10.90. The Unit also acted in an advisory capacity to the Construction Division on claims and on Divisional Instructions.
ACCOUNTS SECTION
Treasury Accountant:
T. OWEN, A.C.A.
10.91. The Section is responsible for:
(a) Issuing water accounts.
(b) Ensuring that all relevant accounting instructions are correctly interpreted and applied by the Waterworks Office; and for providing such other accounting and financial services as may be required by the Director of Water Supplies.
(c) The adequacy of the accounting arrangements of the Waterworks Office with regard to both security and the records maintained.
(d) Proposing any amendments to the systems of accounts which are considered desirable to meet changes in the Waterworks Office's functions or financial regulations.
(e) Issuing various licences required by the Waterworks Ordinance, e.g. fishing licences and plumbing licences.
(f) Maintaining a register of consumers and licensed plumbers.
10.92. Bills were issued for a total of 42,308 million gallons of fresh water and the revenue collected amounted to $89.3 million. The charge for water supplied to domestic and trade premises is $2 per thousand gallons (fixed in 1965) against a current estimated cost of production of about $4.00.
10.93. Revenue for sales of salt water totalled $980,000 and as this resulted in a loss on the salt water operations a review of the price and method of estimating salt water consumption was put in hand.
10.94. The number of accounts for water consumed rose from 280,000 last year to 350,000 this year. This rapid increase has led to some delay in the issuing of bills despite overtime working. To try to overcome these delays a new system of issuing bills by meter readers was planned. There were also problems in reconciling the chargeable water control accounts, which were aggravated by the number of accounts and the present semi-manual system of accounting.
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10.90. The Unit also acted in an advisory capacity to the Construc- tion Division on claims and on Divisional Instructions.
ACCOUNTS SECTION
Treasury Accountant:
T. OWEN, A.C.A.
10.91. The Section is responsible for:
(a) Issuing water accounts.
(b) Ensuring that all relevant accounting instructions are correctly interpreted and applied by the Waterworks Office; and for pro- viding such other accounting and financial services as may be required by the Director of Water Supplies.
(c) The adequacy of the accounting arrangements of the Waterworks Office with regard to both security and the records maintained. (d) Proposing any amendments to the systems of accounts which are considered desirable to meet changes in the Waterworks Office's functions or financial regulations.
(e) Issuing various licences required by the Waterworks Ordinance,
e.g. fishing licences and plumbing licences.
(ƒ) Maintaining a register of consumers and licensed plumbers.
10.92. Bills were issued for a total of 42,308 million gallons of fresh water and the revenue collected amounted to $89.3 million. The charge for water supplied to domestic and trade premises is $2 per thousand gallons (fixed in 1965) against a current estimated cost of production of about $4.00.
10.93. Revenue for sales of salt water totalled $980,000 and as this resulted in a loss on the salt water operations a review of the price and method of estimating salt water consumption was put in hand.
10.94. The number of accounts for water consumed rose from 280,000 last year to 350,000 this year. This rapid increase has led to some delay in the issuing of bills despite overtime working. To try to overcome these delays a new system of issuing bills by meter readers was planned. There were also problems in reconciling the chargeable water control accounts, which were aggravated by the number of accounts and the present semi-manual system of accounting.
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