Public Works votes. The estimated expenditure on "Public Works, annually recurrent" during 1902 is $316,600. That on Public Works extraordinary is $797,300. Both these totals are automatic increases to the estimate for the current year; which in their turn were considerably in excess of the preceding year, the total excess amounting to $331,000.
11. I assumed, therefore, in my telegram referred to above, that Your Lordship would find it necessary to cut down the estimated expenditure. The actual expenditure of preceding years would effect this.
10. I note, moreover, that if the first seventeen items under Public Works Extraordinary are not new works which have appeared before the Colonial Estimates, no less than eight of them (not including the New Kowloon Waterworks Extension Scheme to which I have referred already) have increased since last year, the total excess amounting to $331,000.
12. In this connexion I have to inform you that I have carefully considered your despatch No. 453 of...
public works votes. The 8 estimated expenditure on "public works, annually
recurent, during 1902 in $316,600. that on publi works extrandhway, is $797,300. Both thes
totals
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are
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increases
to estimate for
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year; which
in their lum,
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were
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the total exces
Year:
amounting to $331,000.
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therefore, in my telegram.
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The actual expenditure
of preceding years.
10. I note, moreover,
whith
that if the first
seventeen items under
Publi Works Extranding,
are not ow
works which have affered
the Colonial Estimates
before the batch estimation ofthe
cost of
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no less than
ofthem (not
including the New
various
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making your
you, in
selection
to let yourself be guided
by the necessity of not
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the staff
of the Publi wat's Def I during 1902.
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12. In this
Connexion I have to uniform
you
that I have carefully considered you, destitch No. 453 of
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