No. 105.
HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
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HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.--I notice we are asked to vote $7,100. That sum is made up by including in the figures the cost of works already approved and/or awaiting approval. It seems rather to imply that we are going to approve of something we have not already approved of. Can you tell us the cost of the work already awaiting approval?
THE COLONIAL TREASURER.-It is very difficult to say.
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.-These are typhoon damages, and the typhoon which occurred on September 2 resulted in a great deal of damage to piers which had to be repaired immediately.
HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK,-But how much of the $54,000 has not yet been approved.
HON. MR. PATERSON.-There is quite a lot of work still not finished, but I do not think that that can be blamed on the P.W.D., because the contract appears to have been given to the lowest tenderer who is extremely slow. I live out at Sheung Shui and I pass certain typhoon damage which has not yet been repaired. It was done in the first typhoon, a good long time ago and, incidentally, one gentleman, who repairs the road, puts a few stones down and a great deal of red earth, and the red earth comes out all over the road and the work has to be done again.
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.--I think you are referring to a contractor who has been taken off the list. We have had to take the work out of his hands.
HON. MR. PATERSON.-I am glad of that.
HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.-I want to know how much of the $54,000 represents work, the cost of which is awaiting approval.
THE CHAIRMAN.-The $54,000 has been approved.
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.-The first portion of $25,000 was in the estimates and the second was approved in Message No. 10.
HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.-Then it has all been approved? This has all been sanctioned by the Council?
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.-Yes.
No. 120.
HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.-Will the $48,000 complete the work?
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