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EXPENDITURE ON WATER WORKS FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS.

Statement showing Expenditure on Maintenance of Water Works from 1st January, 1892, to 31st December, 1901, inclusive.

Year.

City and Hill District.

Kowloon.

. Aberdeen.

Shaukiwan.

Totals.

1892,

A

1893,

$ 7,957.17

.....

T

$ 7,957.17

1894,

7,910.94

7,910.94

1895,

10,136.95

10,136.95

1896,

6,565.76

$ 5,788.43

12,354.19

1897,

7,878.93

5,880.74

$1,007.54

$1,088.69

15,855.90

1898,

11,758.13

6,298.58

890.51

968.77

19,915.99

1899,

14,556.41

9,175.11

920.64

1,117.00

25,769.16

1900,

20,496.50

11,995.03

578.96

1,186.45

34,256.94

1901,

20,864.38

17,766.53

189.40

78.48

38,898.79

Totals,

***

$108,125.17

$56,904.42

$3,587.05

$4,439.39

$173,056.03

4th January, 1902.

Year.

Appendix No. 6.

W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works.

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS.

Statement of Periods of Intermittent Supply from and including 1896.

Period.

1896,

1st January to 29th March,

1st to 14th June,

1897,

1898,

1899,

1st April to 10th May,

26th May to 7th June,

1900,

1st to 13th May,

1901,

Full supply maintained during the Spring.

Intermittent

supply introduced on 11th November in consequence of rainfall amounting to only 54.18 inches to end of Octo- ber,

Number of Days.

Rainfall of

Preceding Year.

103

45.84

72-78

100-03

53

57.02

13

72-70

73-71

Note.-The rainfall of the preceding year is given opposite each year, as it is only in exceptional cases, such as the present, that the intermittent supply is introduced before Spring, and its introduction is therefore due as a rule to deficiency in the preceding year's rainfall.

W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works.

21st December, 1901.