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Annexe A.
ANNUALLY RECURRENT EXPENDITURE, 1924.
HEADS AND SUB-HEADS.
ESTIMATED. PROVISION- ACTUAL. INCREASE. DECREASE. ALLY BALANCE. $ C. $ c. $ C. $ c. ESTABLISHMENT. Personal Emoluments, 986,750 1,040,643.87 53,893.87 Other Charges, 105,792 143,838.40 38,046.40 1,092,642 1,184,482.27 91,840.27 VOTED. Special Expenditure :— Safe for Accounts Office, 285.63 285.63 PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT. HONGKONG. Buildings. 1. Maintenance of Buildings, 178,540.21 124,646.34 53,893.87 42,314.60 1,268.30 2. Improvements to Buildings, 220,854.81 128,914.64 91,940.27 Communications. 4. Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City, 286.00 .37 5. Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City, 150,000 228,541.31 78,541.31 30,000 71,649.52 41,649.52 6. Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City, 81,561.12 3,019.81 41,085.97 563.55 6,000 7,997.67 1,997.67 7. Improvements to Roads and Bridges outside City, 1,999.98 2.31 100,000 114,994.68 14,994.68 * Maintenance of Telephones, including all Cables, 85,000 83,226.90 1,773.10 Drainage. 9. Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c., 35,000 27,680.43 7,319.57 Lighting. 10. Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District, 1,500 11,000 9,012.87 11. Electric Lighting, City, Hill District and Shaukiwan, 20,000.00 5,005.32 12. Extensions of Lighting, Miscellaneous. 13. Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers, 25,000 24,414.87 585.13 585.13 14. Public Cemetery, 8,000 14,378.75 6,378.75 5,868.31 510.44 15. Chinese Cemeteries, 2,500 1,987.56 512.44 512.44 16. Public Recreation Grounds, 2,500 2,459.25 40.75 40.75 19. Stores Depreciation, 4,000 3,207.93 792.07 792.07 168.79 Water Works. 17. " Shaukiwan, Aberdeen, 17. Dredging Foreshores, 12,000 14,331.21 2,331.21 18. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages, 22,000 378,335.65 356,335.65 2,500.00 352,848.50 20. Boundary Stones, 100 48.20 21. Survey of Colony, 5,000 2,682.51 2,317.49 51.80 2,317.49 6,157.51 22. Maintenance of City and Hill District, 5,000 5,342.49 342.49 23. 6,500.00 25. Water Account, (Meters, &c.), ... 3,487.15 210,000 251,686.98 41,686.98 1,200 1,000 83.88 1,283.88 678.37 22,000 32,312.81 10,312.81 30,000.00 600.00 11,686.98 516.12 321.63 Carried forward, 835,800 1,399,257.78 583,039.88 14,000.00 19,582.10 588,963.88 321.63 3,687.19 41,754.22 16,248.12