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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL
EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.
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Heads and Sub-Heads.
Estimated.
Actual.
Increase.
Decreuse.
Provisionally
Voted.
Explanatory Remarks.
$
Brought forward
15,318,075
$
14,755,434.16
$
$
807.726.14 1,455,366.98
PUBLIC WORKs,—Continued.
Brought forward -
516,000
478,008.63
8,110.65
46,102.02
9,341.00
B-PBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT.
Hongkong, Continued.
Lighting,
Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill
District
90,000
Electric Lighting, City, Hill District and
Shaukiwa...
88,500
Euteusious of Lighting.
1,500
84,809.72
85,916.20 12,757.90
5,190.28
2,583.80
11.257.90
11,800.00
Miscellaneous.
Mintenance of Prays Wall aul Piers
11,000
10,990.60
Do.
Public Cemetery ...
2,500
812.51
Do.
Chiuse Cemeteries.....
2,500
2,171.09
9.40 2,187.49 328.91
Do.
Public Recreation Grounds
4,000
2,098.08
1,001.02
Draging Foreshores....
12,000
13,903.67
Typhoon and Raiustorm Damages
22,000
Stores Depreciation
100
Boundary Stones ....
5,000
Survey of Colony
5,000
254,422.78 .87 3,096.87 4,778.02
1,908.07 232,422.78
3,000,00 232,423,00
99.19
1,308.13 221.98
1,000,00
I
Waterworks.
Do.
Shaukiwan
Do.
Aberdeen
Do.
Repulse Bay
Maintenance of City and Hill District......
Water Account, (Äleters, &c.).
230,000
274.109.92
44,199.92
45,000.00
1,200
951.64
248.36
1,200
609.82
596.18
1,000
234.72
785.28
24,000
34,028.25
10,029.25
16,000.00
Kowloon.
Over-estimated.
Do,
Additional lighting to various districts.
Kept down to the minimumu.
Do.
Do.
More work done than anticipated.
Excessive damage caused by the heavy rains during the
Less stone fixed than anticipated.
Early dry season necessitating additional pumping.
Kept down to the minimum.
Do.
Do.
More meters installed than anticipated.
year.
Buildings.
Maintenance of Buildings
Improvements to Buildings
Communications.
40,000
20,000
40,546.18 6,782.95
546.18
2,000.00
13.217.03
Heavy repairs to certain buildings were necessary on account of white ant ravages. Kept down to the minimum.
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges
70,000
45,034.12
24,965.88
Improvements to Roads and Bridges
5,000
Maintenance of Telephones
2,500
15.10 2.370 52
4,984.90
129.48
Do.
Do.
Do.
Drainage.
Maintenance of Sewers, Xullas, &................
9,000
7,578.95
1,426.05
Lighting.
Gas Lighting..
30,500
Electric Lighting
15,000
28,707.30 10,246.92
1,792,70
5.359.08
Over-estimated. Do
Extensions of Lighting..
1,500
1,500.96
.96
Miscellanean».
Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers
5,000
3.634.52
Do.
Chinese Cometeries
1.000
Do.
Recreation Grounds
1,000
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages
4,000
100.77 14.04 30,097.26
1,905.45 800.2
Kept down to the minimum.
Do.
77
985.
Do.
26,697.26
26,850,00
Excessive damage caused by heavy rains during the year.
Waterworks.
Maintenance of Waterworks... Water Atomist, (Meters, &c.)....
22,000
14,000
38,466.35 8,057.82
16.466.35
18,000.00
Rapid development in Kowloon.
5.942.18
Fewer meters installed than anticipated.
Carried forward
1,208,600
Carried forward
15,318,075
1,438,542.95 . 951,033.82
14,765,484.16 897,720.14
121,600.87
1,455,300.08
365.214.00
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