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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MARCH, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 84.

The following Report on the Widows' and Orphans' Fund for the year 1893, which was laid before the Legislative Council on the 7th instant, is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th March, 1894.

G. T. M. OBRIEN, Colonial Secretary.

THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' FUND,

HONGKONG, 10th January, 1894.

SIR,-We have the honour to submit the following report on the Widows' and Orphans' Fund

for the period from 1st January to 31st December, 1893.

A Statement of Accounts of the Fund to 31st December, 1893, is appended.

On 31st December, 1893, the Funds were disposed of as follows:-

On Fixed Deposit, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,

Current Account

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$12,000.15

2,645.68

$14,645.83

Total,.........

The monthly contributions amount now to about $505.

During the period under review 15 Contributors left the service.

There are at present on the books 110 Compulsory Contributors, and 1 Voluntary Contributor. Of these 111 Contributors, 29 are Bachelors, 76 are Married Men, and 6 Widowers.

171 Children on the books.

There are

The average age of the three classes of Contributors (as far as it has been possible to calculate it) is as follows:-

—

Bachelors,.... Married men, Widowers,

.31 years.

A fraction under 37 years.

........48 years and 2 months.

We have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servants,

N. G. MITCHELL-INNES,

Chairman.

A. W. BREWIN,

F. MACHADO,

G. STAFFORD NORTHCOTE,

J. G. DA ROCHA,

Directors.

The Honourable G. T. M. OBRIEN, C.M.G.,

&c.,

Colonial Secretary, &c.,

&c.

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT OF THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' FUND

FROM JULY 1891 To 31ST DECEMBER, 1893.

July to December, 1891, January to June, 1892, July to December, 1892, January to June, 1893, July to December, 1893,

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RECEIPTS.

EXPENDITURE,

BALANCE.

843.96

3,901.37

57.86

843.96 3,843.51

4,445.50

563.60

3,881.90

2,746.92

366.42

2,380.50

3,810.32

114.36

3,695,96

15,748.07

1,102.24

14,645.83

$ 693.49 408.75

* Refunds of amounts erroneously levied,

Working Expenses,

$1,102.24