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originally provided occurred in Maintenance of Buildings $42,184, Maintenance of roads and bridges in and outside the City $21,206, Maintenance of Water-works City $35,296, Maintenance of Water-works Kowloon, $14,054, Dredging Foreshores, $5,539, Maintenance of roads and bridges in the New Territories $18,729. The provision of $121,800 for the purchase of water meters was exceeded by $245,254 owing to the adoption of universal meterage added to normal expansion.
Public Works Extraordinary.
More work was carried out on the rubble mound at North Point involving an increase of $24,987. The improvement of main roads in Kowloon for motor traffic cost $25,522 more than the provision. More road conditioning at Shataukok was undertaken during the year involving $13,962 over the estimate. The following are some of the items which were not inserted in the original estimates but provided by supplementary votes during the year. Purchase of House No. 525 The Peak $48,000, Free connection in Rider main areas $15,475, Additions to Kowloon Hospital $19,852, Improving and Strengthening main roads New Territories $47,566, Improvements to Taipo Water-works and Fanling Water-works $9,954 and $6,793 respectively.