380
Department amounting
Annun.
to £429.10 per
With the Department as at present constituted, I shall be fully equal to execute
all the demands that can be made upon it,
unless
any
works are
proposed at
a distance from Victoria; if such
were to be undertaken, the only addition would be
Houses, but if no further Civil Works in the Colony
are decided upon, a reduction
may be effected in the Departments.
In the district comprising the Town of Victoria there are still several works which I think it would be highly desirable to have effected, such as the completion of the work of surface drainage by stone channels, the protection of the sides of some of the Roads and streets, either with parapet walls, raised foot-paths, or such other means as for each particular place would be found most applicable; widening the road round the Wongueichung Valley and the formation of a new carriage-road from Albany Godowns to the Wongueichung Valley;
I formerly advocated the construction of this Road when land was much sought after, and estimated the probable revenue that would be derivable from the sale of the adjoining ground; at the present time it is not likely much of that ground, if any, would be purchased, and in a pecuniary sense Government would not be directly benefited,
but it would be a healthy and pleasant road for the use of inhabitants of the whole Town, for in summer both the Queen's Road and the Wongueichung Valley are too confined and hot, and but little benefit is derived from exercise therein; another carriage road, not so expensive as this one, might be made round the Suttumpur Valley or Causeway Bay; these two roads, with the