CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7] — Page 331

OP Y.

No.328.

Sir,

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Enclosure No. 8 to Despatch No. 354 of the

14th. June, 1902.

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Public Works Office. HongKong, 24th. May, 1902.

I have the honour to request that supplemen-

tary provision may be obtained in aid of the following Annually

Recurrent Votes to the extent stated:-

(1)

Maintenance of Waterworks, City & Hill

District.

$48,000

(2)

Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in

the City.

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$25,000

(8)

Waterworks Miscellaneous.

$15,500

(4)

Drainage Works Miscellaneous.

$23,000

(5)

Forming and Kerbing Streets.

$20,000

THE HONOURABLE

With regard to (1), the necessity for the

supplementary provision has arisen principally out of the recent

severe drought, on account of which extensive measures were

adopted for supplementing the supply obtainable from the ordinary

sources.

With regard to (23), great complaints were

made during last year as to the condition of the roads and the

Commission which recently enquired into the working of the Public

Works Department urged the necessity of every attempt being made

to bring them into a state creditable to the Colony.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.

The