EXTRAORDINARY PUBLIC WORKS.
Original Estimate Revised Estimate Spent to 31st December, 1886 Estimated for 1887 Probable payment in 1887 Estimated for 1888 REMARKS Taitan Water-works (a) £166,440 £908,000 813,787.47 Completion Victoria College $100,000 $160,000 (2) 60,097.92 $185,000 Sanitary Works $1,500,000 290,732.35 $150,000 Police Buildings, extension 165,800 3,080.99 165,301.00 150,000.00 Central Market, resumption 50,000.00 100,000.00 50,000.00 New Central Market $250,000.00 50,000.00 Extension of Cattle Markets $40,000.00 25,000.00 Completion Kowloon Roads and Drains 100,000.00 $0,000.00 about 100,000 Water distribution Works 30,000.00 45,000.00 $70,000 50,000.00 5,000.00 Improvements at Kennedy Town $150,000 75,000.00 75,000.00 Completion of new Streets Retaining Wall below Civil Hospital $50,000 25,000.00 25,000.00 25,000.00 Completion Purchase of Furniture for Victoria College $11,500 $16,000 2,550.00 13,000.00 Hospital extension $30,000 6,000.00 6,000.00 New Streets, Causeway Bay $15,000 10,000.00 Not including Market Building Western Market, reclamation $73,000 $33,000 15,000.00 Completion Lighthouse for Southern approach to the Harbour 10,000 10,000.00 10,000.00 Military Defence Works $90,000 £55,625 £116,000 298,930.54 250,000.00 217,000.00 130,000.00 781,880.0 760,000.00 809,000.00 177,000 636,000.00(a) The Original Estimate of the Taitam Water-works was £259,479.0.0, reduced subsequently to £166,440. For detailed explanation, vide Sessional Paper No. 7, Surveyor General's printed Report of 1st November, 1885, p. 8, et seq.
(2) Not including the sum of $25,542.67, spent in 1884 and charged to Ordinary Works.
AUDIT OFFICE, HONGKONG, 11th November, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART, Auditor General.
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