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9.

Under the heading "Public Works Re-

-current" I have increased the provision for typhoon damages

by $19,500 as the experience of the last few years has proved

the necessity of a more liberal allowance being made for this

expenditure.

10.

The programme of Public Works for next

year, into the details of which I have entered fully in my

speech on the Budget, is a comparatively full one. The com-

-pletion of the Post Office and practical completion of the

Law Courts have set free funds for the execution of other

works of pressing importance, amongst which the Second

Section of the Tytan Tuk Waterworks and various works for the

safeguarding and improvement of the public health figure pro-

-minently.

BUILDINGS.

Dealing in the first place with

buildings already under construction I have to explain that

the excess of $60,110 on the revised estimate for the "Law

Courts* is due principally to payment of architects fees, of

charges for insurance on the building during construction and

to expenditure on various internal alterations desired by the

Judges. The cost of the additional storey to Yaumati English

School was originally under-estimated, the lowest tender

received

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