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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL

EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1915.

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Heads and Sub-Heads.

Estimated. Actual.

Increase.

Decrense.

Provisionally

Voted.

Explanatory Remarks.

Brought forward,

7,808,326

$

$ 7,817,922.67 898,649.83

$

889,053.16

$

PUBLIC WORKS,—Continued,

Brought forward,

505,800

492,270.79 34,479.08 48,008.29

33,580.00

B.-PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT,-Continued.

Drainage.

Maintenance of Sewers, Nullalis, &c.......

6,000

5,412.80

587.20

Over-estimated.

Lighting.

Gas Lighting,.

12,000

Electric Lighting,

2,000

11,960.49 2,093,31

39.51

93.31

200.00

Street lighting extended to Tai Kok Tsui.

Miscellaneous,

Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers,

1,500

1,507.00

7.00

Do.

Chinese Cemeteries,

1,000

28.50

971.50

Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,

5,000

758.71

4,241.29

Over-estimated,

No serious storm.

Waterworks.

Maintenance of Waterworks,

9,000

9,893.78

893.78

Water Account, (Meters, &c.),

3,000

4,363.52 1,863.52

2,000.00 2,300.00

Increased consumption of water,

Additional meters fixed,

NEW TERRITORIES,

Buildings.

Maintenance of Buildings.—Jelauda in Southern

District,

1,500

1,300.84

199.16

Over-estimated.

Improvements to Buildings,-Islands in Southern

District,

5:00

500.00

Do.

Maintenance of Buildings,-Mainland and Islands in

Northern District,...

6,500

Improvements to Buildings,-Mainland and Islands

in Northern District,

500

6,554.95

219,30

54.95

60.00

281.70

Do.

Communications.

Maintenance of Roads and Bridges, Mainland,.......... Improvements to Roads and Bridges--Mainland, Maintenance of Telephones,-Mainland,

14,000

2,000

4,000

13,868.79 1,999.71 1,209.45

181,21

.29

2,790.55

Do.

Drainage.

Maintenance of Sewers, Nullalis, &c.—Mainland, .

500

400,85

99.15

Do.

Miscellaneous.

Maintenance of Chinese Cemeterics,—Mainland, Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,-Islands in

Southern District,

500

101.28

398.72

Do

500

174.84

$25.16

Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages, Mainland and

Islands in Northern District,

No serious storm.

2,500

2,182.63

317.87

Do,

Waterworks.

Maintenance of Laichikok,

Water Account, (Meters, &c.),

1,500 500

1,686.93 460.56

186.93

350.00

39.44

580,300 558,448.03

37,078.57

Less Increase...

58,930.54 37,078.57

38,490.00

Savings,

21,851.97

L

Carried forward,

8,388,626

8,376,370.70 935,728.40 947,983,70

Extensive repairs to channel to Filter Beds. Over-estimated.