Head 59-PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT
169
Estimate 1969-70
Approved
Estimate 1968-69
Sub- head
$
$
$
$
Civil Engineering Office
18
Maintenance and operation of public dumps and reclamations 100,000
100,000
19
Maintenance and replacement of sewers and storm-water
drains
2,900,000
2,900,000
22
20 Dredging and underwater clearance
21 Maintenance of seawalls, piers and dumps
22
222323
Operation of quarries
Lighting:-
70,000
60,000
550,000
550,000
4,000,000
4,000,000
(1) Streets and public places (2) Traffic light signals
$ 5,000,000
4,700,000
$
220,000
160,000
5,220,000
24
Maintenance, minor alterations and improvements:-
(1) Footpaths back lanes and drainage con-
nections
$ 870,000
700,000
(2) Formed lands
100,000
200,000
(3) Pedestrian and vehicular aids
900,000
820,000
(4) Roads and bridges
6,200,000
5,800,000
(5) Street name plates
$
190,000
160,000
8,260,000
2 25
25
Maintenance and extension of cemeteries
1,070,000
450,000
26
Maintenance-Kai Tak Airport-Drainage, roads, runways,
etc.
300,000
110,000
27
Maintenance of Lion Rock Tunnel-Civil Engineering Works
22,000
22,000
28
Minor investigations
80,000
80,000
29
Typhoon and rain-storm damage and emergency repairs
800,000
700,000
30
Works executed on private account
2,800,000 | fn
4,961,900
Total, Recurrent Expenditure-
Civil Engineering Office,
carried forward to Summary...
26,172,000
Subhead 30 Offset by equivalent revenue.
26,473,900
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