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REVENUE

DETAILS OF REVENUE.

Approved Estimate

Estimate 1939.

1938.

$

2,029,800

2,172,451

Brought forward

3.-LICENCES & INTERNAL REVENUE

NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.

(A) LICENCES,--Continued.

Vehicles, Other Drivers, etc.

2,000

Vehicles, Motor Special Licensing Fee-Foreign Registration... Wireless Receiving

40,000

100,000

2,000 80,000 (1) 135,000 (2)

Other

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7,500

5,700

(B) INTERNAL REVENUE.

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Entertainment Tax

Assessed Taxes (Rates)

Assessed Taxes (Rates) N.T. North

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Bets and Sweeps Tax

Estate Duty

6,000,000

6,200,000 (3)

7,600

South

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3,600

4,350

7,650 } (4)

120,000

225,000

200,000 (5) 300,000 (5)

1,250,000

1,250,000

Stamp Duties

2,150,000

2,300,000 (6)

Water Excess Supply & Meter Rents

1,900,000

2,096,000 (7)

(C) FINES & FORFEITURES.

Building Covenant Fines

5,000

15,000 (8)

Fines

134,000

150,000 (9)

Forfeitures

30,000

40,000 (9)

Total

14,004,500

14,958,151

4. FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, and REIMBURSE-

MENTS IN AID:

(A) FEES.

Air Services

Ambulance and Cremation

Analysis

Bills of Health

20,000 700

35,000

9,000

Births and Deaths Registration

6,500

70,000 (10) 1,000 (11) 35,000 9,000

9,000 (12)

Blake Pier Tickets

300

250

Boundary Stones & Survey Fees

30,000

30,000

Cemetery

750

750

Certificates to Chinese Proceeding to America

500

500

China Companies

210,000

210,000

Chinese Cemetery

6,500

13,000 (13)

Court

85,000

85,000

Crown Leases

48,000

40,000 (14)

Deeds Registration

76,000

72,000 (15)

Earth and Stone Permits N. T.

5,500

5,500

Engagement and Discharge of Seamen

50,000

50,000

Evening Institute

8,000

8,000

Examination of Masters, Mates and Engineers

1,500

1,500

Gunpowder Storage

30,000

30.000

Hong Kong Companies Registration

20,000

20,000

Maternity Home Registration

500

450

Medical Examination of Emigrants

220,000

220,000

Miscellaneous

14,500

7,000 (16)

Money Lenders

Motor Ambulance

Motor Driving Tests

Official Certificates

Official Signatures

Passport

Possession

2,000

2.000

8,000

10,000 (17)

5,000 (16)

35,000

20,000 (9)

22,000

27,000 (9)

24,000

25,000

30,000

30.000

Carried forward

$

999.250

1,036.950

(1) More foreign cars.

(2) More licences.

(3) Rise in rentals and less vacant tenements.

(4) Development expected in rateable areas.

(5) Increased attendances.

(6) 1mproved business conditions.

(7) Based on new rates. Increased consumption.

(8) More fines imposed.

(9) Variable.

(10) Large increase in services using Air Port.

(11) More diseased carcases cremated.

(12) More registration.

(13) More burials.

(14) Fewer Crown Leases issued.

(15) Less Deeds registered.

(16) New Head.

(17) More patients conveyed.

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