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HONGKONG.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
PUBLIC WORKS
COMMITTEE
at a Meeting held on the 16th May, 1912.
No.
6 1912
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, May 23rd, 1912,
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM, C.M.G.), Chairman.
the Colonial Treasurer, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).
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Mr. WEI YUK, C.M G.
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Mr. EDWARD OSBORNE.
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Mr. CHARLES HENDERSON Ross.
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Flushing Tanks and Iron Pipes-Vote No. 26, P.W.E. (C.S.O. 1113/12.)
The Chairman submitted a proposed programme of items of work which had been for- warded to Government with a view to their being carried out under the vote in this year's Estimates. The programme however entailed the expenditure of a sum of $1,000 in excess of the vote. It was as follows :
Amount of Vote
1. Relaying with C.1. Pipes a portion of Matheson
Street sewer 300 feet in length.....
...$4,000
.$1,000
2. Relaying with C.I. Pipes a portion of the Wong-
neichong sewer 174 feet in length
500
3. Repairing Cowper's Tank, junction of Bonham
Road and Centre Street..
1,000
4. Altering Eastern Street outfall plates and connect-
ing up heads of sewers
1,500
5. Relaying with C.I. Pipes a portion of Leighton
Hill Road sewer 260 feet in length
700
6. Altering French Street, Hillier Street and Wing
Lok Street outfall plates
300
5,000
Excess $1,000