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10. It will be seen on reference to the plan that in this district the positions of 9 lamps require altering, 5 bracket lamps require posts and 6 additional lamps are required. The whole of the burners, 32 in number, to be of "S" Welsback pattern.
11. In Kowloon the same general rules equally apply to the villages of Hung Hom, Yau-Ma-Ti and Monkoktsui. In the more thinly populated district of Tsim-Sha-Tsui and along the road skirting Hung Hom Bay, the lights for the present might be placed about 400 feet apart admitting of extra ones being put in between if it is found necessary to ultimately improve the lighting of this district.
12. On plan* marked "B" I have shewn the necessary alterations in the posi- tions of the existing lamps in Yau-Ma-Ti so as to light the public lanes and the new lamps it is necessary to fix in order to efficiently light the villages of Hung Hom and Yau-Ma-Ti and the road skirting Hung Hom Bay.
In addition to these the system of public lighting will shortly require extension to Monkoktsui where several houses are in course of erection, and I anticipate that some 10 lights will be required by about the end of the year.
13. The number of lamps that require altering in Yau-Ma-Ti is 17 and the number of new ones required is 19.
The number of new lamps required to light the village of Hung Hom and the road skirting Hung Hom Bay is 36, and I submit as an experiment that these alterations and additions should be carried out and that all new lamps and those existing in the village of Yau-Ma-Ti, viz., north of Austin Road, should be fitted. with Welsback burners of the "S" pattern.
14. The estimated cost of the extensions and alterations proposed in the two preceding paragraphs, based on the enclosed correspondencef with the Secretary to the Hongkong and China Gas Co., is as follows:-
Removing and re-erecting 17 lamps, Yau-Ma-Ti,
.$ 141.00
Additional Lamps, Yau-Ma-Ti, 19, ....
741.00
Providing and Fixing Welsback burners 56,
504,00
Extension of Lighting to Hung Hom 36 lamps,
1,728.00
Extension of Lighting to Monkoktsui 10 lamps,
380.00
$3,494.00
say, $3,600.
15. The annual cost of lighting and maintenance is estimated as follows:-
Yau-Ma-Ti,.
Hung Hom,.....
Monkoktsui,
.....56 lamps @ $33=$1,848.00 .....36 lamps @ $38= 1,368.00
330.00
10 lamps @ $33=
$3,546.00
say, $3,600.
In addition to the above, there are in Kowloon, in the Kowloon Point district, 62 lamps which it is not proposed to alter at present, the annual cost of lighting and maintaining these may be put down at $2,200, inaking the total annual cost in respect of lighting Kowloon $5,800.
* Plan not printed.
† Enclosure 1.