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Head 24. PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT AND WATER WORKS.

Head 24.-PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT

Item

1

1 2 3

AND WATER WORKS.

A.—PUBLIC WORKS (GENERAL).

Sub-heads

1:-BUILDINGS.

Maintenance of Buildings

Improvements to Buildings

Approved Estimate, 1940-41.

Estimate, 1941-1942.

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375,000

50,000

345,000 (1)

38,000

Maintenance of Lighthouses

11,000

10,000 (1)

436,000

393,000

2:-COMMUNICATIONS.

1

Roads and Bridges (Maintenance and Improvements)

450,000

615,000 (1)

2

Maintenance of Telephones including all cables

27,700

30,800

3

6

Maintenance of Vehicles

Maintenance of Quarries

Re-instatements on re-entered property

Footpaths, and drain connections

82,000

85,000 (2)

37,500

60,000 (3)

2,000 (4)

25,000 (4)

597,200

817,800

3:-DRAINAGE.

1

Maintenance of Sewers, Nullabs, &c.

65,000

64,000

(5)

65,000

64,000

4:-LIGHTING.

1

Street Lighting

462,000

396,500

(6)

462,000

396,500

5:-TYPHOON & RAINSTORM DAMAGES.

1 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages

40,000

40,000

(1)

40,000

40,000

6:-MISCELLANEOUS.

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Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers

45,000

45,000 (2)

Maintenance of Colonial Cemetery..

2,500

2,000

Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries...

11,250

13,500 (1)

Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds Dredging Foreshores

8,750

7,000

31,250

35,000

(2)

6 Boundary Stones

6,000

6,000 (1)

Survey of Colony

5,000

4.000

8

Maintenance of Vehicles Ferry Piers at Jubilee Street and

Jordan Road

22,500

25,500

(2) (7)

9

Maintenance of Anti-Malarial Works

5,000

4,700

10

Erection and Maintenance of traffic signs

5,000

(8)

11

Erection and Maintenance of street name plates.....

500

(8)

137,250

Total A.-Public Works (General)

B.-WATER WORKS.

1,787,450

148,200

1,859,500

Sub-heads

1:-MAINTENANCE.

10

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5.

Maintenance of Water Works

Head Works and Trunk Supplies

Pumping-Raw Water

Filtration and Treatment

Pumping-Filtered Water

Distribution

Waste Detection and Prevention

Maintenance of Buildings.....

8

Miscellaneous

9

Water Meters, Upkeep and Repairs...

175,000

630,000

(9)

35,000

100.000

100,000

125.000

120,000

35.000

15,000

20,000

90,000 (10)

Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages

10,000 (11)

Total Maintenance Charges

805,000

650,000

2 :-

Renewals and Improvements Fund, Contribution to..........................

440,501

389,115

440,501

389,115

Total B.-Water Works

1,245,501 |

1,039,115

(1) Considered necessary.

(2) Increased cost of materials.

(3) Additional quarry at Hok Un.

(4) Formerly charged to "Deposits Not Available"

accounts.

(5) Increased length of sewers, nullahs and storm

water drains and higher cost of materials. (6) More lighting.

(7) Provision for pay of guards included.

(8) Previously provided under Public Works Extra-

ordinary.

(9) Now subdivided into Items 1 to 8.

(10) Considered sufficient.

(11) New Item, previously included under Public Works (General), Sub-head 5, Typhoon and Rain- storm Damages.