Appendix P.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE YEAR 1914.
Expenditure.
1. The amounts voted, as compared with those actually expended by the Department under the various headings, were as follows:
Amount voted in Estimates. Supplemen-tary Votes. Actual Expenditure. Total. (i) Personal Emoluments and Other Charges, $432,580.00 $19,285.10 $451,815.10 $413,850.57 (i) Special Expenditure:- Furniture, 660.00 660.00 660.00 (ii) Annually Recurrent Works, 481,000.00 145,009.83 626,009.83 $567,100.18 (iii) Extraordinary Works... 2,130,800.00 138,316.44 2,269,116.44 $1,639,594.72 Total..... $3,044,330.00 $303,271.37 $3,347,601.37 $2,621,203.47B.
Detailed statements of (ii) and (iii) are given in Annexes A and
With regard to (i), the saving is due to vacancies in the Staff, lapsing pay of Officers on leave and refunds on account of supervision of work executed by the Department for various public companies.
In the case of (ii), savings occurred under the following sub-heads as set forth below:-
Hongkong.
Maintenance of Lighthouses, $477.61
Maintenance of Telephones, including all cables, 340.83
Electric Lighting, City, 123.57
Maintenance of Public Cemetery,.. 250.21
Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries, 3,382.60
Dredging Foreshores, 4.
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
Maintenance of Shaukiwan Water Works, Maintenance of Aberdeen Water Works,. 9,956.43 12,388.09 572.52 223.95