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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Add 10% for C/A charges, Mis- cellaneous works and contin- gencies
56,500
$621,500
Say $622,000
the cost of constructing a seaplane slipway
To the figure of $622,000 has to be added:
(a)
(b) the cost of raising and regrading the
western area of the Air Port .. (c) salaries
110,000
18,000 50,000
Total $800,000
The new hangar will be five feet higher than the existing one, to allow for air mail planes, and will include an administration block. Otherwise the cost of the two hangars will be practically the same.
The figure for salaries allows for one engineer, one overseer, two foremen, whom it is anticipated will be engaged on the work. It is necessarily an approximate figure, as the number of staff and the individual officers may vary slightly during the period of con- struction.
It is anticipated that the work will take about two years to complete.
I now move "That this Council approves the construction of a Civil Hangar and slipway at the Kai Tak Aerodrome, and the raising and regrading of the western area of the air port at an estimated cost of $800,000."
THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and the motion was agreed to.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.-I also move "That this Council authorises the said sum cf $800,000 to be charged to a future loan, and sanctions an advance of a sum of $520,000 to be spent during the financial year 1933 from the surplus balances of the Colony."
THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and the motion was agreed to.
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