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SEPTEMBER 13TH, 1922
PUBLIC WORKS IN HONGKONG.
200,700.60.
Argyll Street between. Nathan Road L.W.LO.S.T, of 18 feet 10 inches. The contract was awarded to Messra, Sang And Ho Mun Tin was widened to the Lee & Co., whose tender amounted to full width on the North side of Nullah. $104,014.05. The contract was signed on kerbed and channeled and surfacial with SOME OF THE WORK IN HAND the 30th October, 1921, the time allowed ordinary macadam and tar painter.
The estimates for the year 1021 were for completion being 10 months.
Of 80 reinforced concrete piles varying 10,000 unit expenditure Miring the year We take the following from the Rangoon
The Report of the Director of Public] Gazette-
Works (the Hon. Mr. T. L Perkins, in length from 60 feet to 68 feet required
NEW TERRITORY BOANS, Carrigosa, August 25th.
Cumming rescued A. M. 1. C, E, AR. I. B. A.), for the for this pier, and which will be toulded at the Government Quarry, Tsut Tex
(n.) Tai Pu Road,-Widening and im- the avintors Captains Macmillan and year 1921 occupies 93 printed octare bad been made by the end of Matins from their seaplane at five yes- terding evening. Their machim had ever pages and the appendices over an- other pages, making 113 in all tarned and was adrift and the aviators bad keep resting on flosts since Tuesday The Report seals with zo fewer than Sos night. The machine was not brought innbjrets. We give below a few particulars today and a party has gone out to search from the report relating to undertakings for it. The aviators have been taken to
Lieut.-Commander
hospital. They are unable to walk owing with which the general public are perhaps to fatigne and swollen feet duy to exist acquainted pestire. They have suffered especially trop the effects of the sun.
THE BULL ROADS,
the year. The old wooden wharf had proving road between Shatin aint Tai - also been removed and satisfactory pre-This work was completed in Mas, th (b) Tai Po Road-Widening and im proving road between Ard and bih mile- Friss mask with the dredging and-clear-cost being 87, 407.84. of reinforced conereté stanchions,
stones.The improvements to this ront for the foundations of the first row The construction of the roof and facils were completed. The surfacing to the to this pier will form a separate con- whole of this section was treated with
asphaltum. Expenditure 835-128,22
tract.
The total estimates are $127,800,-
(e) Memling and tarpainting hilly hortions of Lai Chi Kok, Charle Peak and Tai Po Rand-Sections of the Cousta! Road between Lai Chi Kok and Castle
were
„„PRATA" EAST RECLAMATION,, The section: to Wungnolchong Gap of CALCUTTA, August with. Captains Macallan and Malins are re the road from Bowan Houl to Contribution by Guerrament towards Peak, for a distance of 7 miles, and the portal to be progressing satisfactorily at Water Bay was completed at a cost of Land for Reclamation. As mentioned in section of the Taipa Road betweg 133-35
-surfaend with "ordinary, Chittagong, They are expected to remain $18.251.
The first section of the read from graph 171 of his rear's Reports
those persons entitled to participate in in hospital a wek. Major Blake states)
margins being forthed where and desir that the latest misfortune entails abandon Taitam, Gap to. Shek O
tions laid down by Government at alle Expenditur. m.in.ất. men of the fight but hopes it will be D'Agular was completed as a cost of the scheme accepted it under the condialar tar painted, gener: concrete The second mils was prasmeing held on the 4th May, 19 AL 47) Motulling and mering Taipo-. possible to make another attempt next] 838,600,00
He hopes to return to England tically completed by the end of last year Ordinance (No. 17 of 1951) authorizing Fling Boid-The whole length of this with Captains Macmillan and Maline in land atraet e the third mile was abone a foreight.
year.
