The following major bridges were scraped and tarred:-
Bridge No. 2 Gascoigne Road
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Waterloo Road
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Argyle Street
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Prince Edward Road
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Boundary Street
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Taipo Kau
64. Embankment. 4,747 cubic yards of earth were taken from the cutting behind the platform at Yaumati Station to strengthen the railway embankment at Fanling and Wo Hop Shek. By the removal of this earth, the platform of the former station was widened by 30 feet.
65. Land. A Chinese Government organization dealing mainly in tung oil and known as the China Vegetable Oil Corporation, which had occupied a portion of land at Hung Hom Reclamation since prewar days, but after reoccupation had asked for extensions, was requested to remove its property and cleared the site on 20.5.50 in order to make room for the erection of a police camp, approximately 1,000' x 110' in area.
The following areas of railway land at Kowloon and Hung Hom were leased for various purposes:
435,858 s.f. for military purposes-Rental $1.00 per annum.
6,000 s.f. for Bible Auditorium
10,779 s.f. for motor car service
4,282 s.f. for storage purpose
3,000 s.f. for a film-titling studio
700 s.f. for distributing newspapers and teleprinting
140 s.f. for signwriting advertising boards.
Approximately 231,500 s.f. of railway land at Hung Hom were occupied by other Government departments for the following purposes: -
Rice godown
Cemetery depot
No rental
No rental
No rental
Police camp
An agreement was reached whereby a piece of railway land, 41,300 s.f. at Sai Yee Street was surrendered to the Public Works
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