Appendix P.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.
EXPENDITURE.
1. The amounts voted, as compared with those actually expended by the Department under the various headings, were as follows:-
(i) Personal Emoluments and Other Charges,. (ii) Annually Recurrent Works......
(iii) Extraordinary Works,
Total,.
AMOUNTS VOTED. Actual Expenditure. Total. In Estimates. Supplement-ary Votes. $ C. C. C. C. (i) 268,126 4,115.46 437,500 108,970.00 $22,900 265,858,00 (ii) 272,241.16 266,477.51 546,470,00 512,336.30 1,088,758.00 1,000,945,45 (iii) 1,528,326 378,943.46 1,907,469.46 ,779,749.26Detailed statements of items (ii) and (iii) are given in Appendices A and B. With regard to (i), the amount actually expended is within per cent. of the amount in the Estimates.
In the case of (ii), the following were the sub-heads under which the principal excesses occurred :-
Maintenance of Buildings, $ ('. 2,998.13 Lighthouses. Telegraphis... 11,071.80 2,623.4 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,. 83,096.05 Maintenance of Kowloon Water Works,. 6,491.33The excess on Maintenance of Buildings was due to the extensive repairs which had to be carried out at Queen's College; that on Lighthouses to the restoration of cable communication with Gap Rock, the adoption of exceptional measures for the protection of the cable and the provision of new glass for the lantern and Muntz metal shutters to the windows of the quarters there; that on Telegraphs to the provision of a new armoured end at Waglan for the cable communication with the lighthouse and an extensive alteration of the Government lines at the intersection of Pedder Street and Des Vœux Road; that on Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages to the typhoon of the 18th September, 1906, and to the rainstorm and typhoon of the 23rd and 27th July, 1905, respectively; and that on Maintenance of Water Works, Kowloon, to the laying of additional mains or substitution of larger mains for the distribution of an increased supply of water.
The only notable savings were under the following sub-heads :-
Dredging Foreshores,.... $ 3,899.16 Maintenance of City and Hill District Water Works, 19,231.5In the case of the first item, the saving was due to the dredger requiring no expensive renewals and in the case of the second item to very little pumping from Tytam Intermediate Reservoir being found necessary.
The large excess under (iii) was due to the purchase of the Dredger St. Enoch and the starting of dredging operations for the construction of the Mongkok tsui Breakwater, which together accounted for $183,693.32, any excesses under other sub-heads being more than counterbalanced by savings under others.
Besides the works or amounts expended appearing in Appendix B, the following sums were paid out of "Deposits not Available":-
Extension of Medical Staff Quarters, $ C. 7,911.19 Nursing Association. Kowloon-Canton R'way. 75.90 Owners of Lots. Kowloon Cattle Depôt and Slaughter House, 619.06 Boundary Stones in New Territories,.........Appendix P.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.
EXPENDITURE.
1. The amounts voted, as compared with those actually expended by the Department under the various headings, were as follows:-
(i) Personal Emoluments and Other Charges,. (ii) Annually Recurrent Works......
(iii) Extraordinary Works,
Total,..
AMOUNTS VOTED.
In Estimates.
Supplement- ary Votes.
Actual Expenditure.
Total.
C.
C.
268,126 4,115.46 437,500 108,970.00 $22,900 265,858,00
272,241.16 266,477.51 546,470,00 512,336.30 1,088,758.00 1,000,945,45
1,528,326
378,943.46
1,907,469.46 ,779,749.26
Detailed statements of items (ii) and (iii) are given in Appendices A and B. With regard to (i), the amount actually expen le is within per cent. of the amount in the Estimates.
In the case of (ii), the following were the sub-heads under which the principal excesses occurred :-
Maintenance of Buildings,
"
, Lighthouses. Telegraphis...
-1
$ ('. 2,998.13
11,071.80
2,623.4
"
Typhoon aud Rainstorm Damages,.
Maintenance of Kowloon Water Works,.
83,096.05
6,491.33
The excess on Maintenance of Buildings was due to the extensive repairs which had to be carried out at Queen's College; that on Lighthouses to the restoration of cable com- munication with Gap Rock, the adoption of exceptional measures for the protection of the cable and the provision of new glass for the lantern and Muntz metal shutters to the windows of the quarters there; that on Telegraphs to the provision of a new armoured end at Waglan for the cable communication with the lighthouse and an extensive alteration of the Government lines at the intersection of Pedder Street and Des Vœux Road; that on Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages to the typhoon of the 18th September, 1906, and to the rainstorm and typhoon of the 23rd and 27th July, 1905, respectively; and that on Mainten- ance of Water Works, Kowloon, to the laying of additional mains or substitution of larger mains for the distribution of an increased supply of water.
The only notable savings were under the following sub beads :-
Dredging Foreshores,....
Maintenance of City and Hill District Water Works,
$ 3,899.16 19,231.5
J
In the case of the first item, the saving was due to the dredger requiring no expensive renewals and in the case of the second item to very little pumping from Tytam Intermediate Reservoir being found necessary.
The large excess under tiii) was due to the purchase of the Dredger St. Enoch and and the starting of dreamseverations for the construction of the Mongkok tsui Break water, which together accomm$183,693.32, any excesses under other sub-heads being more than counterbalanced savings under others.
Besides the works or amounts expended appearing in Appendix B, the following sums
d out of "Deposits not Available":-
were pa
Paid by
Extension of Medical Staff Quarters,
$
C.
7,911.19
75.90
Nursing Association. Kowloon-Canton R'way. Owners of Lots.
Kowloon Cattle Depôt and Slaughter House, 619.06 Boundary Stones in New Territories,.........
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