171
Miscellaneous fittings for Government House,.......
Covering yard at Water Police Station,. Retaining wall on Chamberlain Road,.............
Altering stables near No. 7 Police Station and construct-
ing Dog Pound,.
Altering Belilios Reformatory for temporary prison, Improving inlet of covered nullah at Happy Valley,.. Steps between Government and Tung Wah Infectious
Hospitals at Kennedy Town,......
Increasing accommodation for public chairs at Victoria
Gap Chair Shelter,....
.$ 576
570
501
410
398
•
393
357
354
Fixing Boundary Stone at Mirs Bay to define the limit
of the New Territory,
351
Alterations for temporary extension of No, 2 Police
Station,
343
Compensation for stoppage of sandalwood mill near
Tsün Wan and for use of Mill Race during water famine, 1902,.............
333
Repairs of capstan, &c, Water Police Basin,.....
321
Materials for telephone line to Dr. HUNTER'S house...................
311
Gas lamp (100 candle-power) at junction of Bowen
and Magazine Gap Roads,
300
Surface channels at Shek Tong Tsui Market,
292
Police Sentry Boxes at the Peak,
283
Removing and re-erecting monument at the Happy
Valley,...
282
The expenditure on the first item included a sum of about $2,000 spent in constructing 3,320 lineal feet of concrete channels in outlying districts.
The quarters for chair coolies at Victoria Gap were completed in April and leased to the licensee of the public chairs for the Hill District. The building is a two-storied one, containing accommodation for 96 coolies, for whom bunks have been fitted up.
A cook-house on the ground floor only was at first constructed but to meet the requirements of the coolies, another storey, accessible from the upper floor of the quarters, was subsequently added. Latrine accommodation is provided in a separate building.
The flagstaff at Waglan Lighthouse is 82 feet in height and is provided with a yard for signalling purposes. The lower mast is of steel and the upper mast and yard of Oregon pine, with stays of steel wire rope and all the requisite fittings and a winch, &c., for lowering the upper mast. It was constructed and erected by the Dock Company.
The retaining wall behind the Tung Wah Infectious Hospital was rendered necessary by the frequent landslips which occurred from the hill where it has been cut away to level the site for the hospital, the ground being of a very treacherous nature. Great trouble was experienced during the progress of the work from repeated landslips which greatly retarded operations and prevented its completion before the close of the year.
The only other item calling for comment is the one for payment of compen- sation for the stoppage of a sandalwood mill in connection with the water famine during the spring of 1902. The delay in settling this matter arose from the death of the owner of the mill and the difficulty of ascertaining to whom the money should be paid, his relatives residing in the interior of China.
26. Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City.-There was an exceptional amount of disturbance of the surfaces of roads throughout the City during the year, due to the construction of the Electric Tramway and the laying of the cables for same; the laying of cables from the Telegraph Company's Office, by way of Garden and Kennedy Roads to Wongneichoug and by way of Garden, Caine and Bonham Roads to Pokfulam Road; the laying of a large gas main between the Gas Com- pany's principal establishment at West Point and their branch at Wanchai; the laying of cables for light and power purposes in the eastern portion of the City; besides numerous other pipes, &c., of minor extent. The widening of Queen's