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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL
EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1915.
45
Heads and Sub-Heads.
Estimated. Actual.
Increase.
Decrense.
Provisionally
Voted.
Explanatory Remarks.
Brought forward,
7,808,326
$
$ 7,817,922.67 898,649.83
$
889,053.16
$
PUBLIC WORKS,—Continued,
Brought forward,
505,800
492,270.79 34,479.08 48,008.29
33,580.00
B.-PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT,-Continued.
Drainage.
Maintenance of Sewers, Nullalis, &c.......
6,000
5,412.80
587.20
Over-estimated.
Lighting.
Gas Lighting,.
12,000
Electric Lighting,
2,000
11,960.49 2,093,31
39.51
93.31
200.00
Street lighting extended to Tai Kok Tsui.
Miscellaneous,
Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers,
1,500
1,507.00
7.00
Do.
Chinese Cemeteries,
1,000
28.50
971.50
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
5,000
758.71
4,241.29
Over-estimated,
No serious storm.
Waterworks.
Maintenance of Waterworks,
9,000
9,893.78
893.78
Water Account, (Meters, &c.),
3,000
4,363.52 1,863.52
2,000.00 2,300.00
Increased consumption of water,
Additional meters fixed,
NEW TERRITORIES,
Buildings.
Maintenance of Buildings.—Jelauda in Southern
District,
1,500
1,300.84
199.16
Over-estimated.
Improvements to Buildings,-Islands in Southern
District,
5:00
500.00
Do.
Maintenance of Buildings,-Mainland and Islands in
Northern District,...
6,500
Improvements to Buildings,-Mainland and Islands
in Northern District,
500
6,554.95
219,30
54.95
60.00
281.70
Do.
Communications.
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges, Mainland,.......... Improvements to Roads and Bridges--Mainland, Maintenance of Telephones,-Mainland,
14,000
2,000
4,000
13,868.79 1,999.71 1,209.45
181,21
.29
2,790.55
Do.
Drainage.
Maintenance of Sewers, Nullalis, &c.—Mainland, .
500
400,85
99.15
Do.
Miscellaneous.
Maintenance of Chinese Cemeterics,—Mainland, Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,-Islands in
Southern District,
500
101.28
398.72
Do
500
174.84
$25.16
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages, Mainland and
Islands in Northern District,
No serious storm.
2,500
2,182.63
317.87
Do,
Waterworks.
Maintenance of Laichikok,
Water Account, (Meters, &c.),
1,500 500
1,686.93 460.56
186.93
350.00
39.44
580,300 558,448.03
37,078.57
Less Increase...
58,930.54 37,078.57
38,490.00
Savings,
21,851.97
L
Carried forward,
8,388,626
8,376,370.70 935,728.40 947,983,70
Extensive repairs to channel to Filter Beds. Over-estimated.