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These are in substitution for two others, placed on the 1901 Estimates. The estimated total cost of the two original pair was $27,000; the cost of these will be $36,500.
Item 20 $452. to Harbour agree. Xin measured "Fees C.Pd. secured to Set them The Clock Tower. Mp. 28: see $31 improvements in lighting approached has been approved by the Secretary of State.
Items 21, 22 and 23 were not on the 1901 Estimates, and therefore required the approval of the Secretary of State, under Colonial Regulations 344-348, before expenditure was begun or at least as soon as possible after taking a vote in Council. In all three cases work has actually been begun. Out of a total estimated cost of $103,000, $20,000 is estimated to be spent before 1 January, 1902. No despatch or telegram can be traced asking for the Secretary of State's sanction for these works. I think that this point requires investigation, and, if the explanation is not thoroughly satisfactory, the Governor should be told that this sort of thing cannot be allowed.
Some of the remaining 27 items are all new. them we cannot object to e.g. the Slaughter House at Shankiwan, the disinfecting station in Kowloon, and the bacteriological institute. But the rest I think should be remorselessly cut down. I have marked certain items which I think might be postponed, or considerably reduced; but I am not sure that it might not be better to say generally that the Governor must keep the expenditure on Public Works Extraordinary below the estimate by at least $200,000.
I see nothing else in the estimate of expenditure
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These are in substitution for two others, placed on
the 1901 Estimates. The estimated total cost of the
two original pair was $27,000; the cost of these
will be $36,500.
Item 20
$452.
to Harbour
agree.
Xin measured
"Fees C.Pd.
sichered to Set them The Clock Toever.
Mp. 28:
see
$31
improvements in lighting approached
has been approved by the Secretary of State.
Items 21, 22 and 23 were not on the 1901
Estimates, and therefore required the approval of the Secretary of State, under Colonial Regulations 344-348,
before expenditure was begun or at least as soon as
In all three possible after taking a vote in Council.
Out of a total
cases work has actually been begun. estimated cost of $103,000, $20,000 is estimated to be spent before 1 January, 1902. No despatch or telegram
can be traced asking for the Secretary of State's
sanction for these works. I think that this point re-
quires investigation, and, if the explanation is not thoroughly satisfactory, the Governor should be told that this sort of thing cannot be allowed.
Some of
The remaining 27 items are all new.
them we cannot object to e.g. the Slaughter House
at Shankiwan, the disinfecting station in Kowloon,
But the rest I and the bacteriological institute.
I have marked think should be remorselessly cut down. certain items which I think might be postponed, or considerably reduced; but I am not sure that it might not be better to say generally that the Governor must keep the expenditure on Public Works Extraordinary below the estimate by at least $200,000.
I see no thing else in the estimate of ex-
pendi ture
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