Head 28-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
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Approved Estimate 1952-53
Estimate 1953-54
Special Expenditure
$
$
$
$
15 Billing machines
16 Lathe
17 Lifts
18 Motor vehicles
19 Power rammers
90,000
20,000
167,000
184,600
11,000
158,500 (27) (28)
20,000 (29)
290,000 (30) (27) 263,500|(27) (31)
10,000
20 Quarry plant
200,000
21 Road rollers
191,000
260,000 (29) (32) 300,500 (27) (33)
22 Tar boiler
20,000
30,000 (29) (32)
23 Workshop equipment and tools
62,000
39,800 (27)
24 Grouting equipment
30,000 (34)
25 Batch-weigher
26 Drilling equipment
27 Pumps
28 Flow recorders
Air compressors Concrete mixer
Dredging equipment Dumper
..
20,000
32,000 (35) 90,000|(36)
32,000
95,000
24,000
16,300
50,000
Laboratory equipment
31,000
Rock drills
16,500
Self-propelled vibrating roller Vibrators
5,000
15,000
Total Special Expenditure
Total Expenditure
1,198,400
14,892,141
1,576,300
17,670,966
(1) Senior Executive Officer provided for under
Executive Grade officers
(2) 1 temporary Clerk in place of 1 Clerk G.C.S. (3) Personal and pensionable allowance of $150 a
month for 4 months
(4) 1 new post
(5) Establishment of Assistant Surveyors Class II
and Class III combined
(6) 3 new posts
(7) 1 Engineering Draughtsman Class III in place
of 1 Architectural Draughtsman Class III
(8) 2 new posts
(9) 1 supernumerary post not required
(10) 1 Assistant Mechanical Inspector in place of
1 Foreman Class I
(11) 2 supernumerary posts not required
(12) Previously provided for under non-pensionable
establishment
(13) 4 new posts
(14) Staff now itemised (15) Supernumerary post
(16) Supernumerary posts replacing those held by Colonial Development and Welfare scholars (17) 48 posts previously provided for under Tem-
porary staff
(18) Previously provided for under Miscellaneous
Services
(19) Previously overestimated
(20) Previously provided for in part under Public
Works Recurrent
(21) More staff
(22) Previously provided for in part under Miscel-
laneous Services
(23) Increased charges
(24) Provided for in part under Public Works
Recurrent
(25) Title changed from Honoraria for University
Engineering students
(26) More graduate apprentice Engineers employed (27) Revote in part
(28) 1 additional machine and ancillary equipment (29) Revote
(30) 2 new lifts for Fire Brigade Building
(31) Replacement vehicles
(32) Increased costs
(33) 4 replacement rollers
(34) Previously provided for under Waterworks
Renewals and Improvement Fund
(35) Replacement
(36) For waterworks pumping stations