Appendix P.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.
1910.
Expenditure.
1. The amounts voted, as compared with those actually expended by the Department under the various headings, were as follows:-
(i) Personal Emoluments and Other Charges, (ii) Annually Recurrent Works, (iii) Extraordinary Works, Amounts voted. Actual Expenditure. In Estimates. Supplementary Votes. Total. $ $ $ 333,582.00 10,217.50 343,820.50 309,781.69 427,500.00 29,545.00 457,045.00 429,835.24 910,820.00 563,270.41 1,474,090.41 1,223,909.83 Total, $1,671,902.00 $603,032.91 $2,274,955.91 $1,963,526.76Detailed statements of (ii) and (iii) are given in Annexes A and B.
With regard to (i), the saving is due to vacancies in the staff, lapsing pay of officers on leave, refunds on account of supervision of work executed by the Department for various public companies and the prevalence of a higher rate of exchange than that assumed in preparing the Estimates (average rate 1s 9d against estimated rate of 1s 9d).
In the case of (ii), savings occurred under the following sub-heads as set forth below:-
Maintenance of Lighthouses, $1,200.87 Maintenance of Roads outside City, $2,271.69 Maintenance of Public Cemetery, $1,497.06 Exhumation of remains in Cemeteries, $2,320.97 Maintenance of City & Hill District Waterworks, Water Account (Meters, etc.), $4,746.46 $10,198.00The saving on Maintenance of Lighthouses was due to few repairs of a special nature being required; that on Roads outside City to the repairs being somewhat less than usual; that on Maintenance of Public Cemetery to little extension work being carried out; that on Exhumation to less progress being made than was anticipated; that on Maintenance of City and Hill District Waterworks to less pumping being done than was estimated for and that on Water Account to less meters being fixed than was anticipated.