·BCIENTIFIC TOWN PLANNING AÐ KOWLOON During the course of the debate on the cond reading of the supply bill last year Mr Stephen advocated a scheme of @gientific town planning and the Governor Tarthwith appointed a Commuítter to draw up such a scheme. The members of the Committee have worked very hard during the a few months find the results of their labours will be so valuable during the next fifty years that I should like to record their names They are as follows:---
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door will be levelled and in to be used This work will be undertaken as soon as In the Post Office provision has had to as a Repair Shop for all Government the new buildings for the Public Workshe made for increased staff to cope with motor vehicles, including cars, trucks. Dopartment are occupied.
the greatly increased amount of postal lorries, and fire-engines. It is proposed matter which now passes through its also to build a garage to bouse the hands. Eleven additional postmen and various Government CATA in Uso in ten additional bag coalies have therefors Kowloon.. been provided. The time has now come, also, when a second launch is required by the Post Office in order that there may be no delay in the receipt and despatch of maila, and provision has been made accordingly.
After my general remarks ob roads it is unnecessary for me to do more than refer to certain new works under the head of Communications." Sub-head (a) is for a road up the Tai Hang Valley which will open up a number of excellent sites, some of which have already been applied far. Sub-head (o) is for a branch road near Stanley Gap to open up an The Director of Public Works, Chaiaren above what is known as West Bay, tuan of the Committee.
where several large sites have already The Colonial Secretary, Mr. A. G. M. been sold. Fletcher.
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Air. W. L Leask.
Mr. Chow Shou Son,
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Mr. A. F. B. Sif-Netto, with Mr. A. G. W. Tickle and subsequently Mr. 1. M. Xavier as Secretary.
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The extension of the Carriage Shed at Hungham was not proceeded with this rent and a slightly increased sum is inserted for that purpose. Additional room is needed in the Railway workshops. where all the repairs for the Hallway are dealt with and a sum of $80,000 is in- In the Railway Departinent the salary cluded for this extension. The proposed of the Engineer of Way and. Works as new Carpenters' Shop at Hunghom where Miscellaneous" pro- been revised in order to place him on a the bodies of much of our rolling stock The Colonial Treasurer, originally Mr.vidon is made under item 50 for a Port.vel with the Senior Engineers of there made, has been carried forward from C. Mel. Messer, and now Mr. 1. W. Tratable Tür and Asphalt Mixer The road Public Works Department, and an allow system is becoming so extensive that itance of $1,300 per annum has been grant.
The installation of electric power in thei The Chief Engineer, China Command, is impossible to send the material. fored to the Locomotive Superintendent, who workshops is estimated to cost $13,500. Colonel C. W. Davy,
surfacing from the quarry to the remoteris in charge of all repairs and of the This work is necessary owing to the re- parts of the island ao" us to arrive, în a training of chauffeurs for the Government moval of the China Light and Power suitable condition. The portable mixer motor-cars, To assist him it has been Company to their new premises, the dis- will enable the work to be done in an necessary to add a new post of works tance of which from the workshops makes efficient and economical manner. The foreman and to increase the number of used, uneconomical.
the provision of direct current, formerly ferry, piers for vehicular traffic (item 33) fitters and machinists in the Railway suitable for alteranting current are Separate motors The Çëmmittee aas so far been dealing are strongly recommended by the Town workshops. The cleaning of the railway being installed for each machine and there with the Kowloon Peninsula which is Planning Committee. It is proposed to coaches, which has to be performed usually should be a considerable economy in being, mapped out in detail for the future erect one pier in the vicinity of dubilee during the night, has not always been running expenses, requirements of a-věry, large population Street and one at Jordan Road in satisfactory in the past, and it has been One other item deserves separato Provision is being made for rends, rail- Kowloon. The vote will be divided later considered advisable to engage eight more mention, namely the provision of plat- and it is not expected that much work carriage-cleaners for the work. An addiform luggage-barrows, for which a sum ways, ferries, wharves, sewage works, can be done during the year 19 The ticnal post of Traffic Sub-Inspector has a $2,000 has been inserted. slaughterhouses, markets, Government ferries will be designed to carry a large been added and is warranted by consider course area and platforms at Kowloon buildings, offensive trade areas, resi number of passengers in addition tably increased traffic, dential areas, timber yards, coal yards, vehicles, and will be of great assistance
Station are in process of being cement- Allowances have been granted to the pared. and will in future have a smooth recreation grounds, and so on, and the in developing the policy of moving the Traffic Superintendent and Store-Keeper level surface. It is proposed to introduce work when complete will prove a most population from the crowded areas of and to a teacher at Yaumati English barrows, which are being successfully valuable guide for all purposes connected the City of Victoria to more suitable School for work at the Railway Night used in North China, in place of the with the development of the Colony. The residential areas in the Kowloon Penin School, which owes its inception to the more cumbersome method of transport Committee will deal with Hongkong in | sula. The scheme is not sufficiently enthusiasm of Mr. G. A. Walker, "the by pola ilue course.
advanced to make it possible for me to Traffic Superintendent. The School has go into the subject in detail. and already proved very successful and will Honourable Members will have opportun- undoubtedly make for a better under- The Public Works Department shows aities in future of discussing it in con- standing of railway working and increas considerable increase in Establishment nection with the general question of ug efficiency on the part of the Railway Charges. Personal Emoluments having bousing and transport. Items 19, 30, and Staff.
