230

2.

Kowloon

5,500,000

13,000,000 8,500,000

169,723

413,949

349,381

341,487

3. New Territories

16,300

72,775

620,392

2,285,303

1,049,316

Total

15,516,300

18,000 (5)

21,518,000

000

(5)

(5)

2,714

47,267

209,282

568,567

135,930

123,400

3-INTERNAL REVENUE

15. Inland Revenue Department

311,569

593,096

815,205

889,555

16. Kowloon Canton Railway

2,995,237

4,361,198

5,443,695

5,007,031

1.

Bets and sweeps tax

3,500,000

17. Labour Department

136,888

236, 845

286,335

291,119

2.

Business registration tax

4,000,000 (6) 6,000,000

18. Legal Department

308,814

524,189

372,874

657,443

3.

Dance halls tax

375,000

(7) 500,000 (6)

4.

Earnings and profits tax

19. Magistracies

A-Hong Kong Magistracy

92,835

116,389

130,099

135,798

5.

Entertainment tax

B-Kowloon Magistracy

63,313

104,987

112,782

114,509

6.

Estate duty

40,000,000 3,500,000 2,000,000

44,000,000 (8)

5,000,000 (6)

2,000,000

20. Marine Department

3,368,156

21. Medical Department

7,023,423

4,275,932 12,924,505

4,934,137

6,169,258

7.

Meals and liquor tax

2,750,000

3,000,000

(6)

22. Miscellaneous Services

60,763,921

57,386,656

12,749,022 37,832,100

12,668,351

8.

Stamp duties

9,400,000

12,000,000

(4)

37,521,500

23. Pensions

5,922,336

24. Police Force

6,627,702

6,499,716 10,715,689

6,720,000 12,633,722

7,870,000 15,553,762

Total

61,525,000

76,500,000

25. Post Office, Broadcasting, and Tele-

4-LICENCES, FINES, AND FORFEITURES

communications

A-Post Office

1,668,270

26. Prisons Department

B-Broadcasting

C-Telecommunications

27. Public Debt

201,632

615,615

2,514,370

2,932,582 242,614 784,289 3,030,449

1,862,285

4,009,900

3,664,958 345,899 979,314 3,934,617 5,486,841

4,195,644

A-LICENCES

422,833

1.

Air services

3,500

5,000

(9)

955,979

2.

Arms

30,000

30,000

4,268,341

3.

Auctioneers

1,800

1,800

5,084,631

4.

Bakehouses

9,000

9,000

28. Public Relations Office

56,023

72,494

141,808

192,042

5.

Banks

600,000

700,000

(3)

29. Public Works Department

2,487,870

3,643,255

4,349,180

5,434,368

6.

Billiard tables

5,700

6,000

(3)

30. Public Works Recurrent

6,234,522

9,747,900

12,632,000

16,633,000

7.

Boats

250,000

350,000

(10)

31. Public Works Non-Recurrent

886,055

2,604,141

19,618,000

32. Rating and Valuation Department.

161,644

196,901

33. Registrar General's Department

166,750

29,184,563 212,259 196,351

8.

Cafes

5,500

6,000 (3)

9. Cattle, goats, and swine

9,000

5,000 (11)

10.

Chinese boarding houses

14,000

20,000

(9)

34. Royal Observatory

199,414

35. Sanitary Department and Urban

Council

1,761,802

291,386

4,313,058

404,588

5,724,186

415,046

11. Companies, local registers

25,000

25,000

12. Dairies

2,000

2,000

7,444,297

13. Dance halls

7,200

7,200

36. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs

A-Secretariat for Chinese

Affairs

B-Social Welfare Office

C-District Watch Force

14. Dangerous goods

30,000

35,000

15. Dangerous and offensive trades

25,000

27,000 (9)

99

(9)

179,666 1,244,244 52,709

172,759 1,005,033

177,111

187,031

16. Dogs

70,000

70,000

812,176

756,341

17.

Electric signs

250,000

(7)

183,343

186,069

168,131

37. Statistical Department

19.

18. Emigration passage brokers

Factories

3,200

3,200

100,000

100,000

A-Statistical Department

114,606

131,188

131,707

20. Ferries

414,000

422,400

(9)

B-Registration Branch

297,560

21.

Fishing stakes and stations

800

800

38. Stores Department

8,175,983

7,874,312

39. Subventions

199,396

878,547

6,591,432 13,245,721

5,564,002

22. Food factories

20,000

25,000

(9)

40. Department of Supplies and Dis-

14,326,900 | 23. Food-preserving establishments

24. Forestry, New Territories

25,000

23,000

(11)

4,000

4,000

tribution

680,734

731,968

792,486

832,349

25.

Game

20,000

30,000 (9)

41. Supreme Court

242,078

329,041

422,381

448,103

26.

Hawkers

500,000

500,000

42. Treasury

754,906

726,224

780,245

801,347

27. Hydrocarbon oils

30,000

30,000

43. Colonial Development and Welfare

28.

Junks

80,000

80,000

Schemes

219,435

2,316,480

570,700

29.

Laundries

5,000

6,300

(9)

44. Custodian of Property

118,637

57,993

42,600

42,156

30. Liquor

850,000

900,000

(9) (10)

45. Quartering Authority

204,199

31.

Marine-store dealers

35,000

46. Essential Services Corps

60,000 (9)

185,851

32.

Marriage

24,000

Development Secretariat

33.

Massage

1,800

24,000

1,000 (8)

A--Directorate

54,123

48,493

34.

Milk shops

2,700

3,000 (9)

B-Fisheries Research Station. District Office, South

12,533

19,133

35.

113,260

Miscellaneous

36. Money changers

12,000

12,000

60,000

55,000 (8)

Total

127,701,174 159,954,023

179,924,312

200,839,083

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