FOR THE YEAR 1918.
[Class VI] 95
PUBLIC WORKS.
1.-PUBLIC WORKS,-Continued.
B.-PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT.
HONGKONG.
BUILDINGS.
Maintenance of Buildings,
2 Improvements to Buildings,
3 Maintenance of Lighthouses,
COMMUNICATIONS.
Approved Estimate, 1917.
5+
I
Estimate, 1918.
$
66,000
66,100
(1)
9,000
9,000
4,500
4,500
4 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City, 5 Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City, 6 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City,.. 7 Improvements to Roads and Bridges outside City, 8 Maintenance of Telephones including all Cables,...
76,000
76,000
25,000
25,000
30,000
32,000
(2)
5,000
5,000
6,500
6,500
DRAINAGE.
9 Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,
18,000
18,000
LIGHTING.
10 Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District, 11 Electric Lighting, City, Hill District, and Shankiwan,..
52,000
53,000
24,500
25,000 (3
MISCELLANEOUS.
12 Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers,
6,000
6,000
13 Maintenance of Public Cemetery,
2,500
2,500
14 Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries,
2,000
2,500 (4)
15 Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds..
3,000
3,000
16 Dredging Foreshores,
8,000
9,000
(5)
17 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
19,000
19,000
18 Stores Depreciation,....
4,800
100
(6)
18A Stores Depreciation,―Amount to be written off value of
Dredger "St. Enoch ",
7,500
:
(7)
WATER WORKS.
19 Maintenance of City and Hill District,
20 Maintenance of Shaukiwan,
21 Maintenance of Aberdeen,
22 Water Account (Meters, &c.),
75,000 1,000 400 10,000
90,000
(5) (8)
.1,000
400 10,000
Total Hongkong...........
Carried forward,..
455,700
455,700
463,600
463,600
() $100 added for Maintenance of Typhoon Signals.
(3) Additional length of roads to be maintained for motor
traffic.
Additional lamps.
Cemetery hitherto maintained by Tung Wah Hospital
Authorities now to be treated as a Public Cemetery.
(5) Increase price of coal and stores.
(6) Considered sufficient. •.
(7) Dredger "St. Enoch no longer borne on Store Books. (8) Additional pumping.