The details of expenditure under this heading are as follows:-
Labour for cleansing operations, $13,037.53
Repairs, 4,153.13
Tools for cleansing operations, 765.50
General incidental expenditure, 19.93
$17,976.09
as against $20,979.19 in the previous year.
52. Gas Lighting, City of Victoria and precincts and Hill District. The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year in the City and its precincts was 1,036, an increase of 14 over the previous year and in the Hill District 119, an increase of 3.
The positions of the various additional lamps and a note of any lamps removed will be found in paragraph 104 of this Report.
53. Electric Lighting, City.-The number of arc lamps (75) remains unaltered. The Agreement with the Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd., for lighting these lamps has been renewed on the same terms as previously for a period of 5 years from January 1st 1912, the Company undertaking to replace the lamps hitherto in use with up-to-date flame arc lamps before the end of June 1912 and to extend the hours of lighting by lighting the lamps ten minutes earlier in the evening and keeping them lighted fifteen minutes later in the morning.
The number of incandescent lamps in Bowen Road remains unaltered. These are now lit at the cost of the Colonial Government, the arrangement whereby the Military Authorities contributed half the cost having terminated.
54. Gas Lighting, Kowloon.-The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year was 251, a decrease of 4 as compared with the previous year. Particulars of the positions of additional lamps erected and a note of the lamps removed will be found in paragraph 104 of this Report.
55. Electric Lighting, Kowloon.-The new section of Chatham Road forming the approaches to the bridge over the Railway was lighted with electric light, entailing an addition of 16 lamps of 16 candle-power and one lamp of 32 candle-power and bringing the total number of electric lamps in use to 39.