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Head 24.-PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT AND WATER WORKS.
Head 24. PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT AND WATER WORKS.
Approved Estimate, 1939.
Estimate, 1940-41.
$
A.-PUBLIC WORKS (GENERAL).
Item
Sub-heads
1:-BUILDINGS.
1
Maintenance of Buildings
340,000
2
Improvements to Buildings
34,500
375,000 50,000
(1) (2)
Maintenance of Lighthouses
10,000
11,000 (3.)
384,500
436,000
2:-COMMUNICATIONS.
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Roads and Bridges (Maintenance and Improvements) Maintenance of Telephones including all cables
344,000 22,100
450,000 (4)
27,700
Maintenance of Vehicles
Maintenance of Quarries
82,000 (5)
37,500 (6)
366,100
597,200
3:-DRAINAGE.
1 Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.
46,000
65,000 (7)
46,000
65,000
4:-LIGHTING.
Street Lighting
351,000
462,000 -(8)
351,000
462,000
5:-TYPHOON & RAINSTORM DAMAGES. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages
46,000
40,000
(3)
46,000
40,000
6: MISCELLANEOUS.
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Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers
36,000
45,000
Maintenance of Public Cemetery
2.000
2,500
Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries..
9,000
11,250
Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds
7,000
8,750
5 Dredging Foreshores
25,000
31,250
6
Boundary Stones
6,000
6,000
(3)
Survey of Colony
4,000
5,000
Maintenance of Vehicles Ferry Piers at Jubilee Street and
Jordan Road
18,000
22,500
9
Maintenance of Anti-Malarial Works
5,000 (2)
107,000
137,250
Total A.-Public Works (General).....
1,300,600
1,737,450
B.-WATER WORKS.
Sub-heads
Maintenance of Water Works
1:-MAINTENANCE.
435,000
2
Water Meters, Upkeep and repairs...
126,000
Maintenance of Workshop........
7,000
630,000 (9) 175,000 (10) (11)
Total Maintenance Charges
568,000
805,000
2:-
Renewals and Improvements Fund, Contribution to.........................
399,907
440,501
Total B.-Water Works
399,907
967,907
440,501
1,245,501
(1) Considered sufficient for this year only.
(2) Considered necessary.
(3) Considered sufficient.
(4) Considered necessary to improve bends and keep
roads in good condition.
(5) To replace Head 24A, Sub-heads 13, 15 & 16
(1939 Estimates)—
Increase due to working of additional Rollers, Cars and Lorries, and to the closing of the Lorry Haulage Suspense Account. (6) To replace Head 24A,
Estimates)-
Sub-head 17 (1939
Increase due to extra quarry which will be in operation and to the closing of the Quarry Suspense Account.
(7) Considered necessary for increased length of
sewers, nullahs and storm water drains.
(8) Increase due to improved main road lighting. (9) Increased maintenance and additional pumping Also includes provision for workshop previously separately provided.
(10) Increased meterage.
(11) Included under Maintenance of Water Works.
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