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Wednesday, May 23, 1973

SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS FOR OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1972

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The Legislative Council today approved supplementary provisions

amounting to $171.5 million for the third quarter of the financial year

1972/73.

This included $10.5 million for the payment of backwages to teachers

in government and aided schools as a result of the revision of salaries in

1971.

Public works non-recurrent accounted for $80 million.

of this,

$29 million was required as a result of more rapid progress on a number of

existing projects and a further $19 million to meet payments on clearance

and repair work in respect of highways damaged by the summer rainstorms

last year.

Other items included, $3.9 million for applying the pay scales for

government nurses to the nursing staff of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals,

$1.5 million as a capital subvention towards the cost of the Yan Chai Hospital,

and $2.7 million for expenses of the Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign in 1972.

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