HONGKONG ESTIMATES
PUBLIC WORKS.
1.-PUBLIC WORKS,-Continued.
B.-PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT.
HONGKONG.
BUILDINGS.
1 Maintenance of Buildings,
2 Improvements to Buildings,
3 Maintenance of Lighthouses,
COMMUNICATIONS.
4 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City... 5 Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City,
Approved Estimate, 1920.
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A
Estimate, 1921,
100,000
100,000
15,000
6,000
15,000 6,000
#
85,000
90,000
(1)
25,000
25,000
6 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City,. 7 Improvements to Roads and Bridges outside City, 8 Maintenance of Telephones including all Cables,
40.000
45,000
(1)
7,000
7,000
6,500
8,000
(2)
DRAINAGE.
9 Maintenance of Sewers, Nullabs, &c.,
LIGHTING.
18,000
19,000 (1)
10 Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District,.... 11 Electric Lighting, City, Hill District, and Shaukiwan,
57,000
26,000
63,000 26,000
(8)
MISCELLANEOUS.
12 Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers,
8,000
8,000
13 Maintenance of Public Cemetery,
2.500
2,500
14 Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries,
2,500
2,500
15 Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds,.
4,000
1,000
16 Dredging Foreshores,
9,000
9,000
17 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
22,000
22,000
18 Stores Depreciation,.....
100
100
WATER WORKS.
19 Maintenance of City and Hill District,
20 Maintenance of Shaukiwan,
21 Maintenance of Aberdeen,
22 Water Account, (Meters, &c.),
150,000
160,000
(1)
1,000
1,000 12,000
1,000 1,000
12,000
Total Hongkong,..........
597,600
626,100
597,600
626,100
Carried forward.....
(1) Increase in cost of labour and materials and in mileage. (2) Increased length of cables to Lamma, to Lantao, and to Kat 0.
(3) Increase under new contract,