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Actual Expenditure
1947-48
EXPENDITURE
Abstract of actual and estimated expenditure for the period 1947 to 1951
HEAD OF EXPENDITURE.
Approved Estimate
1949-50
$4
Approved Estimate for 1950-51
REVENUE
Actual Expenditure
1948-49
DETAILS OF REVENUE
Approved Estimate 1949-50
Estimate 1950-51
$
$
$
$
240,574
212,680
231,297
230,285
$
1. H.E. the Governor
2. Agriculture Department
3. Audit Department
196,720
357,814
730,228
813,135
1-DUTIES
175,078
247,328
243,807
247,023
4. Civil Aviation Department
254,590
566,641
834,430
1,136,379
5. Colonial Secretariat and Legislature
691,378
954,861
1,098,644
1,177,833
1.
Import duty on hydrocarbon oils
5,750,000
2.
Import duty on liquor
6,000,000
7,000,000 (1) 6,000,000
6. Department of Commerce and In-
3.
Import duty on perfumed spirits
250,000
dustry
554,370
1,037,651
1,288,179
1,236,167
4.
Import duty on tobacco
16,250,000
7. Co-operatives and Marketing
5.
Duty on locally-manufactured liquor
2,500,000
300,000 (2) 18,000,000
3,000,000 (1)
(3)
A-Fish Marketing Organiza-
tion
6.
73,927
79,322
Duty on proprietary medicines and toilet preparations.
2,500,000
3,000,000 (2)
7.
Duty on table waters
1,000,000
2,000,000 (1) (4)
14. Hong Kong Defence Force
B-Vegetable Marketing Or-
ganization
8. District Office New Territories
9. Education Department
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
15. Inland Revenue Department
84,084
76,225
Total
150,836
6,444,816
365,267 11,703,081
365,990
383,208
34,250,000 39,300,000
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
176,066
483,086
429,896
169,723
413,949
349,381
410,230 341,487
2.
1. Hong Kong
Kowloon
10,000,000
13,000,000
5,500,000
3. New Territories
16,300
72,775
620,392
2,285,303
2,714
47,267
209,282
1,049,316 568,567
Total
15,516,300
8,500,000 (5) 18,000 (5)
21,518,000
000
(5)
135,930
123,400
3-INTERNAL REVENUE
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
136,888
236, 845
286,335
291,119
3,500,000
17. Labour Department
2.
Business registration tax
18. Legal Department
308,814
524,189
372,874
657,443
4,000,000 (6) 6,000,000
(7)
3.
Dance halls tax
19. Magistracies
4.
Earnings and profits tax
A-Hong Kong Magistracy
92,835
116,389
130,099
135,798
375,000 40,000,000
500,000 (6) 44,000,000
(8)
5.
Entertainment tax
B--Kowloon Magistracy
63,313
104,987
112,782
114,509
3,500,000
6.
Estate duty
5,000,000 (6)
20. Marine Department
3,368,156
4,275,932
4,934,137
6,169,258
7. Meals and liquor tax
2,000,000
2,000,000
21. Medical Department
7,023,423
12,924,505
12,749,022
12,668,351
2,750,000
3,000,000 (6)
8. Stamp duties
22. Miscellaneous Services
60,763,921
57,386,656
37,832,100
37,521,500
9,400,000
12,000,000
(4)
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
B-Broadcasting
C-Telecommunications
26. Prisons Department
27. Public Debt
201,632
615,615
2,514,370
2,932,582 242,614 784,289 3,030,449
3,664,958 345,899 979,314 3,934,617
4,195,644
A-LICENCES
422,833
1. Air services
955,979
3,500
5,000
2,
Arms
(9)
4,268,341
30,000
30,000
3.
Auctioneers
1,862,285
4,009,900
5,486,841
5,084,631
1,800
1,800
4.
Bakehouses
28. Public Relations Office
56,023
72,494
141,808
192,042
9,000
9,000
5. Banks
29. Public Works Department
2,487,870
3,643,255
4,349,180
5,434,368
600,000
700,000
(3)
6.
Billiard tables
30. Public Works Recurrent
6,234,522
9,747,900
12,632,000
16,633,000
5,700
6,000
(3)
7.
Boats
31. Public Works Non-Recurrent
886,055
2,604,141
19,618,000
29,184,563
250,000
350,000
8.
Cafes
(10)
32. Rating and Valuation Department.
161,644
196,901
212,259
5,500
6,000
(3)
9.
Cattle, goats, and swine
33. Registrar General's Department
166,750
196,351
9,000
5,000
10.
Chinese boarding houses
(11)
34. Royal Observatory
35. Sanitary Department and Urban
Council
36. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
A-Secretariat for Chinese
Affairs
C-District Watch Force
199,414
1,761,802
291,386
4,313,058
404,588
5,724,186
415,046
14,000
20,000
11. Companies, local registers
(9)
25,000
25,000
12. Dairies
7,444,297
2,000
2,000
13. Dance halls
7,200
7,200
14. Dangerous goods
30,000
35,000
(9)
179,666
B-Social Welfare Office
1,244,244 52,709
172,759 1,005,033
177,111
187,031
15. Dangerous and offensive trades
25,000
27,000 (9)
16.
Dogs
812,176
756,341
70,000
70,000
17.
183,343
186,069
168,131
Electric signs
250,000
(7)
18.
Emigration passage brokers
37. Statistical Department
3,200
3,200
19.
Factories
A-Statistical Department
114,606
131,188
131,707
100,000
100,000
20. Ferries
B-Registration Branch
297,560
414,000
422,400
38. Stores Department
8,175,983
7,874,312
6,591,432
39. Subventions
199,396
878,547
13,245,721
5,564,002 14,326,900
21. Fishing stakes and stations
(9)
800
800
22.
Food factories
20,000
25,000
(9)
40. Department of Supplies and Dis-
tribution
23. Food-preserving establishments
25,000
23,000
680,734
731,968
792,486
41. Supreme Court
242,078
329,041
422,381
42. Treasury
754,906
726,224
780,245
832,349 448,103 801,347
24. Forestry, New Territories
4,000
4,000
25. 26.
Game
20,000
30,000
Hawkers
a at a
(11)
500,000
500,000
43. Colonial Development and Welfare
27. Hydrocarbon oils
30,000
30,000
Schemes
219,435
2,316,480
570,700
29.
44. Custodian of Property
118,637
57,993
42,600
42,156
45. Quartering Authority
46. Essential Services Corps
204,199 185,851
30. Liquor
31.
28. Junks
Laundries
Marine-store dealers
80,000
80,000
5,000
6,300
850,000
900,000
35,000
60,000
Development Secretariat
A-Directorate
District Office, South
32. Marriage
24,000
24,000
âââ
(9)
(9) (10)
(9)
54,123
48,493
33. Massage
1,800
1,000
(8)
B-Fisheries Research Station.
34.
12,533
19,133
Milk shops
2,700
3,000
(9)
35.
113,260
Miscellaneous
12,000
12,000
36. Money changers
60,000
55,000
(8)
Total
127,701,174 159,954,023
179,924,312
200,839,083
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