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PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY.
Notes on 1941-1942 Estimates.
GENERAL WORKS.
Sub-head 1.-Roads, $300,000.-For surfacing, channelling and footpaths to new
roads as buildings are erected or realignments of streets take place.
2.-Drainage (a) Training Nullahs, $27,250.-For training stream courses where this is required as a result of new development. (b) Miscellaneous, $138,000.-For providing sewers and
storm-water drains in newly developed areas.
3.-Port Works, $2,500.-For preliminary investigations in connexion with proposed harbour works, foreshore dumping and reclamations.
4.-Miscellaneous, $10,000. To meet the requirements of all Depart- ments and provide funds for minor works considered too small for separate votes.
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BUILDINGS.
5. Central Police Station-New Block, $800,000. To provide addi- tional office accommodation and quarters by the construction of a new building at the Central Police Station. Plans are completed and │ tenders will be received in February, 1941.
6.-New Fire Station in Hennessy Road, $80,000.—To complete the work
now in hand.
7.—Western Market—Modernization of South Block, $26,000.—To meet retention money on the contract and to reconstruct a latrine neces- sitated by the modernization.
8.-New Teachers Training College, $8,000.-To provide retention
money on the Contract.
9. -Idditions to Volunteer Headquarters and Huts at St. John's Place,
$28,100. To complete the work now in hand.
10.--Out-patients Department, Queen's Road-Conversion of Mortuary and Dispensary, $3,500.—To make provision for the treatment of venereal disease in the existing dispensary building. This will neces- sitate the removal of the dispensary to the disused mortuary.
11.-Queen Mary Hospital -Enclosing verandah, $2,500.-To provide
accommodation for beds on the verandahs of the maternity ward.
12.-New Public Latrines, $50,000.-This is an inclusive sum to meet the cost of additional latrines requested by the Urban Council.
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