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HONGKONG ESTIMATES
PUBLIC WORKS.
1.-PUBLIC WORKS,—Continued.
B.-PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT.
HONGKONG,
BUILDINGS.
1 Maintenance of Buildings,
2 Maintenance of Lighthouses,
COMMUNICATIONS.
Approved Estimate, 1913.
Estimate, 1914.
51,000 4,500
61,000 4,500
(1)
3 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City,
60,000
66,000
(2)
4 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City, 5 Maintenance of Telephones including all cables,
26,000
26,000
6,500
6,500
DRAINAGE.
6 Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,
14,000
14,000
*
LIGHTING,
7 Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District, 8 Electric Lighting, City,
47,500
23,000
48,000 23,500
} (3)
MISCELLANEeous.
9 Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers,
4,500
4,500
10 Maintenance of Public Cemetery,
2,500
2,500
11 Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries,
4,000
4,000
12 Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds,
3,000
3,000
13 Dredging Foreshores,
7,000
12,000
(4)
14 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,.
24,000
24,000
15 Town Clock,
200
(5)
16 Stores Depreciation,
200
4,800
(6)
WATER WORKS.
17 Maintenance of City and Hill District,
50,000
65,000 (7)
18 Maintenance of Shaukiwan..
1,000
1,000
19 Maintenance of Aberdeen,
500
20 Water Account, (Meters, &c.),
7,500
500 7,500
Total Hongkong,................
Carried forward,.......
336,900
336,900
378,300
378,300
(1) Increased number of buildings and increase in cost of
work.
(2) Increase in cost of work.
(3) Increase in number of lamps.
(4) $1,000 transferred from item 30; $4.000 added on account
of more dredging.
Clock Tower demolished.
(6) Estimated loss on sale of obsolete stores.
(7) Extra pumping and cost of filtering due to increased
consumption.
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