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PART II — EXPLANATORY NOTES ON EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES

GENERAL

Actual

Approved

expenditure

estimate

Revised estimate

Estimate

1967-68

1965-66

1966-67

$

$

1966-67 $

Personal Emoluments

Other Charges Annually Recurrent

Other Charges Special Expenditure

Total

553,871,331 618,562,900 623,819,000 691,836,300

465,461,660 535,252,410 559,712,000 673,756,810

749,797,477 724,623,900 662,553,000 557,007,000

1,769,130,468 1,878,439,210 1,846,084,000

1,922,600,110

The revised estimate of expenditure for 1966-67 is $32 million less than the approved estimate. In arriving at this figure, account has been taken of the supplementary provisions approved during the year to meet unforeseen expenditure. The following table summarizes the more important amounts over and under the estimates on the various Heads of expenditure:

Amount in $M

Head

Under

Over

Civil Aviation

1.3

Colonial Secretariat and Legislature

0.6

Commerce and Industry

3.5

Fire Services

1.9

Kowloon Canton Railway

1.2

Medical and Health

3.4

Miscellaneous Services

43.8

Pensions

10.5

Police Force: Hong Kong Police

1.0

Post Office

7.9

Prisons

1.2

Public Works Recurrent

13.8

Public Works Non-Recurrent:

Headquarters

16.7

Public Works Non-Recurrent:

Buildings

47.6

Public Works Non-Recurrent:

Civil Engineering

16.1

Public Works Non-Recurrent :

Waterworks

15.0

Social Welfare

1.4

Stores

3.5

Subventions:

Education

6.0

Subventions: Medical

1.1

Subventions: Miscellaneous

9.7

Urban Services Department and

Urban Council

3.3

Urban Services Department:

Housing Division

1.1

The Expenditure Estimates for 1967-68 are generally presented in the same form as those for 1966-67 with the exception of Head 36, Education which has absorbed Head 74, Subventions: Education. One new Expenditure Head is created to accommodate expenditure in connexion with the University Grants Committee. Several departmental Heads of the Estimates, notably Education and Agriculture and Fisheries, have been recast in order that estimated expenditure may be related more closely with aspects of depart- mental activities. Because of the more comprehensive nature of Head 36, Education in its new format, Appendix C, being a comparative analysis of expenditure on Education, appears in an abbreviated form in com- parison with the statement contained in the 1966-67 Estimates.