Item
Head 25.-PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT AND WATER WORKS.
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Approved Estimate, 1938.
Estimate, 1939.
Head 25.-PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT AND WATER WORKS.
A. PUBLIC WORKS (GENERAL) (1)
Sub-heads
1:-BUILDINGS.
Maintenance of Buildings
123
311,000
340,000
(2)
Improvements to Buildings
Maintenance of Lighthouses
28,000
10,000
34,500 (3) 10,000
22
349,000
384,500
2:-COMMUNICATIONS.
Roads and Bridges (Maintenance and Improvements) Maintenance of Telephones including all cables
297,000
21,100
344,000 (4) 22,100 (5)
318,100
366,100
3: DRAINAGE.
1 Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.
4:-LIGHTING.
14,000
46,000
44,000
46,000
1
Street Lighting
317,000
351,000
317,000
(6)
351,000
1
5:-TYPHOON & RAINSTORM DAMAGES. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages
30,000
46.000 (7)
30,000
46,000
6: MISCELLANEOUS.
Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers
34,000
36,000 (4)
2
Maintenance of Public Cemetery
2,000
2,000
Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries....
9,500
9,000
Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds
5,000
7,000
(4)
5 Dredging Foreshores
25,000
25,000
6
Boundary Stones
6,000
6,000
7
Survey of Colony
4,000
4,000
8
Maintenance of Vehicles Ferry Piers at Jubilee Street and
Jordan Road.
18,000
18,000
Stores Depreciation
100
(8)
103,600
107,000
1,161,700
1,300,600
Total A.-Public Works (General)..
B.—WATER WORKS. (1)
Sub-heads
1:-MAINTENANCE.
1 2 3
I
Maintenance of Water Works
Water Meters, Upkeep and repairs..
3
Maintenance of Workshop....
Total Maintenance Charges
2:-
Renewals and Improvements Fund, Contribution to..........
Total B. Water Works
346,000 92,500
435,000
(9)
126,000
(10)
7,000
(11)
438,500
568,000
399,907
399,907
967,907
(1) Previously shown under separate sub-heads of
Hong Kong, Kowloon, New Kowloon and New Territories.
(2) Increased maintenance, more buildings.
(3) Last year's provision insufficient.
(4) Increased maintenance.
(5) Increased costs and maintenance.
(6) Last year's provision insufficient and improve.
ments to main road lighting in Kowloon.
(7) Includes $16,000 for work to be completed on
damage caused by 1937 typhoon.
(8) Transferred to separate Head.
(9) Increa ed maintenance and provision for Waste
Detection work.
(10) Increased meterage and higher standard of meter
efficiency.
(11) New item: previously run as Suspense Account.
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