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condition for vehicular traffic.
The Colony is justly proud
of its splendid roads, and it would be false economy not to
keep them up properly.
Head 31 Public Works Extraordinary.
It has boon customary to speak at length on the details of this head when introducing the Budget. This year a memorandum by the Director of Public Works on the works
which it is proposed to undertake has been placed before
cach Honourable Member. This gives fuller details than would be possible in a speech, and it is hoped that this new doparture will prove a convenience to Honourable Members.
The Head, Public Works Extraordinary, is in some
ways more interesting for what it omits than for what it
contains. Almost all the larger items are for works to which
the Colony is committed, and until these are completed no
new schemes of any magnitude can be contemplated except
from Loan Funds. A very long list of urgent public works
was very carefully considered, but as Honourable Members will
sec from the figures placed before them the services we have provided for have used up practically the whole of our
available balances and we cannot undertake further liabilities
without funds. It is needless for me to enumerate the many works which have had to stand over apart altogether from large schemes such as the Vehicular Ferry, and the Increased
Water Supply which can only be considered in conjunction
with a further loan. There are Hospitals, Markets, Latrines,
Bath Houses, Schools, Roads, a Police Training School, Police Stations, Public Bathing Beaches, the Kowloon Point Improve-
ments, Wireless Direction Finders, and many other works which the Government would gladly undertake if they could be accomplished without increasing the burden of taxation. As
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