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HONGKONG ESTIMATES
PUBLIC Works.
PUBLIC WORKS,—Continued.
B.—PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT.
HONGKONG.
1 Maintenance of Buildings,
BUILDINGS.
2 Improvements to Buildings,
3 Maintenance of Lighthouses,
COMMUNICATIONS.
Approved Estimate, 1922.
Estimate, 1923.
f
100,000
100,000
15,000
15,000
6,000
6,000
4 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City, 5 Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City,
95,000
95,000
25,000
25,000
6 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City,
£5,000
50,000
(1)
7 Improvements to Roads and Bridges outside City,
7,000
7,000
S Maintenance of Telephones including all Cables,...
8,000
8,000
DRAINAGE.
9 Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,
20,000 |
20.000
LIGHTING.
10 Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District,. 11 Electric Lighting, City, Hill District, and Shaukiwan, 12 Extensions of Lighting,
65,750
26.750
78,000 25,000
(2)
(3)
1,500 (4)
MISCELLANEOUS.
13 Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers, 14 Maintenance of Public Cemetery,
10,000
11,000
(5)
2,500
2,500
15 Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries,..
2,500
2,500
16 Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds,.
4,000
4.000
17 Dredging Foreshores, ..
12,000
12,000
18 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
22,000
22,000
19 Stores Depreciation...
100
100
20 Boundary Stones,..
21 Survey of Colony,
1,500 3,000
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WATER WORKS.
2 Maintenance of City and Hill District,
180,000
3 Maintenance of Shaukiwan,
1,200
190,000 (5)
1,200
4 Maintenance of Aberdeen,
1,000
5 Water Account, (Meters, &c.),
14,000
1,000 18,000 (5)
Total Hongkong....
662,800
Carried forward,...
(1) Necessary in consequence of heavier traffic and new roads. (2) Due to adoption of new type of burner giving better
illumination.
662,800
(3) New contract for electric lighting.
(4) Transferred from P.W.E.
(5) General increase in costs.
699,300
699,300
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