M.FA.
i
.
and
Cape
$0.046
Ex-
were
et. The expenditure in this read to the the Government to carry out the works
121, and a contract was awarded, toment eneste margins fing formed where upd desinalde. Exprmaliture, Another message says: The asiators end of the year had been g36.71. The was Introduced on the 9th September ad as acadamian and tarpainted, Captains Macmillan and Maling, were total estimates for the work are not given. Messrs, Sang Le & C, whose tesider The total estimates for the road 20ft.
(Improvements to Coasta! Regul na laded at Chittagong this morning from the steam launch and were taken to husaide skirting the narth side of the Hills amounted to $2,761,899.70 for the or
removal of Morrison Hill; construction refuse tractors, The Coastal Road, Froth pital suffering from exposure. They were from Wanebai Gap to Magazine Gap are struction of Sea and Quay Walls the far as Lai Chi Kok tu hit it for a-too el from their sealdane at five o'clock given as $76,000. The expenditure to the of two re-inforest concrete public piers, the jauction of Taipe Road Lai Chi yesterday evening. The munching had 2nd of the year had been $64,789,88,
was adrift and the For extending the ft. rond from feet 4 inenes wide by two foot merturned" and arsitors, had been taking refuge in the Magazine Cap to the south end of Cham- inches long and the other T-header 1 ok, was macadamized and tarpaisted
10 feet long the construction of a ring formed where found desirable. Hoats since Tuesday night. The machine, brain Road and thence to Victoria Gap foes inches and 41 ft 2 inches wide by throughout, cement concrete pargius he
part of the project to was not brought in today and a party to form
FURTHER RECLAMATION- AT long providing a depth of 15 feet 2 inches had gone our to search for it. Thavia provide access to the Peak district fuse-boat pier 63 feet wide by a feet penditure, $14,945-49,
muxtor} The Kinal estimates
SHAMSITUIPO. alongside at W.LO.ST. together with tars are unable to walk owing to fatigue by
the end of the year
Whilst satisfactory progress was maile Fatol wwplex fost la to exposure. Thes | Shuten. By (suffered espndails from the effects of the the expenditure hail heen $7,6072.18 retus- storage shel 12 feet 6 inches wide Starting at Magazine Gap, the road by feet long: the construction of Sewor follows the line of Craignin Road until and Stormwater Drainage Works on the turned throughout the year with the work Unrevose, August Bath, Captails Maquillan and Malins, who Craigan West is reached, thener von Erclamation area and including large of depesiting pell-watt ruhile for the sea. re Kuk foothills and the manufacture ĐỀ ate in Chicagong Railway Cottage Hess touring the hillside below Craigmin Road in storinwater eulverty from the Gradu nallah walls foundatis, the de pital, guld an Associated Press representadadoun Gough Hill, passing at the Sand cacheure at Happy Valley to the positing of filling material from Lai Chi foe they landed about five miles east of rear of Stewart Terrae, Teak Church, new sea front; the construction Lakhidia Char, two hours and fifty and Caverment Villas with a gradient taining walls and misellaneous works inerent acrete blocks for the foundation minutes after they had left Calcutta. Poft in 10. then passes unter Mount connection with the developinent of Mur of the sea-wall, the deprisiting of Siling Taopo"Road was somewhat "disappoint They examined the engine, started it and Kadette Read, and attains its highest risen Hill areas and Temporary and Mis-material from the main cutting above. From The contract documents were signed on ing. As this catung was found to con- paxied to Fakhidia Char. Leaving there elevation of 1350 Tver above Ordnance Planers Contingent Works.. DG Torsday at noon they were fereed to Datum, near the teak Garden. Jal tenty minutes Bar in Sandip this point it is continued to Victorin the 20th Det, and notice was given on the tain solid rock and such a large crop of Chaunei, fifteen to eighteen miles West of Gap with grades of 1 in. 17 and 1 ju 45, 11st November to commence the works, the boulders as to make it unworkable for the Chittagong. They were in the machine na'y aking up the system of motor, contract time for completion being six amount of filling "aterial required for with it engine runing badly swing roads plated for the Western portion years. From then to the close of the year this reclamation, arrangements preliably to water in the petrol. They the Cuy. The total length of this rant operations were confined to the erretion being made at the end of the year to From Mazozige Gap -Vietoria, Gap is of offers for the Asistant Engineers and obtain the balk of the filling from ' Overseers, workshops and coche quarters, additional cutting at Mong Kok, East of then tied to asi 1 Chittagong tes
