AnnualReport-1919 — Page 384

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Dredging Foreshores, $ 1,518.68 Stores Depreciation, 1,756.28 Maintenance of Aberdeen Water Works, Kowloon. 587.52 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges, 1,348.77 Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, etc., 1,146.35 Gas Lighting, 1,621.20 Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries, 500.00 New Territories. Maintenance of Roads and Bridges, 547.01 Maintenance of Telephones, 1,177.94

The savings were far more than counterbalanced by excesses on other sub-heads, the principal of which were the following:-

Hongkong. Maintenance of Buildings, $14,918.35 Improvements to Buildings, 15,947.64 Maintenance of Lighthouses, 1,913.05 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City, 7,742.54 Improvements to Roads and Bridges outside City, 32,219.85 Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers, 2,476.11 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages, 9,047.31 Maintenance of City and Hill District Water Works, 40,897.04 Water Account, (Meters, etc.), 1,090.85 Kowloon, Maintenance of Buildings, 2,010.08 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages, 1,494.01 Maintenance of Water Works, 2,733.15 Water Account, (Meters, etc.), 1,205.89 New Territories. Maintenance of Buildings, 3,009.31 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages, 5,688.71 Maintenance of Laichikok Water Works. 701.99