Estimates-1959 — Page 11

EXPENDITURE

Abstract of actual and estimated expenditure for the period 1955 to 1959

HEAD OF EXPENDITURE

Actual

Actual

Revised Expenditure Expenditure Estimate

1955-56

1956-57

1957-58

Approved Estimate 1958-59

22 Police Force:

A-Hong Kong Police

35,024,254

38,255,664

45,122,000

57,355,900

B-Hong Kong Police (Auxiliaries)

1,222,473

1,211,591

1,601,000

1,528,300

23 Post Office

13,832,245 |

15,789,747

19,171,000

19,452,700

24 Printing Department

1,704,458

1,509,900

2,346,000

2,585,900

25 Prisons Department

5,266,299

6,193,447

7,435,000

8,586,900

26 Public Debt

3,333,080

3,306,588

3,277,000

3,247,710

27 Public Relations Office

460,955

508,196

639,000

758,800

28 Public Services Commission

34,012

34,510

36,000

29,400

29 Public Works Department

19.909,432

22,032,712

24,894,000

30,976,500

30 Public Works Recurrent

18,628,799

21,112,864

32,860,000

29,977,000

31 Public Works Non-Recurrent

81,433,819

112,836,529 131,763,000

186,750,000

32 Quartering

2,755,448

2,612,366

2,538,000

2,886,100

33 Rating and Valuation Department

442,280

489,327

639,000

725,100

34 Registrar General's Department

659,169

712,620

1,141,000

1,307,400

35 Registry of Trade Unions

125,123

156,667

188,000

192,600

36 Resettlement Department

5,499,235

5,408,936

6,345,000

7,571,100

37 Royal Observatory

1,255,514

1,415,220

2,226,000

2,182,500

38 Secretariat for Chinese Affairs:

A Secretariat for Chinese Affairs

447,274

439,029

551,000

663,500

B-District Watch Force

306,452

302,429

310,000

309,600

39 Social Welfare Department

2,444,241

2,435,091

3,011,000

3,286,600

40 Stores Department

9,095,193

41 Subventions

34,727,237

15,283,144 25,309,000

42,772,652

9,967,100

54,228,000 62,082,900

42 Treasury: —

Treasury.

Custodian of Property

43 Urban Services and Urban Council:

2,031,339 48,331

1,971,290 36,246

2,138,000 35,000

2,462,800

A-Head Office and Sanitary Division

15,149,850

B-Gardens Division

C--Housing Division

1,065,775 35,962

17,019,467 1,160,162 164,497

19,503,000 2,247,000 409,000

22,174,100

2,532,700

944,500

401,690,665

465,752,264

551,938,000

644,875,810

44 Colonial Development and Welfare Schemes....

772,977

3,792,034

3,656,000

3,245,900

Total

402,463,642

469,544,298 555,594,000

648,121,710

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