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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 3, 1939.

DITURE FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31ST JANUARY, 1939.

Expenditure

Heads of Expenditure.

Estimates

1939.

from 1st to 31st January

1939.

Expenditure for same period of preceding year.

$

C.

c.

H. E, the Governor

174,801

13,613.12

14,029.13

Colonial Secretary's Office

and Legislature

557,221

38,262.82

21,802.02

Audit Department

122,868

12,185.05

10,007.17

Botanical and

Forestry

Department....

151,958

8,753.86

Charitable Services

458,264

189,451.57

9,094.41 143,185.32

Defence:-

(a) Hong Kong Volunteer

Defence Corps

177,491

5.478.97

11,403.68

(4) Hong Kong Naval

(e) Air Raid

Volunteer Force... Precau-

58,575

3.162.40

3,005.31

tions

338,005

3,546.66

481.90

(d) Military

Contribu-

tion

District Office, North

7,097,898 78,948

500.000.00

435,482.58

5,428.39

6,828.68

Do.,

South

48,474

3,624.68

9,707.55

Education Department

2,336,865

140.615.22

149,549.79

Fire Brigade.....

324,307

18,340.00

18,830.56

Harbour Department &

Air Services :--

(a) Harbour Deparment.

1,324,320

09.181.36

58,122.70

() Air Services

101,357

6,142.40

4,188.55

Imports and Exports

Office

477,980

35,584.55

34,887.31

Kowloon-Canton Railway..

952.103

$1,500.05

$1,097.77

Legal Deparements

482,855

47.323.38

40,010.98

Magistracy, Hong Kong...

74,789

6.226.97

7,749.79

Do., Kowloon

55,704

4,928.12

6,852.21

Medical Department

2,516,267

168,181.55

147,935.02

Miscellaneous Services

1,623,393 261,082.52

339,088.67

Pensions

2.070,000 266,464.54

277,636.13

Police Force....

3,441,851

253.075.57

237.790.26

Post Office, Wireless &

Broadcasting :-

(e) Post Office..

951.030

104,070.01

68,253.02

(b) Wireless..

412,651

21.878.49

f Radio Traffic Office...

13,688.69

Wireless

16,491,01

(c) Broadcasting

84,952

8,092.70

Prison Department

021,140

Public Debt

1,332,031

63,150.32 205,800.00

80,509.26

215,600.00

Public Works Department

& Water Works:-

(a) Public Works

Department

1,912,677

(b) Water Works.

288,393

145,622.21 21,519.12

170,049.37

Public Works Recur-

rent :-

(a General

1,300,600

10,661.61

45.322.07

(b) Water Works

967,907

19,115.09

Royal Observatory

91.440

7,104.46

6,876.45

Sanitary Department

1,148,034

70,764.75

70,386.74

Secretariat for Chinese

Affairs

125,653

14,630.80

10,306.48

Stores Department

312,241

102.847.35

Treasury, etc.

263,934

19,985.94

25,382.88

36,068,988 2,966,371.00

2,791,193.49

1,688,235

27,750.30

28,105,62

165

TREASURY.

Actual Expenditure

to

1939.

Expenditure

for same period of preceding

year.

C.

Public Works

Extraordinary

TOTAL...

37,757,223 2,994,131.20 2.817,299.11

T. BLACK,

Accountant-General.

C.