Sessional_Paper_1936 — Page 87

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Increase.

Decrease.

Personal Emoluments

34,967

$

25,578

Other Charges

13,135

17,814

Special Expenditure

42,100

60,380

Total

90,202

103,772

Deduct Increase

90,202

Net Decrease

13,570

Estimates, 1936

Estimates, 1937

$ 779,870 766,300

Increase.

Decrease, 1937

13,570

Head 27.-Defence

(A) Volunteer Defence Corps.

Lower Rate of Exchange

Stipulated Increments

New Post

Rent Allowances

Appropriation to Army funds in respect

of Adjutant

Total

Decrease.

Personal Emoluments,

6,820

Changes in Personnel

$

16

1,038

480

Allowance to Cominandant Abolition of Post

900

3,720

72

2,400

10,810

Total

4,636

Other Charges.

Sub-Head.

2.

Allowances for Officers and N. C.

Os. undergoing Training in England

$

250

Sub-Head.

18. Grant to Machine Gun Troop 22. Uniform for Messengers

Coolies

$

3,600

and

50

3.

Ammunition

1,217

9.

Detachment

20. Transport

Equipment for the Engineer Com-

pany and Signals—Overhaul optical instruments

15. Improvements to Camp

16. Repairs to Causeway Bay Stable

19. Training Expenses for Nursing

21. Uniform, including Boots

335

1,000

450

1,000

600

1

Total

$

4,858

Total

$

3,650

Special Expenditure.

Sub-Head.

Sub-Head.

28. Night Glasses, 6 pairs

860

24.

2 Motor Cycle Combinations

352

27.

S.M.L.E. Rifles

1,840

25.

Anti-Gas Equipment

2,064

28.

100 sets equipment

3,520

26.

Steel Helmets

1,692

29.

Mechanisation of Machine Gun

Troop

3,600

3 Slide Rules (M.G.) and cases... Clinometers

44

372

2 Night Firing Boxes, Machine

Gun

180

Mobilization Equipment

403

Equipment for M.G. Bn., Signals

2,840

Improvements to Camp

1,500

Repairs to Causeway Bay Stables.

450

Total

$

9,320

Total

$

9,897