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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
A Railway Vote
$475, on at count of Kowloon-Canton Railway Special Expenditure, Switch Board, Lighting, etc.
THE CHAIRMAN--A telephone cable is being laid to Hunghom and the manager of the Railway recommends that the exchange at the locomotive shed be abolished and the store and quarters be connected direct with the exchange at Kowloon. He has gone into the cost and the Director of Public Works agrees that the proposal is a good one. $300 is in- cluded for a larger switchboard. At the same time, he recommends the laying of underground cable to the standards in Kowloon Station yard. The wire is in a very bad condition. The cost of that is $175, making up the estimate of $475.
Approved.
P.W.D. Transport and Travelling Expenses
$3,500. in aid of the vote Public Works, Fstablishment, Other Charges, Transport and Travelling Ex-
penses.
THE CHAIRMAN-This sum is $1.160 less than the average expenditure of the last three years.
In addition to this, charges for motor cars, hitherto paid by various votes, are now being charged to this one vote and there is considerable depart- mental extension.
Approved.
A Typewriter
$270, in aid of the vote Public Works, Establishment. Special Expendi ture, Typewriter.
THE CHAIRMAN
A typewriter is urgently required for the Land Survey Office.
Approved,
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Drawing Materials
$3,500, in aid of the vote Public Works. Establishment, Other Charges, Drawing Materials and Mount ing Plans.
THE CHAIRMAN-This vote is $2,500, but some print linen to the value of
$2,280 did not arrive in time to be paid for last year. There has been also an increase of staff in the Survey and Archi- tectural Offices.
Approved.
New Buoys
$1,430, in aid of the vote Harbour De- partment, A-Harbour Office, Other Charges, Purchase of buoys and Moorings.
THE CHAIRMAN-This is required to complete the purchase of six new buoys and moorings. The estimate was $89,000 but the entire cost is 90,130; the buoys include two A class and four B class.
Approved,
Higher Costs
$5,120, in aid of the following votes:-
Medical Department, Other Charges:
Lunatic Asylum:-
Provisions, etc. Victoria Hospital:-
Fuel and Light Provisions, etc.
Government Laboratory:
Apparatus, etc.
Books and Journals..
Total
$1,500.00
600.00 1,000.00
2,000.00
20.00
.$5,120.00
THE CHAIRMAN-This is due, as to the Lunatic Asylum, to a large increase of patients and the high cost of provisions; Victoria Hospital: the increased cost of milk and extras and installation of geysers. At the Government Laboratories the cost of apparatus was considerably more. The catalogues from which the estimates were made out were found to be out-of-date.
Approved.
Railway Bridge at Samchun
$900, in aid of the vote Kowloon-Can- ton Railway, Special Expendi- ture, Bridge No. 37.
widening Bridge 37, near Shumchun, to THE CHAIRMAN In connection with facilitate shunting operations timbering was found necessary.
Approved.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
New Site for Queen's College
$160,000, in aid of the vote Public Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, (36) Compensation and Re- sumptions.
THE CHAIRMAN-This item is for the purchase of Inland Lot 358, Caroline Hill the site of the future Queen's College.
Approved,
Maintenance of Gardens and
Grounds
$500, in aid of the vote Botanical and Forestry Department, Other Charges, Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds.
THE CHAIRMAN—The vote maintenance of gardens and grounds has been nearly exhausted. A supplementary vote of $500 is required for the remaining two months of the year.
It is partly due to the re- laying of the tennis court at the Govern ment Quarters at Taipo, $250, also turf laying, and removing black soil and dis- integrated granite at Government House.
Approved.
the
Electric Fans and Lights for C.S.O.
$120 in aid of
vote Colonial Secretary's Department and Legis- lature, Other Charges, Electric Fans and Light.
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the vote was the Hongkong Harbour ap proach lights $10.862. Then there are red warning signs $240, small works con- nected with the D.O. South $230, fire alarms Laichikok $550; motor garage, Taipo (this is for the ambulance that has gone out to the New Territory) $1,500; approach road Samshui police station $400; fans, warder's quarters, Laichikok $700; removing and re-erecting boat house $260. There is an allowance for contingencies and small unapproved items amounting to $4,087. If hon. members wish that can be cut down and a further vote brought forward later.
THE CHAIRMAN suggested a reduction by $3,000 and this was agreed to.
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damage
$11,500, in aid of the following votes:-
Public Works. Recurrent:-
Kowloon, Miscellaneous:-
(34) Typhoon and Rain-
storm Damages New Territories, Miscellane-
ous:-
(45) Typhoon and Rain-
storm Damages
Total
.$ 8,500
3,000
$11,500
THE CHAIRMAN-The rote is $10,000 which had already and the expenditure up to 29th July, been before the Council, was $7,980.65. Since then the estimated cost of further damage incur- red is $18.500 or $8,500 more than the THE CHAIRMAN This is for the Colonial Secretary's Department.
estimate. On Public Works Recurrent, The amount voted was found insufficient by the expenditure to 29th July is $7,573. New Territories, the vote is $15,000 and
The estimated cost of further damage is $18,000.
Approved.
the sum now asked for.
Approved.
Miscellaneous Works in New
Territories
vote Public
$9,000, in aid of the
Works, Extraordinary, New Territories, Miscellaneous, (86) Miscellaneous Works.
THE CHAIRMAN-This vote has already been before members. The vote was $14,000 and the real reason that made the expenditure considerably higher than
Development in New Kowloon
$50,000, in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, New Territories, Communications, Roads, 77 (f) General Works.
THE CHAIRMAN—This sum of $50.000 is arrived at as follows: The Department of Public Works forwarded for approval an additional programme of road work