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Head 30.-PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT

Approved Estimate, 1928.

Estimate, 1929.

PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT,-Continued.

Details of the foregoing,-Continued.

NEW TERRITORIES.

ITEMS.

22:-BUILDINGS.

1

Maintenance of Buildings

25,000

20,000

(1)

2

Improvements to Buildings

10,000

5,000

3

Maintenance of Furniture

1,500

(1)

36,500

25,000

23:-COMMUNICATIONS.

Maintenance of Roads and Bridges

64,000

70,000

(2)

2

Improvements to Roads and Bridges

1,000

2,000

(3)

3.

Maintenance of Telephones

6,500

4,000

71,500

76,000

24:-DRAINAGE.

I

Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,

25: TYPHOON & RAINSTORM DAMAGES.

1

Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages

500

40,000

26:-WATER WORKS.

1

Maintenance of Fanling Waterworks

700

2

Maintenance of Taipo Waterworks

700

ين

3

Water Account, (Meters, &c.)

600

500

500

500

40,000

40,000

40,000

700

700

600

27:-MISCELLANEOUS.

2,000

2,000

1

Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries

100

100

2

Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers

2,500

2,500

2,600

2,600

Total New Territories

(1) Transferred to Public Works Department, Other Charges. (2) Considered necessary for resurfacing.

153,100

146,100

(3) Previous provision insufficient.