THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 5, 1940.
TREASURY.
17
DITURE FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31st OCTOBER, 1939.
Heads of Expenditure.
Estimates
1939.
Expenditure from 1st to 31st October, 1939.
Expenditure for same period of preceding
year.
Actual Expenditure to 31st Oct., 1939.
Expenditure for same period of preceding
year.
$3
$
C.
$
C.
$
C.
C.
H. E. the Governor
174,801
12,681.54
13,739.11
143,697.29
147,166.48
Colonial Secretary's Office
and Legislature
557,221
42,629.58
23.294.87
400,878.67
236,958.06
Audit Department
122,868
9,116 91
9,757.55
94,259.67
99,276.50
Botanical and
Forestry
Department
151,953
12,078.35
10,588.27
116,210.38
114,855.18
Charitable Services.
458,264
41,409.61
14.237.05
993,895.79 377,018.04
Defence :-
(a) Hong Kong Volunteer
Defence Corps
177,491
12,700.74
18,849.72
371,851.75
137,579.74
(b) Hong Kong Naval
Volunteer Force... (c) Air Raid Precau-
tions
58,575
61,965.57
3,399.59
96,923.93
31,631.31
338,065
429,893.51
4,749.00
649,132.86
23,843.20
(d) Military Contribu-
tion
7,097,898
500,000.00
435,482.58
5,051,926.07
5,009,758.65
District Office, North
78,948
6,488.42
5,608.82
64,025.70
56,700.28
Do., South
48,474
3,651.05
5,893.36
36,439.67
58,523.41
Education Department
2,336,865
149,306.78
143,477.51
1,806,248.26
1,798,684.73
Fire Brigade.....
324,307
25,809.11
56,608.16
250,789.65
271,679.78
Harbour Department &
Air Services :-
(a) Harbour Department
1,324,320
120,262.84
98,204.55
980,405.49
965,341.76
(b) Air Services
101,357
6.462.16
0,227.23
87,085.09
72,099.53
Imports and Exports
Office
477,986
34,595.00
39,983.89
407,438.33
386,855.85
Kowloon-Canton Railway..
952,103
56,811.84
67,913.69
609,573.41
1,011,899.95
Legal Departments
482,855
41,880.87
37,575.79
405,822.81
409,928.09
Magistracy, Hong Kong...
74,739
0,271.67
10,906.09
61,675.18
93,489.60
Do., Kowloon
55,704
4,969.69
5,624.35
49,815.79
58,132.32
Medical Department
2,516,267
Miscellaneous Services
Pensions
Police Force.
213,904.89 1,623,393
62.298.26 2,970,000 241,172,01 3,441,851 200,017.26
216,397.77
2,025,281.53
2,002,062.10
92,726.24 1.368,057.38 1,633,679.90 238,818.70 2,328,010.07 2,316,913.09 293,157.27 2,953,319.75 2,694,407.92
Post Office, Wireless &
Broadcasting:-
(a) Post Office.
951,030
(b) Wireless.
412,651
64,387.18 31,562.16
175,191.29 745,501.76
706,098.98
262,877.25
Radio Traffic Office...
Wireless
(e) Broadcasting
81,952
Prison Department
921,140
5,659.13 71,822.38
7,379.45 18,007.78
67,588.67
65,827.00
161,403.63
65,767.33 749,358.93
749,195.65
Public Debt
1,332,031
1,332,031.00
1,351,631.00
Public Works Department
& Water Works:-
(a) Public Works
Department
1,912,677
(b) Water Works.
288,393
169,510.79 26,879.38
191,954.93
1,538,748.57 246,490.53
1,811,666.12
Public Works Recur-
rent:
(a) General
1,300,600
150,260.07
225,426.93
965,734.74
1,374,632.18
(b) Water Works.
967,907
61,980.00
767,289.34
Royal Observatory
91,440
10,220.65
7,450.02
90,647.49
77.364.08
Sanitary Department
1,148,034
93,972.17
88,593.05
951,181.50
868,687.33
Secretariat for Chinese
Affairs
125,653
13,070.72
11,696.73
130,043,01
111,342.20
Stores Department
Treasury, etc.
312,241 | Cr. 17 1,195,93 263,934
685,181,72
25,464.84
24,706,33
206,064.41
259,939.33
36,068,988
2,949,971.20
2,671,216.34
30,089,682.60 | 27,546,272.97
Public Works
Extraordinary
TOTAL.........$
1,688,235 230,678.77
105,394.65
962,110.21
1,071,933.82
37,757,223 3,180,649.97
2,776,610,99 | 31,051,792.81 | 28,618,206.79
A. J. C. TAYLOR,
Accountant-General.
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