construction of the transport track along Taipo Road,
Of the main igens of work, the rubble owing to the string tide the petrol gave out and they drifted until the machine WIDENING THE ROAD THROUGH Bowrington Canal and the construction QUARRY BAY, turned upside down at about 9p.blo Tuesday. They were adrift without food or water until picked up by Lieut.-Com- This work was undertaken in improve only reate of communication which mander Cumming at 5 pm on Thursday.its with the castore purtion of the ter The elements were against thema,
land of Hongkong. which includes the waves bent by them for three days and important and Bourishing grump aights. Their feet were swollen and their villages known as Shaukiwan arms nchi The machine is useless and farms an essential pan of the road round is now adritt at sea. A tag has gone at the Island, As early as 1912 the arces
This dock has ern designed to provide frani Chittagong to salve the machine.sity for this work became apparent, and The aviators are now trying to get another negotiations were begun with Mesars. Chinese Engineering Association, Ltd., machine from India and circumstances Butterfield & Swire for the surrender of who are associated with Messrs. W. S. suitable and permanent accommodation may compel them to return to Calcutta.
ertain areas and houses to enable the Bailey & Co., Ltd., for the construction for the water boats supplying the ship This srvice is at present, and has for They are, however, awaiting instructions project to be carried out, int it was only of a grah dredger required for dredging ping with water. from London. They had subsisted since in September, 1920, that an agreement trenches for the sea wall and stormwater
drain foundations. Their tender amounted some years past, been carried on in a tem Tuesday on water and two chapaties and with them was reachrt.
The widening
opposite to $76,000; the contract documents were porary manner at the West of X.K,M.L. though in extreme exhaustion they are
1 which signed on the 24th October and notice No. 9 Lai Chi Kok, but the rapid deve- quite cheerful.
Quarry Bay Inland Lot No. opposite the rond, will have a width of was given on the 1st November to com-lopment of this district and the increas 100 feet, narrowing to 55 feet as it enters mence the work, the contract time foring demands of the shipping has render- ed the provision nt a dock equipped with CALCUTTA, August 30th.'
the Village of Quarry Bay, and further completion being six months.
The revised estimate of cost of the an efficient ad up-to-date suply instal Captain Macmillan and Captain Malus reluced to fest and 60 feet, where?
It was, therefore, decided to utilize the arrived here this morning from Chista- the rd is carried through a deep cut- Praya East Reclamation Scheme (apartlation a matter of mygency, goug by the British-India Company's ting of 40 feet: it then joins the existing from premia) to be borne by those per- tenner hakiling, They looked unex-road below Dan No. 3 at level of sons entitled to participate including the outer portion of a large nullah which Governsent. is $3,744,219; the original will be required for the discharge of the the well considering pretuilly
ex feet. melés above the present level. perise they have gone through and are! The real will be 15 feet. above Orda estimate of cost which appeared in para waters of the valley, East of Lai Chi Kok is situated, as a Dock for the waterboats, able to walk with difficulty, but are stillance atun at the Eastern entrance of graph 171 of last year's Report was in which the existing Kowloon Reservoir. suffering from the effects of their privathe Village, and 20-leet opposite the pre-$3.355,000.
