FOR THE YEAR 1924.
[Class VI]
75
PUBLIC Works.
PUBLIC WORKS,- Continued.
B.-PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT.
HONGKONG.
BUILDINGS.
Maintenance of Buildings,
Improvements to Buildings,
Maintenance of Lighthouses,..
COMMUNICATIONS.
Approved Estimate, 1923.
Estimate, 1924.
$
100,000
15,000
6,000
150,000 30,000 6,000
} (1) (2)
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City, Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City, Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City,
95,000
100,000
(2)
25,000
25,000
50,000
70,000
Improvements to Roads and Bridges outside City, Maintenance of Telephones including all Cables,
(2) (3)
7,000
7,000
8,000
8,000
DRAINAGE.
Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,
20,000
20,000
LIGHTING.
Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District,...............
78,000
85,000
Electric Lighting, City, Hill District, and Shaukiwan,
25,000
35,000 (4)
Extensions of Lighting,
1,500
1,500
MISCELLANEOUS.
Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers,
11,000
11,000
Maintenance of Publie Cemetery,
2,500
2,500
Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries,......
2,500
2,500
Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds,
4,000
4,000
Dredging Foreshores,
12,000
12,000
Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
22,000
22,000
Stores Depreciation,
100
100
Boundary Stones,...
1,500
5,000
(5)
Survey of Colony,
3,000
5,000 (6)
WATER WORKS.
Maintenance of City and Hill District,......
190,000
210,000
(7)
Maintenance of Shaukiwan,
1,200
1,200
Maintenance of Aberdeen,
1,000
1,000
Water Account, (Meters, &c.),
18,000
22,000
(8)
Total Hongkong,.....
Carried forward,..
(1)Increased number of buildings.
() Increased cost of materials and labour, (3) Increased mileage.
Extensions of lighting in 1923.
699,300
835,800
699,300
835,800
(6) Considered necessary.
(5) Increased number of land sales.
(7) Increased consumption and more pumping required,
(8) Greater number of meters.
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