AnnualReport-1910 — Page 358

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Maintenance of Buildings in New Territories....$3,526.04

Maintenance of Telegraphs,

1,250.46

Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, etc.,

1,762.63

Gas Lighting, City of Victoria and the Peak,

1,075.12

Maintenance of Public Cemetery,

1,388.22

Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds,

1,199.33

Dredging Foreshores,..

3,254.15

Maintenance of City & Hill District Water Works, 9,228.88

Water Account (Meters, etc.,)

1,133.92

In addition to the above, the following two sub-heads under Public Works Recurrent appear for the first time :-

Laying out Chinese Cemeteries, etc.,... $5,299.98

Exhumation of remains in Cemeteries,

1,679.03

whilst the following sub-head disappears :-

Miscellaneous Services (1909 Expenditure),..

7,721.76

these alterations about balancing each other.

The principal decreases were as follows:-

Maintenance of Lighthouses,

1,167.80

Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City,

2,213.67

Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,.

1,703.84

Maintenance of Kowloon Waterworks,

1,596.46

The increase under item (iii) is small. Large sums were spent on resumptions of land in both years, the expenditure on this account amounting to $364,979 in 1910 as compared with $438,699.25 in 1909. The first-mentioned sum comprises $309,479 for lots at Kowloon Point and $55,500 for lots adjoining the old Western Market, the reconstruction of which is about to be begun.