The revised estimate of cost to be thus causing the least possible amount tions, especially from exposure to the sent gate of the Refinery. The level at sun and from the bites they received while the deep cutting will be 53 fort above borne by Government, including its re-b interference with the development of taking refuge on the floats of the sea-Ordnance Datum und the portion of thevised estimated contribution of 8683,813 the ileclamation Scheme which will ulti plane caused by what one of the aviaters road from the Refinery gate to the cutting to the General Fund. Hoad Improvements mately extend from Lai Chi Kok to described as a sort of sen snake. They will have a gradient of 1 in 22 nod from at Arsenal Street and East Point, Dev Shamshuigo were in desperate straits when picked up then it joins the existing road with alopment of Morrisson Hill Area, resump- as the floats were by that time quite un-flat grade.
EXPERIENCES DESCRIBED.
The
ConmenceS
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of Guide-pip: Stagings on the line of mound foundation of the sen-wall had been completed, 5 cement concrete founda- the Sea Wall..
The contractors placed orders for fourtion blocks manufactured, and a total of locomotives, the mile of track (35 1h 316,971 cubic yards of 6lling material, de Total estimates, $730,000; expenditurs rafts), two miles of track (3 lbs, rails), posited by the end of the year. of one mile of track (12 lbs, rails), fifty
It als Decauville Wagons and wheris, axles, and to December 18, 1921, $107,603.58.
axle boxes for one hundred 31 cubic yard side-tipping wagons.
A contract was awarded to the Anglo-1
WATER BOAT DOCK AT LAICHIKOK.
The works include the construction of
tions of properties involved, and the con-a dock and water-cushion 000 feet long. struction of large twin-storm-water cul- by 100 feet wide providing a depth of verts from the Grand Stand-enclosure at 12 feat of water at L.W.LOST.,
reinforced concrete bridge to feet long. Happy Valley to the existing sea front, nullah 320 feet long by 42 feet wide, a The revised total estimate of cost-of-the-over-the-nullah and oh which attendants' is 82.185,111, scheme is therefore, $5,212,567...
KOWLOON ROADS.
quarters will be erected, the provision of a regular system of supply pipes and. meters along each side of the dock and miscellaneous contingent worka.
senworthy and would not have remained. The formation of this road involves the above water for another night. Captain removal of over 50.000 cubic yards of Malins mentioned that on the morning earth and 30,000 cubic yards of rack, be- of the 24th, the day on which they were sides the construction of retaining walls In connection with rescued a sailing vessel passed within over 20 feet high half a mil of them and although the this work, it was fund expedient to men on board saw them they refused to widen the existing 12 foot nullah, which come to their rescue and continued onifiows alongside the Refinery; to 24 feet
Kowloon City to Mongkokisui-Section
Owing to pressure of "other work, it their course, Their seaplane has been and to divert about 500 leet of it on the
was not found posside to complete the given up for lost and the only relic of it South side of the read, involving the Kowloon City to East Side of Railway was ap- a16 feet culvert under Embankment. This Section remailing with the aviators is their dis. construction of
the road tress flag which was made out of a red
year. Considerable delay was caused by Contract plans and documents for the from the hilge pump to which strip of In connection with this undertaking, proaching completion at the end of the Recessary surveys and the preparation of Tenders for these works were received covering of the tail Boat was attached. 155,000 sq. ft. of foreshore opposite the encountering of bed rock in large construcion of the dock, nullab and re Both aviators are in very good spirits and Quarry Bay Inland Lot No. 4 will be re-quantities which necessitated heavy blast-inforced concrete bridge, until December. hope to make another attempt at a world Butterfield & Swire on completion in
Section IL-West of Railway Embark on the 30th December, but the Contract flight next year, when Captain. Macmillan remarked they will have the benefit of this consideration of the areas and housesment to Shanghai Street, Mongkoktea could not be awarded before the close of
nherbed by the road. A contract for Good progress was made on this Section. the year. year's experience. They would in fact this work was let to the Tung Shing Firm The Bullah work involved entailed heavy. like to continue this year's flight and! expressed regret, that it was impossible in August, and at the end of the year, piling under certain portions of the
good progress has been made with the foundations to walls and invert.
