FOR THE YEAR 1925.
[Class VI]
79
PUBLIC WORKS.
2.-PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT.
HONGKONG,
BUILDINGS..
Maintenance of Buildings,
Improvements to Buildings,
Maintenance of Lighthouses,
COMMUNICATIONS.
Approved Estimate, 1924.
Estimate, 1925.
$
$
150,000
30.000
6,000
200,000 60,000 6,000
}(1)
Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City, Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City, Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City, Improvements to Roads and Bridges outside City, Maintenance of Telephones including all Cables,.
100,000
110,000
(2)
25,000
25.000
70,000
80,000
(2)
7,000
7,000
8,000
8,000
DRAINAGE.
y Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,...
LIGHTING.
20,000
20,000
10 Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District,
85,000
90,000
11 Electric Lighting, City, Hill District, and Shaukiwan, 12 Extensions of Lighting,
35,000
38,500
(8)
1,500
1,500
MISCELLANEOUS.
3 Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers,
11,000
11,000
14 Maintenance of Public Cemetery,
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
8 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages,
22,000
22,000
19 Stores Depreciation,...
100
100
20 Boundary Stones...
5,000
5,000
21 Survey of Colony,
5,000
5,000
WATER WORKS.
22 Maintenance of City and Hill District,
210,000
230,000
(4)
23 Maintenance of Shaukiwan,
1,200
1,200
24 Maintenance of Aberdeen,
1,000
1,200
25 Maintenance of Repulse Bay,
1,000
26 Water Account, (Meters),
22,000
24,000
(5)
Total Hongkong,.
Carried forward,..
835,800
835,800
967,500
967,500
(1) Increased number of buildings and greater cost of
materials and labour.
(2) Greater road mileage.
(3) Increase in number of lights due to extension.
(4) Increase in consumption aud filtering.
(5) More meters.
(6) More houses coming into occupation.
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