HONGKONG.
No.
41 1907
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, FOR THE YEAR 1906.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of
His Excellency the Governor.
EXPENDITURE.
1. The amounts voted, as compared with those actually expended by the Department under the various headings, were as follows:—
(i.) Personal Emoluments and other Charges, (ii) Annually Recurrent Works,. (iii) Extraordinary Works,
Total,
AMOUNTS VOTED.
In Estimates.
Supplement- ary Votes.
Actual Expenditure.
Total.
283,022.00
283,022,00
409,200.00
1,561,700.00
327,824.111,889,524.11
203,068.43 3,050.00 412,250.00 879,797.77 1,463,868.66
2,253.922.00
330,874.112,584,796.11 |2,046,734.86
Detailed statements of items (ii) and (iii.) are given in Appendices A and B.
With regard to (i.), the saving shown is largely due to the rise in Exchange, the Estimates having been prepared on the basis of a 1s. 8d. dollar, as against an average actual rate of 28. 19.
In the case of (ii.), the only excesses occurred in the items "Maintenance of Telegraphs ($243.68), “Gas Lighting, Kowloon" ($669.33) and "Maintenance of Kowloon Water- works" ($1,971.03). The excess on Gas Lighting, Kowloon, was due to the increase in the number of lamps on account of recent developments and extensions of roads, and ou Kowloon Waterworks to the increased cost of coal, works found necessary for securing the banks around the new Service Reservoir at Kowloon Tong and the Maintenance of the Lai Chi Kok Works, for which no special provision had been made in the Estimates. The excesses on these votes were more than balanced by the savings on others.