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Valuations comprising 759 hereditaments, with a total estimated value of $7,784,888.00 were made for sundry Government Departments.
Town Planning.
A revised layout was prepared for Kowloon Tsai. No other new schemes or revisions of any importance were prepared during 1939, development having been in accordance with the recommendations of the Town Planning Committee of 1922 or with amendments and additions previously reported.
Expenditure.
The average annual expenditure on Public Works for the decade 1910 to 1919 was $2,447,010; 1920 to 1929, $7,410,820; 1930 to 1939, $8,549,732,
Comparative expenditure for 1938 and 1939 is as follows:-
1938 1939 Public Works Department $2,213,667.71 $1,856,258.64 Public Works Recurrent :- (a) General 1,811,168.55 1,279,837.52 (b) Water Works 1,063,856.71 Water Works Renewals and Improvements Fund 80,331.25 Public Works Extraordinary 1,899,902.40 1,817,096.51 Works undertaken and charged to Loan Accounts 1,657,596.33 1,508,912.71 Miscellaneous Works 555,649.47 461,716.31 Total $8,137,984.46 $8,068,009.65Chapter XIII.
JUSTICE AND POLICE.
The Courts of Hong Kong.
THE SUPREME COURT.
[Please see also Chapter XIII. of the 1938 Report.]
The following figures shew the amount of work done in the Supreme Court during the year, 1939.
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Valuations comprising 759 hereditaments, with a total estimated value of $7,784,888.00 were made for sundry Government Departments.
Town Planning.
A revised layout was prepared for Kowloon Tsai. No other new schemes or revisions of any importance were prepared during 1939, development having been in accordance with the recommendations of the Town Planning Committee of 1922 or with amendments and additions previously reported.
Expenditure.
The average annual expenditure on Public Works for the decade 1910 to 1919 was $2,447,010; 1920 to 1929, $7,410,820; 1930 to 1939, $8,549,732,
Comparative expenditure for 1938 and 1939 is as follows:-
1938.
1939.
Public Works Department
$2,213,667.71
$1,856,258.64
Public Works Recurrent :-
(a) General
1,811,168.55 1,279,837.52
(b) Water Works
1,063,856.71
Water Works Renewals and Improvements Fund
80,331.25
Public Works Extraordinary
1,899,902.40
1,817,096.51
Works undertaken and charged to Loan
Accounts
1,657,596.33
1,508,912.71
Miscellaneous Works
555,649.47
461,716.31
Total
$8,137,984.46
$8,068,009.65
Chapter XIII.
JUSTICE AND POLICE.
The Courts of Hong Kong.
THE SUPREME COURT.
[Please see also Chapter XIII. of the 1938 Report.]
The following figures shew
Court during the year, 1939.
the amount of work done in the Supreme
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