Head 23.-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND WATER WORKS 105
Head 23.-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
AND WATER WORKS.
Sub-heads :-
A.-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
1 Personal Emoluments
Approved Estimate, 1940-41.
Estimate, 1941-1942.
€
2,139,558
€
1,757,554
Other Charges.
2 City Hall Library
3,125
2,800
(1)
3 Cleaning of Offices
600
500
4 Conveyance Allowances
42,000
45,000
5 Drawing Materials and Mounting Plans
11,575
10,650
6 Fuel, Light and Power
13,920
12,880
7 Incidental Expenses.......
6,625
5,560
8 Lifts Maintenance, Government Buildings
8,250
8,500
9 Rent of Public Telephones
885
990
10 Surveying Instruments
2,500
2,350
11 Technical Library
200
200
12 Transport and Travelling Expenses 13 Uniforms
13,100
10,550
3,460
3,870
14 Upkeep of Harbour Surveying Plant
8,000
6,650
15 Upkeep of Triangulation Monuments
375
300
Total Other Charges
114,615
110,800
Special Expenditure.
16 Five 2 ton tipping Lorries
17 Five 4-5-seater Saloon Cars..
18 Loose Leaf Binders (20 Nos.)
19 Surveying Instruments
20 Motors for Quarries....
Seven 2 ton tipping Lorries
Three 12 ton Diesel Road Rollers. Two 5-seater Saloon Cars
Two Typewriters......
One light lorry.
Hoist for Motor Vehicles
Total Special Expenditure
Total A-Public Works Department
25,000
(8)
22,500
912 2,100
1,000
1,800
(10)
55,000
(11)
35,000
76,800
7,500
720
(12)
3,600
3,000
129,932
105,300
2,384,105
1,973,654
(1) Considered necessary.
(2) Higher cost of materials.
(3) Higher cost of coal.
(4) Higher cost of small stores, etc.
(5) Higher cost of spare parts.
(6) Includes rent for extensions, etc. under new
automatic system.
(7) Increased staff.
(8) Four replacements
and
one
for Botanical and
Forestry Department.
(9) Three replacements and two additional.
(10) Replacements.
(11) To replace hired ones.
(12) Non-recurrent.
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