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Comparative Statement of the Estimated and Actual
Expenditure of the Colony of Hong Kong for the Year 1948/49.
Heads and Sub-heads
Estimated
Actual
+
$
$
Over the Estimate
$
Under the Estimate
$
Supplementary Votes
Explanatory Remarks
$
Brought Formaid
123,391,807
141,498.121.17
34.423,355.20
16.317.041.03
38,133,725.27
29.-PUBLIC WORKS
EXTRAORDINARY.
Sub-heads.
District Office, New Territories,
1. Taipo Market
Education Department.
2. Extension to Central British
School
Fisheries Department.
80,000
46.869.40
200,000
202.609.32
2.609.32
3. Reclamation at Aberdeen
400,000
4. Landing facilities at Kennedy
Town
160.000
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence
Corps.
5. Headquarters
33,130.60
400,000.00
160,000.00
500.000.00
500,000
Lower contract rates.
Economies in design.
20,000.00
S.W. 152.
Underestimated. Work not completed.
Transferred to Head 38, Colonial Development and Welfare Schemes.
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Token vote. Plans not finalized,
Medical Department,
Lack of staff.
6. Tuberculosis Sanatorium and
475,000
475.000.00
Quarters for Medical Officers
7. Tuberculosis clinic, Kowloon
100,000
100.000.00
do
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Post Office.
8. Sub post offices
Public Works Department.
90,000
90,000.00
9. Caroline Hill garage storerooms
10. Works contingent on land sales
50,000
200.000
11. Kai Tak compensation
5,000,000
12. Replacement of boundary stones
7.000
13. Causeway Bay Road widening
14. May Road widening
1.179.000
360.000
37,162.66
474,829.94
439,682.20
6.413.20
548.632.48
12,837.34
274,829.94
320.000.00
S.W. 18B.
4,560.317.80
586.80
630.367.52
360.000.00
Carried Foricard
8.801,000
1,756,199.20
277,439.26
7.322,240.06
340,000.00
Carried Forward
123.391.807
141.498.121.17
34.423,355.20
16,317,041.03
38,133,725.27
Tenders called for but work deferred for reasons of economy.
Retention money outstanding,
Heavy building programme by private owners.
Payments not yet completed.
Lack of materials delayed progress.
Widening scheme abandoned.
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