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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL
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Heads and Sub-Heads.
Brought forward
34.-PUBLIC WORKS
EXTRAORDINARY.
HONG KONG,
Estimated.
Actual.
Increase.
EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1933
63
Decrease.
Provisionally Voted.
Explanatory Remarks.
$
$
$
31,031,324 27,830,265.70
470,107.43 3,671,165.73
Buildings,
1. New Government Civil Hospital
2. Market: Hennessy Road near Flem-
ing Road
300,000
69,989.84
236,010.16
27,000
27,000.00
3. Market: Bowrington Canal
15,000
15,000.00
4. Market: Praya East, West End
15,000
299.48
14,700.57
5. Latrine & Bathhouse at junction of
Hennessy Road & O'Brien Road
22,000
15,511.33
6,488.67
General Works.
6. Roads
50,000
33,694.35
16,305.65
7. Drainage:
(a) Training Nullahs
12,000
6,925.64
(b) Miscellaneous Drainage Works..
50.000
88,705.83
5,074.36 11,294.17
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8. Miscellaneous
15,000
23,285.88
8,265.88
10,000,00
9. Water Works:-
(a) Miscellaneous
8,000
(b) Meters
10. Port Works
Communications.
11. New 100-foot road between Causeway
Bay & Ming Yuen Garden
140,000 5,000
8.680.92 187,781.41 1,761.58
680.92 47,781.41
3,238.42
Non arrival of steelwork, &c.
Extension of market in abeyance. Not proceeded with.
Preliminary work only undertaken.
Expenditure less than anticipated.
700.00 55,000.00
Expenditure dependent to some extent upon private enterprise
Lower contract. Expenditure dependent to some extent upon private enterprise.
do.
do.
Many miscellaneous items undertaken.
Expenditure more than anticipated. Increased demand for metered supplies. Less work done than anticipated.
40,000.00
Progress slower than anticipated. Dependent upon private development.
Work commenced late in the year.
Exchange of land for widening and re-arrangement of private Company's mains-gas, electric, &c. causing some delay.
Work not commenced until autumn.
Work commenced in second half year.
do.
Less work undertaken than originally anticipated.
140,000
92,500.70
47,499.30
12. Surfacing 40-foot roads on Fraya East 13. New Road to Bathing Beaches (S.E.'
of Repulse Bay)
80,000
26,803.64
3,196.36
15,000
3,556.03
11,443.97
14. Robinson Road-widening between
Peak Road & Glenealy (including bridge)
31,000
28,084.12
2,915.88
15. Wongneicheong Old Road Improve-
ments
30,000
3,784.00
26,216.00
16. 10-foot path, Shek O Gap to Cape
D'Aguilar Wireless Station
25,000
10,923.92
14,076.08
17. New Road from Island Road to Stanley 18. Kennedy Road, completion of widen-
60,000
29,325.29
30,674.71
ing
30,000
6,620.01
28,379.99
Drainage.
19. Additional Sceptic Tank at Repulse
Bay
15,000
5,869.79
9,130.21
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20. New Sewer Wongneicheong Gap to Island Rond in connection with the development of sites along this road
27,000
27,000.00
Carried forward
1,062,000
615,103.71
56,748.21
508,644.50
105,700.00
Carried forward
31,031,324 27,830,265.70
470,107.48 3,671,165.73
Low tender at advantageous rates received.
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