Estimates-1947 — Page 161

SCHEDULE OF SPECIAL EXPENDITURE

161

Approved Estimate, 1941-42.

Estimate, 1946-1947.

$

Brought forward

$5 1,065,193

$

17,399,740

Medical stores and alterations to buildings,

Medical Defence Scheme

100,000

Microscope for Lai Chi Kok Temporary Chinese

Hospital

940

Microtome for Bacteriological Institute

Special instruments for Kennedy Town Infectious

Diseases Hospital

Sterilizing and storing apparatus Sterilizer for Tsan Yuk Hospital Two typewriters

Head 17.-MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES

54 Cost of operating electricity companies 55 Emoluments of Military officers on loan

56 Ex-gratia payments to Government employees not

interned

57 Foreign office claim in respect of relief payments. 58 Grant to Hong Kong University

59 Pre-occupation claims

60 Reinstatement of funds in custody of Treasury

Head 18. PENSIONS

Head 19. POLICE FORCE

42 Motor cars, launches, cameras, filing cabinets etc.

798

1,037

2,440

3,200

880

905,885

74,500

3,500,000

750,000

5,000,000

8,800,000

1,600,000 (1)

12,000,000

8,760,000

40,410,000

500,000

Five motor vans

25,000

Five typewriters

2,200

Forty pairs Peerless handcuffs

1,400

Four small motor cars

18,000

One adding machine

600

One Gestetner machine

2,000

One hundred 38 Short revolvers

14,400

One safe

250

Six solo motor cycles

8,000

Tear gas equipment

16,000

1,971,078

57,884,240

Carried forward

(1) £70,000 as a free grant and £30,000 as a loan

free of interest.