Estimates-1939 — Page 19

Head 4.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT

Head 4.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY

Sub-heads :—

DEPARTMENT

1 Personal Emoluments

Other Charges.

Approved Estimate, 1938.

Estimate, 1939.

$

$

89,642

89,853

2 Brushwood Clearing. 3 Conveyance allowances 4 Expenses of Collections

7,000

7,000

2,500

3,000

(1)

200

200

5 Extraction of Timber

2,500

(2)

6 Field allowances to Foresters

800

800

7 Forestry

16,000

19,500

(3)

8 Forestry Reserve, Taipo Kau: Maintenance and Formation

3,000

3,000

9 Incidental Expenses

400

400

10 Library

300

450

(4)

11 Light

400

400

12 Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds.........................

11,000

11,500

(5)

13 Protection of Plantations

1,500

1,500

14 Tools and Nursery Supplies

600 (6)

15 Transport....

1,550

1,700 (1)

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16 Uniforms and Accoutrements

1,250

1,250

17 Upkeep of Car

1,100

1,000 (7)

Total Other Charges

47,000

54,800

Special Expenditure.

18 Planting Flowering Shrubs

2,000

19 One Motor Mowing Machine

20 Six Small Mowing Machines

21 Temporary Quarters for Forest Protection Staff..

Three new Mowing Machines

Total Special Expenditure

Total Botanical & Forestry Department......

Personal Emoluments.

Details of the foregoing.

...

937

2,937

139,579

2,000

2,000

(8)

600

(9)

2.700

(10)

(11)

7,300

151,953

NUMBERS.

1938

1939

1

1

Superintendent, (£700 for 2 years, then £730 to

£950 by 6 of £30, and 1 of £40 annually)

12,500

14,097

(12)

1

!

Assistant Superintendent, (£400 to £750 by 8 of

£25 and 5 of £30 annually)

9,600

6,818

(12)

Junior Clerical Service :·

1

Class II ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)

2,850 (13)

Class III, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)

2,600

(14)

2

Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160,

3 of $50 and 2 of $100)

1,265

1,466

(15)

1

1

Supervisor, (£260 to £350 by 5 of £10 and 2 of

£20)

5,600

5,600

Do.,

Language Allowance.

120

120

1

1

Assistant Supervisor, ($1,800 to $2,400 by $120

annually)

2,000

2,120

(15)

Do.,

Language Allowance

120

120

1

1

Do.,

Y

N

LO

1.

212

Herbarium Assistant, ($500 to $650 by $25 annually) Office Attendant, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially)...

Rent Allowance........

Messengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)

Do., Rent Allowances at $24 each Motor Drivers. ($550 to $650 by $50 annually) Storeman, ($500 to $950 by $50 annually)

Assistant Storemen, ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially,

Carried forward

Considered necessary.

(2) To supply firewood for Government use.

(3) Provision for additional daily labour.

(4) Includes provision for periodicals previously under

Head 18, Sub-head 28.

(5) Additional areas Queen Mary Hospital and

Central British School.

(6) For Queen Mary Hospital.

(7) Considered sufficient.

(8) For use at Kowloon Hospital and Central British

School.

(9) Considered necessary for uneven and sloping areas. (10) Re-arrangement of staff.

(11) Non-recurrent.

(12) Changes in personnel: revised scales of salary. (13) Promoted from Class III.

(14) Promoted to Class II. (15) Stipulated increments. (16) Changes in personnel.

604

629

(15)

204

192

(16)

24

24

335

324

(16)

48

48

1,300

1,300

938

554

(16)

600

552

(16)

37,858

36,814

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