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Telephones.
In this connection the small sum of $400 is estimated to be required to complete the work.
Appended to this Report is a statement showing the expenditure that was incurred in 1926 and the anticipated amount that will be required to complete the reparation work in 1927, making a grand total of $988,015.
Public Works Department,
Hong Kong.
HAROLD THOMAS CREASY,
Director of Public Works.
1926.
NATURE OF WORK.
1927. Anticipated Expenditure
Expenditure.
from the Special Vote.
Buildings.
In Hong Kong Island.
Quarters, Police Stations, Offices, Schools, &c.
Repairs to ...
Building Site (No. 8 Police Station) Repairs to
53,485
8,500
1,373
Cemeteries.
Colonial and Chinese Areas. Reconditioning of...
27,101
Communications.
Roads.
Repairs, reinstatement, &c.
272,061
27,900
Telephones.
Lines, cable, electrical fittings, &c. Repairs to
600
Drainage.
Sewers and Nullahs. Removal of boulders, re-
pairs, and reconstruction of nullah walls, &c....
137,586
150,000
Lighting.
Street Gas Lamp. Reconditioning of
1,554
Miscellaneous.
Removal of the huge boulder from the Government Waterworks Pumping Station at Pokfulam Road, and of several others in Shaukiwan Village
8,000
Piers.
Repairs to four
2,339
Carried forward
$
496,099
194,400