173
76
94
Head 32.-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Approved Estimate, 1936.
Estimate, 1937.
Head 32.-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Sub-heads :-
1 Personal Emoluments
1,832,672
2,272,491
Other Charges.
2 City Hall Library.
2,300
2,300
3 Conveyance Allowances
38.000
40,000
(1)
4 Drawing Materials and Mounting Plans
9,000
9,000
5 Electric Fans and Light
30,000
11,000
6 Incidental Expenses.....
6,500
6,800
7 Lifts Maintenance, Government Buildings
5,500
6,000
8 Maintenance and Supply of Furniture
35,000
30,000
9 Rent of Public Telephones.
1,122
(6)
10 Surveying Instruments and Contingencies
11 Technical Library
12 Transport and Travelling Expenses
13 Uniforms
3,000
2,500
300
200
11,000
3,600
14 Upkeep of Government Garage Plant
800
10,000
3,500 800
15 Upkeep of Harbour Surveying Plant
4,000
3,000
16 Upkeep and running expenses of Motor Lorries and Cars
28,000
23,000
(5)
17 Upkeep of Motor and Steam Rollers.......
12,500
6,000
(5)
18 Upkeep of Quarry Plants
19 Upkeep of Triangulation Monuments
19,000
16,000
200
200
29 One W/T Receiver
Radio Telegraph Branch.
20 Incidental Expenses
1,000
21 Repairs, Stores and Current
68,000
22 Transport
3,500
Total Other Charges
281,200
Special Expenditure.
23 Electrical Motors...
25 Spindle Moulding Machine.
24 Two Cars
26 Diesel Electric Generating Set
27 Diesel Engine for Lighting Set: Tytam Tuk
28 Two Megger Insulation Testing Machines
30 Radio Diffusion Instrument
1.000 60,000 (5)
3.000
(5)
235,422
700
900
(7)
8,000
(8)
1,700
(9)
36,000
(10)
1,800 (11)
2,000 (12)
1,920 (13)
5,000 (14)
31 Diver's Motor Boat..........
5,000
(15)
32 W T Press Reception Apparatus
12,500 (14)
33 Two Microphones
2,000
(14)
One Compressor for spraying plants
700
(16)
Light Diesel Roller, 21⁄2 tons
5,000
Two 2 ton Lorries...........
6,000
Three Morse Instruments
1,224
(17)
Office equipment
1,200
Short wave Telephone transmitter
72.000
Combined planing Machine
2,500
99,321
76,820
2,584,733
Total Special Expenditure
Total Public Works Department.
(1) Allowances revised.
(2) Vote split up departmentally.
(3) Includes maintenance of typewriters previously
provided under Miscellaneous Services.
(4) Extra lifts (Queen Mary Hospital).
(5) Considered sufficient.
(6) Previously provided under Miscellaneous Services.
(7) 1936 Estimate insufficient owing to lower rate of exchange. Further sum required for the balance. (8) For replacement of old cars. (9) For Furniture Workshop.
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(10) Required in the event of failure of supply at Cape
D'Aguilar W/T Station.
(11) Replacement.
(12) One for Air Service and one for broadcasting
services.
(13) Replacement of one local made receiver at Water
Police Station by a Marconi receiver.
(14) Considered necessary.
(15) To replace existing diver's barge considered
unsuitable.
(16) Not required. (17) Non-recurrent