2
New Territories.
Maintenance of Buildings,-Islands in Southern District, Maintenance of Roads and Bridges,-Mainland, Maintenance of Telephones, &c.,-Mainland, Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,-Mainland, Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries,--Mainland, Water Account (Meters, &c.),-Mainland,
...
$ 954.32
148.34
215.15
779.64
339.78
458.10
The savings were more than counter-balanced by excesses on other sub-heads, the principal of which were as follows:-
Hongkong.
Maintenance of Buildings,
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City,
Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,
$17,945.17
14,985.40
2,782.31
Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers,
...
2,016.46
Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries,
Dredging Foreshores,
521.49 1,556.52
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
50,723.58
Stores Depreciation,
2,976.47
Maintenance of City and Hill District Water Works, ...
28,179.04
Water Account (Meters, &c.),
3,016.31
Kowloon.
Maintenance of Buildings,
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges,
Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers,
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages, Maintenance of Water Works,
4,157.79
997.95
100.18
3,960.08
1,493.80
2,389.81
...
Water Account (Meters, &c.),
New Territories.
Maintenance of Buildings,-Mainland and Islands in Northern District,
6,001.95
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages, --Islands in Southern District,
...
5,559.11
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,-Mainland and Islands in Northern District,
...
11
24,743.68
The excesses on "Maintenance of Buildings" were due partly to a large increase in the cost of work and partly to the increased number of buildings to be maintained; those on "Maintenance of Roads" partly to increase in the cost of work and partly to the adoption of tar-macadam and other materials of a more expensive kind than those hitherto in use; those on "Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages" to the occurrence of the typhoons and rainstorms to which allusion is made in this Report and that on "City and Hill District Water Works" to an increased amount of pumping, the cleansing of the filtering materials and the adoption of special measures to conserve the supply of water on account of the deficient rainfall in 1912.