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The result of the arbitration and the expenses arising out of same were as follows:-
$
• Amount awarded to Mr. Tsang Keng,
• Half of Arbitrator's fee ($2,300)
• Messrs. Dennys & Bowley's Costs,
• Additional Commission payable to Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs on amount awarded to Mr. Tsang Keng,
35,600.94 1,150.00 5,445.75 2,029.05 Total, $44,225.74Certain small amounts, which had been deducted from Mr. Tsang Keng's Account on account of damage caused to trees and public roads by his operations, amounting to $779.79, were transferred to the respective votes to which the cost of the necessary repairs had been debited and the sum of $180.00 for unused stores, referred to in last year's Report, was credited to the Vote in 1911.
The cost of item (i) "Storage Reservoir" was incorrectly stated in last year's report as $622,499.48; it should have been $619,022.87. The total cost of the works should similarly have been given as $1,234,373.54 instead of $1,237,850.15.
The following is a statement of the cost of the works, including the Arbitrator's award and expenses incidental thereto and other items mentioned above:
(i.) Storage Reservoir :- Value of work executed by Contractors, 654,788.80 Costs of Arbitration and half of Arbitrator's fee, 6,595.75 661,384.55 (ii.) Caretaker's Bungalow, 19,093.04 (iii) Catchwaters (as before), 163,868.64 (iv.) Clearwater Channel (do.), 7,231.00 (v.) Main from Storage Reservoir to Filter Beds (do.), 60,723.35 (vi.) Filter Beds (do.), 68,496.40 (vii.) Main from Filter Beds to Service Reservoir (do.), 65,745.61 (viii.) Service Reservoir (do.), 67,639.31 (ix.) Main from Service Reservoir to Yaumati, &c., 74,490.05 (x) Miscellaneous : (a.) Engineers' Commission, 65,753.52 (b.)-(g.) as in 1910 Report, 24,953.60 90,707.12 Total Cost, $1,279,379.07Page 51