# Appendix Q
# REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
# FOR THE YEAR 1922.
## 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. Total. Less re-dis- tribution of Votes author- ised in Lists Nos. 1 and 2, (vide U.S.O. 3220/1922). Net Total voted. Actual Expendi- ture. (i) Personal Emolu- ments and Other Charges, $800,330.00 $104,840.58 $905,170.58 $4,000.00 $901,170.58 $820,529.49 (A) Special Expen- diture Type- writers, etc.,...... $1,350.00 $1,350.00 $1,350.00 $1,145.40 (ii) Annually Recur- rent Works. $899,550.00 $243,613.98 $1,143,163.93 $180,800.00 $962,363.93 $1,074,646.30 (iii) Extraordinary Works. ... $6,611,300.00 $941,717.41 $7,553,017.41 $533,063.10 $7,019,954.31 $3,575,635.19 Total, $8,312,530.00 $1,290,171.92 $9,602,701.92 $717,863.10 $8,884,838.82 $5,471,956.38Detailed statements of (ii) and (iii) are given in Annexes A and B.
With regard to (i), the saving is due partly to refunds on account of super- vision of work executed by the Department for various Companies and partly to the higher rate of exchange for the greater part of the year than the one at which Sterling Salaries in the Estimates were converted.
In the case of (ii), savings occurred on the following sub-heads as set forth below:-
Maintenance of Lighthouses, $2,887.21 Hongkong. Buildings. $5,783.20 Communications. Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City, Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City, $1,026.47