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Telephones.

In this connection the small sum of $400 is estimated to be required to complete the work.

Appended to this Report is a statement showing the expenditure that was incurred in 1926 and the anticipated amount that will be required to complete the reparation work in 1927, making a grand total of $988,015.

Public Works Department,

Hong Kong.

HAROLD THOMAS CREASY,

Director of Public Works.

1926.

NATURE OF WORK.

1927. Anticipated Expenditure

Expenditure.

from the Special Vote.

Buildings.

In Hong Kong Island.

Quarters, Police Stations, Offices, Schools, &c.

Repairs to ...

Building Site (No. 8 Police Station) Repairs to

53,485

8,500

1,373

Cemeteries.

Colonial and Chinese Areas. Reconditioning of...

27,101

Communications.

Roads.

Repairs, reinstatement, &c.

272,061

27,900

Telephones.

Lines, cable, electrical fittings, &c. Repairs to

600

Drainage.

Sewers and Nullahs. Removal of boulders, re-

pairs, and reconstruction of nullah walls, &c....

137,586

150,000

Lighting.

Street Gas Lamp. Reconditioning of

1,554

Miscellaneous.

Removal of the huge boulder from the Government Waterworks Pumping Station at Pokfulam Road, and of several others in Shaukiwan Village

8,000

Piers.

Repairs to four

2,339

Carried forward

$

496,099

194,400