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HONG KONG ESTIMATES
PUBLIC WORKS.
PUBLIC WORKS,—Continued.
B.—PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT.
HONGKONG.
BUILDINGS.
1 Maintenance of Buildings,
2 Improvements to Buildings,
3 Maintenance of Lighthouses,
COMMUNICATIONS.
4 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City........... 5 Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City,
Approved Estimate, 1921.
Estimate, 1922.
*
100,000
15,000 6,000
100,000 15,000 6,000
90,000
95,000
(1)
25,000
25,000
6 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City,...
45,000
45,000
7 Improvements to Roads and Bridges outside City,
7,000
7,000
8 Maintenance of Telephones including all Cables,
8,000
8,000
DRAINAGE.
9 Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,
LIGHTING.
19,000 |
20,000 (2)
10 Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District, 11 Electric Lighting, City, Hill District, aud Shaukiwan,
63,000
26,000
65,750 26.750 (4)
(3)
MISCELLANEOUS.
12 Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers,
8,000
10,000 (5)
13 Maintenance of Public Cemetery,
2,500
2.500
14 Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries,
2,500
2,500
15 Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds,.
4,000
4,000
16 Dredging Foreshores,
9,000
17 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
22,000
12,000 22,000
(6)
18 Stores Depreciation,......
100
100
WATER WORKS.
19 Maintenance of City and Hill District,
160,000
20 Maintenance of Shaukiwan,
1,000
21 Maintenance of Aberdeen,
1,000
22 Water Account, (Meters, &c.),
12,000
Total Hongkong,.....
Carried forward,..
626,100
626,100
180,000 (7)
1,200 (8)
1,000
14,000
(9)
662,800
662,800
(1) Increased cost of labour and materials.
(2) Additional sewers and nuliahs recently constructed. (3) Additional lamps to be maintained. (4) Additional lights to be maintained. (5) Additional piers to be maintained.
(6) The amount provided for 1921 is proving insufficient. (7) Increased consumption necessitating extra pumping. (S) Increased consumption.
(9) Greatly increased building development involving a larger
unmber of meters being supplied.
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