The expenditure to December 31st, 121, owing to the fact that another weaplin various items of work, cannot be obtained in India. They are
The total estimates are 2300,000,000.had been $121,056.07. staying in Calcutta until they have mad The expenditure to December 31st, 1921,
And been 833,407,14. arrangements to reture to England.
SWIMMING THE CHANNEL.
claimed and handed over
to Messrs.
RECONSTRUCTION OF QUEEN'S STATUE WHARF.
ing.
(.) Extending Coronation Road north wards through hill (formerly K.F.L. 11.) Fair progress was made during the year: The expenditure to December 31st, 1921 had been 817,396.13..
(c) Road to China Light and Power Company's new station.
to
The eighteen Governments interested in Austrian reparations have decided suspend their liens for twenty years and a loan, pledging the Customs have Austria free to go to the market to duties or salt monopoly for what they' are worth.
salr
Bo`` restful
The question of the best means of pro-
FIEUZAL GLASSES. The total estimates, for this work were Fifty-eight swimmers of all nation-viding facilities opposite Statue Square alities, including 10 women, were train for landing from, or embarking -00, ing at the beginning of the worth of sunches, and small craft generally, was $50,000 and expenditure to December Out of doors there is nothing August to swim the Channel. Miche, referred to Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, 3151, 1921, $46,337.91.
(4) Improvements to existing main and comfortable for the eyes as the light Pouilley and Madame Sion, all Freuch, C.M.G., during his visit to the Colony were at Cape Grisnez, awaiting favour in connection, with the Improvement and roads. to fit them for light motor-lorry reflected from green fields and trees, the able conditions, while the American Development of Hongkong Harbour in traffic up to 3 tons. The Kowloon City absorption of the ultra-violet and orange. champion, Toth Richards, his com-November, 1990. Schemes of piers and Road from W. S. Bailey & Co.'s works
patriot Pattison and the English swim-wharves were submitted for his conside to the bridge near the Hill of the rays by the chlorophyll of the leaves, mere, Taylor and the Misses Gleitze, ration Ho recommended that the or- King of the Sung" was widened to give henes the introduction of Visuza! Glass Hawko, Hine, and Perkins, were all at iginal proposal to construct, pier at a minimum width of 20 feet, the carriage yellowish green in calour, which is pro Dover ready to take the water at the first right angles to the seawall should be way being regraded and earfaced with daced in several shades, and lenses made
adhered to. The question was further ordinary macadam and tar painted, opportunity.
Two further unsuccessful attempts have considered by the Public Works Com- From the latter point, it was diverted of this may be worn as a protection by been made by aspirants for Channel, mitice who, in July, recommended the on the new aligament to connect with the over-sensitive eyes where it is desirable" honours on August 4-1 The Frenchman, construction of the pier as originally Mongkoktsui-Kowloon City Road, and it to tone down, excessive light and glare. was formed-taita ultimate width of 60 Visural fensee of say prescription in the season half-way after being nine
Michel, concluded his second attempt of designed.
Thereafter, contract drawings and docu-feet, of which, however, only 20 feet was either regular or Torio forms are many
hours in the water. The Lordon typist, ments were prepared for the construction surfaced.
Salisbury Road between Nathan and Iactured by the Hongkong Optical Ca.. Miss Gleitze, battled for six miles of a reinforced concrete pier 160 feet against atrocious seas and strained as inches by 41 feet 4 inches and approach Chatham Roads was widered to conform successors to Clark & Co., Manufacturing shoulder. Both intend to try again. The 112 feet by 25 feet providing accom to the approved Laying out Scheme, Frenchman Poilley gave up after being modation for four launches lying along kerbed, channeled and surfaced with and Refracting Opticians, 53, Queen's
with a depth of
in the water four hours,
side
water
at ordinary macadam and tar painted
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