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of the office, but it is hoped to meet this call by the
provision of the office equipment entered on page 18.
The whole scheme is estimated to take some ten years to
complete at the rate of 1500 new leases per annum, and
it is anticipated that it will be self supporting.
The cost of a lease dealing with the original section
of a lot it is proposed to make $60 (as at present)
while $30 will be charged for each additional lease
issued to other houses on the same section.
Summarised new posts, as will be seen from
the Recapitulation on the last page of the Abstract of
Differences amount to $358,064.
Three lakhs of
this is made up by the increases in the Treasury, Police,
Medical, Sanitary, Education and Public Works
Departments, with which I have generally dealt.
abolished amount to $127,015.
of each detail in the footnotes.
Posts
There are explanations
Turning to Public Works Extraordinary I
would refer you first to the fully detailed memo
prepared by the Director of Public Works, in connection
with which I would like to state in passing that it has
since been decided to reduce the width of certain
sections of the road between Causeway Bay and Ming Yuen
Garden, which appears as sub-head 11, to seventy-five
feet. This will reduce the total estimate, but it
has not yet been possible to work out the exact
figure.
It is impossible to avoid making provision