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Head 32.-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Approved Estimate, 1936.
Estimate, 1937.
Head 32.-PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Sub-heads :-—-
1 Personal Emoluments
$
1,832,672
€
2,272,491
Other Charges.
2 City Hall Library......
2,300
3 Conveyance Allowances
38.000
4 Drawing Materials and Mounting Plans
9,000
2,300 40,000 (1)
9,000
5 Electric Fans and Light
30,000
11,000 (2)
6 Incidental Expeuses...
6,500
6,800 (3)
7 Lifts Maintenance, Government Buildings
5,500
6,000
8 Maintenance and Supply of Furniture
35,000
30,000 (5)
9 Rent of Public Telephones
1.122
10 Surveying Instruments and Contingencies 11 Technical Library
3,000
2,500
(5)
300
200
(5)
12 Transport and Travelling Expenses
11,000
10,000
(3)
13 Uniforms
3,600
3,500
(5)
14 Upkeep of Government Garage Plant
800
800
15 Upkeep of Harbour Surveying Plant
4,000
3,000
(5)
16 Upkeep and running expenses of Motor Lorries and Cars
28,000
23,000 (5)
17 Upkeep of Motor and Steam Rollers...
12.500
6,000
(5)
18 Upkeep of Quarry Plants
19,000
16,000
(5)
19 Upkeep of Triangulation Monuments
200
200
Radio Telegraph Branch.
20 Incidental Expenses
1,000
1.000
21 Repairs, Stores and Current
68,000
60,000
(5)
22 Transport
3,500
3,000
(5)
Total Other Charges
281,200
235,422
Special Expenditure.
23 Electrical Motors....
700
900 (7)
24 Two Cars
8,000
(8)
25 Spindle Moulding Machine.....
1,700
(9)
26 Diesel Electric Generating Set
36,000
(10)
27 Diesel Engine for Lighting Set: Tytam Tuk
1.800
(11)
28 Two Megger Insulation Testing Machines
2,000 (12)
29 One W/T Receiver
1,920
(13)
30 Radio Diffusion Instrument
5,000 (14)
31 Diver's Motor Boat......
5,000 (15)
32 WIT Press Reception Apparatus
12,500 (14)
33 Two Microphones...
2,000 (14)
One Compressor for spraying plants
700
(16)
Light Diesel Roller, 2 tons
5,000
Two 2 ton Lorries.....
6,000
Three Morse Instruments
1,224
(17)
Office equipment
1,200
Short wave Telephone transmitter
72,000
Combined planing Machine
2,500
89,324
2,203,196
76,820
2,584,733
Total Special Expenditure
Total Public Works Department.
(1) Allowances revised.
(2) Vote split up departmentally.
(3) Includes maintenance of typewriters previously
provided under Miscellaneous Services.
(4) Extra lifts (Queen Mary Hospital).
(5) Considered sufficient.
(6) Previously provided under Miscellaneous Services.
(7) 1936 Estimate insufficient owing to lower rate of exchange. Further sum required for the balance. (8) For replacement of old cars. 49) For Furniture Workshop.
(10) Required in the event of failure of supply at Cape
D'Aguilar W/T Station.
(11) Replacement.
(12) One for Air Service and one for broadcasting
services.
(13) Replacement of one local made receiver at Water
Police Station by a Marconi receiver.
(14) Considered necessary.
(15) To replace existing diver's barge considered
unsuitable.
(16) Not required. (17) Non-recurrent
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