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gard Road was completed in 1920, and, with Harlech Road, encircles Victoria Peak. om there a road leads down to the West end of the City. Another road in a directly bosite direction leads from Victoria Gap to Magazine Gap, where a second hill age of foreign residences has been formed on the southern side of the hills at an vation of about 900 feet above the sea. There is also a path from Victoria Gap down Pokfolum and Aberdeen, and at the side of this, about half a mile from the Gap, a all granite cross has been erected. This bears the inscription :-"W. W. H., 1869
marks the scene of a brutal murder there by a Chinese footpad, the victim being . Holworthy, an officer of the Ordnance Department, whom he felled with a mboo and robbed, inflicting fatal injuries. The Peak roads are lighted by incandescent s lamps.
A second road to the Peak district was completed in 1922. Starting from rrison Hill Road, it runs behind the Cemetery at Happy Valley and traverses Bare face of the hills to Wanchai Gap and Magazine Gap. From Wanchai Gap, also, it As been continued, along the southern face of the hills, to the Pcak. It has an easy adient and was constructed for motor traffic. A branch of it runs in an opposite rection to Wong-nai-Chung Gap. Houses are springing up rapidly along the road, ad adjacent to it, on a site granted by the Government, a model Nursing Home is to erected in the near future from funds partly subscribed by the public for a War emorial, partly contributed by the Government, and partly obtained from the surplus cumulated on the investment of the late Granville Sharp's bequest, referred to above. Magazine Gap is also approached from the lower levels by an excellent and ell-graded road, commencing on the Bowen Road.
THE RURAL DISTRICTS
There are several villages on the island, the largest of which is Shau-ki Wan, situate a bay in the Ly-ee-mùn Pass, a great resort of Chinese fishing craft. Aberdeen, known the Chinese as Shek-pai-wan, on the south of the island, possesses a well sheltered ttle harbour, also much frequented by fishing craft. Two large docks of the Longkong and Whampoa Dock Company are situated there. Pokfolum, on the bad to Aberdeen, about four miles from Victoria, was formerly a place of desort for European residents in the hot weather, and some elegant bunga- DWS were erected in pleasant and picturesque situations, commanding fine sea fiews and cool breezes, but for some years after the development of the Peak district Pokfulum remained comparatively neglected until recently, when the difficulty of find- ng additional sites on the higher levels has again brought it into notice. The sanitorium of the French Missions is located at Pokfulum, and is a fine building with an elegant Chapel attached. The Dairy Farm is also situated there. Some distance beyond Aberdeen are two excellent bathing beaches known as Deep Water Bay (where there is 9-hole golf-course and club-house) and Repulse Bay (where a popular hotel has been erected by the Hongkong-Shanghai Hotels Co., Ltd.). Wong-nai-chung is snugly located at the head of the valley of that name and is the most accessible of all the villages from Victoria. A motor-road has been constructed from the Morrison Hill district via Wanchai Gap to Wong-nai-chung Gap and to the Peak, and a tramway is promised for the purpose of rendering building sites in the Mt. Cameron district accessible to people of moderate means. Stanley, situated in a small bay on the south-east of the island, was once the site of a military station, but the barrack buildings have been pulled down, and the village is now stationary. A cemetery on the point contains numerous graves of British officers and soldiers. One of the places most in favour with pedestrians who are not afraid of a good long tramp is the little village of Tytam Tuk, nestling among trees at the mouth of the stream of the same name, which here enters Tytam Bay, the most extensive inlet on the southern coast. There is an excellent motor road round the Island by way of Pokfolum, Aberdeen, Stanley, Tytam and Shaukiwan.
This was commended as a memorial of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and completed at the end of 1919. Saiwan is a small village picturesquely situated in Saiwan Bay, just outside the Ly-ee-mùn Pass, and is much frequented by picnic parties. In the belief that it was a healthy locality, small barracks were erected there early in the forties, but the experi- ment proved most disastrous, for in five weeks out of a detachment of 20 English soldiers five died and three more were removed in a dangerous condition. The buildings were therefore soon abandoned. Shek O is a small but prettily-located village occupy- ing a small valley shut in from the water on the eastern coast, not far from Cape D'Aguilar. There is a scheme in progress for developing this district as a European summer resort by the erection of bungalows and a Country Club has been established, Near here a wireless station has been erected.