Expenditure.
Gas Lighting,
- P 2
- P2 -
Konrloon.
Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
$497.79 889.88 2,971.60
New Territories.
Maintenance of Telephones,
Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries,-Mainland,
Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,-Mainland,
Water Account (Meters, &c.),—Mainland,
1,213.21
183.18
426.60
173.29
The savings were much more than counterbalanced by excesses on other sub-heads, the principal of which were as follows:-
Maintenance of Buildings,..
Hongkong.
$13,972.35
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City,
44,551.26
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City,
7,964.15
Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,
1,901.37
Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District,
367.09
Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers,
631.48
Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds,
105.67
Stores Depreciation,
3,520.71
Maintenance of City and Hill District Water Works,
15,953.64
Water Account (Meters, &c.).
3,068.61
Kowloon.
Maintenance of Buildings,...
887.94
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges,
6,957.11
Maintenance of Sewers. Nullahs, &c.,
689.36
Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers,
7,489.91
Maintenance of Water Works,
2,039.03
Water Account (Meters, &c.),
753.92
New Territories.
Maintenance of Buildings.--Islands in Southern District,
Maintenance of Buildings,-Mainland and Islands in
740.97
Northern District,
504.83
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges, Mainland,
4,068.51
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,-Islands in Southern
District,
2,532.08
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,-Mainland and Islands in Northern District,
5,564.79
Upkeep of Plant,
2,266.24
The excesses on "Maintenance of Buildings" were due largely to the increased rates payable under the Contracts for 1914; those on "Maintenance of Roads" partly to the same cause and partly to the use of improved surfacing materials; that on "Praya Walls and