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85

$

$

$

Brought forward,

69,830 930,000

Drainage, actual cost,

1,124

Deduct amount in I,

500

624

Sanitary Fittings,-actual cost,..

6,075

Deduct amount in I,

Water Supply,-actual cost,

Deduct amount in I,

Post Office Fittings,-actual cost,..

Deduct amount in I,

4,000

2,075

815

500

315

2,650

2,500

150

72,994

IV.

Additional Items ordered.

Encasing iron columns and girders with concrete as a

precaution against fire,

Actual cost.

$

14,567

Letter boxes for boxholders,

Ordinary letter boxes, .........

Trucks for letters,

Adapting entrance to basement for mail trucks,

Alteration of steps at entrance to Postal Hall,..

5,638

356

140

250

819

Partition in Postal Hall,......

Fitting up portion of basement for Chinese postal work,...

77

1,897

Gas Supply to mail rooms,...

257

Alterations of lighting to Post Office,

(estimated)

352

Counters in Treasury Hall and Stamp Office,

809

Brass grilles to counter in Treasury,

320

Window in Stamp Office,

250

Cupboards for Treasury,

1,692

Furniture for Sanitary Department,

(estimated) 163

Furniture for Southern District Office,

234

Removal of furniture from old office,

199

Additional glass roofing over Emigration Yard,

1,800

Partitions in Registrar General's Office adjoining Emigra-

tion Yard,

160

Making new openings and closing old openings in walls

of basement and ground floor,

1,086

Granolithic floor of basement,

1,953

Pointing walls of basement,

425

Gas fires in tower rooms (3),

242

Strong room in tower at roof level,

588

Dormer windows in roof,

476

Substitution of iron for timber purlins, &c., in roof,

11,000

Laying flat roofs with "Pabco" roofing,

1,575

Alterations to roof trusses...

175

Alterations to girders,

482

Fire escape ladder,

1,197

Fitting up Chinese Lavatory on 2nd floor,

Sundry alterations to suit requirements of departments

housed in building,....

Sundry alterations to top storey,

287

(estimated) 3,000

(do.)

400

Relaying of channels around building,

Formation of private lane on west side,

Telephones,

Sundry small accounts,

279

99

1,634

962

Insurance against fire during construction,

3,672

59,512

Carried forward,

$1,062,506