one of these. I stated in the debate on an increase of $77,460. The Secretary of st make provision for certain ratch- State has approved of the Director of waters, which are essential for increas account of
Increases appear in Other Charges on the Supply Bill last year that I originally Public Works receiving the maximuming the water supply of the island. If Bridges and Tunnels, which is due in way, and I still consider that this means the biennial painting of proposed the construction of this tram- salary of the post. This cognition of the Stanley Mound catchwater had been 1923, and for heavy repairs which have of access to the Mount Cameron district the excellent work done by Mr Perkins in operation this year the amount of been found to be necessary in both Staff is cseential. The development of Mount since his appointment will I feel gure beater in Taitam Tuk Reservoir would Quarters and Station Buildings. A large Cameron is provided for in the Estimates, gratifying to Honourable Memberk, have been much greater than it is. The replacement of sleepers is also required and if it should prove desirable to pro- rising main provided for under item 60 as an increased cost of $13,000. A decrease cred with the tramway before the end is to replace with sin. wrought-iron appears in the vote for coal, though the of next year Honourable Members will pipes the present sin.. cast-iron main actual amount has been increased on the be asked to vote the necessary funds, No which is defective at the joints. The old experience of this year from 7,000 to 8,000 plays have been drawn up yet, and the pipes will, however, be quite serviceable tons; the cost for the purpose of these method of working the line has not been elsewhere.
estimates has been taken at 13 a ton s considered. In Kowloon the saly new buildings are compared with is which was the rate the Inspector's quarters at Mataukokadopted last year.
item 69), market at Mongkoktsui motor concher has proved rather more The running of the (item Co), a further addition to the economical than was expected and a r Water Police Station (ite 70), and duction has therefore been made in the small incinerator at Kowloon City (item vote for Oil Fuel 70).
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OTHER IMPORTANT WORKS. There are certain important works for which no provision has been made. The Preposed tramway to Wanchai Gap is
TBE OPIUM PROBLEM.
The improvement of "the barbour, is not appear in the Estimates. It is un- another important matter, which does likely that any definite scheme will be ready, till well on in the year, and the cost involved will probably have to be The programme of Special Expenditure met by a loan. for the Railway g'a somewhat formidable one but is absolutely necessary if the rail-I should like to correct, a misappre way is to continue to be run in an efficient hension which appears to exist regarding manner. The revenue obtained is steadily the requirements of the Opium Monopoly. increasing and during the last five years. In 1912 the allowance to the Opium Farm receipts have gone up from 342,000 to was.000 chests,, which allowance included
604,000. exceptional on account of the stoppage of opium then required for local consump "The early maaths of this year were Monopoly started in 1914 the amount opium for export, When the Government
of steamboat communication with Canton tion was put at 340 chests a year, and during the Seamen's Strike, but the heavy it was hoped gradually to increase the passenger traffic has continued and it has selling price to a prohibitive figure, with been found that the facilities at Kowloon the intention of thus finally putting an Station are becoming insufficient for deal end to the smoking of opium in the condition of the success of this policy
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In accordance with the recommenda "tions of the Committee appointed at this time last year by His Excellency the Governor the organisation of the Crown Lands and Surveys Office has been revised and certain additional posts, have been made. A Chief Survey Clerk has been appointed to be in charge of the records of this sub-department and an additional Clerk of Works has been appointed to the Public Health and Buildings, Ordinance Office. A new sub-department nuned the Resumption Oßes'has "bern'created which will relieve the Public Health and Build- Lider Communications" I would ings Ordinance Office of work in connec draw attention, to sub-head (f). tion with Building Covenants, Valuations new important thoroughfare is one of and Rumptions. It is proposed that the recommendations of the Town Mr. J...W, White, Executive Engineer who Planning Committee It will run fron has had considerable experience of this Gascoigne Road across the East side of work in the Colony, should be in charge King's Park and join the main road from on his return from leave. An assistant Taikoktsei to Kowloon City, opening up -engineer, who is at present in charge of some new building areas and passing this sub-department, will be permanently close to the hospital. The gradient will be an easy one, and many of the small The increase in Public Works Recurrent hills on each side of it will be levelled amounts to.$52,000 due partly to the to the various elevations required. general increase in the cost of mainten Sub-head (g) provides a small sum, ance, and in the case of roads to increased which may have to be increased, foring with the increasing crowds, especially Colony. It was, however, an essential wear and tear in consequence of the fatro-beginning the laying, of the tramway in festival time. duction of heavier traffic and to exten- system, I am unable to deal with this sions of the roads requiring to be main subject at present as the Government extension of the main arrival platform adequately controlled at the source, and It is proposed at present to make an that all supplies of opium should be tained. The vote for Gas Lighting, in proposals have been referred to the at a cost of 84,000, as inconvenience, arises this was a matter entirely outside the Victoria und Kowloon has been consider-Crown Agents and nothing more can be on the arrival in Kowloon of trains control of this Government. In the early ably increased under a new contract with done until a report has been received. the Gas Company which provides for the
Considerable sums have been provided sum of 36,000 has been inserted for the of opium were regularly smuggled exceeding the length of the platform. A days of the monopoly, large quantities installation of improved burners giving under the head Drainage " for provision of turnstiles at the entrance to into the Colony from much better illumination than at present. training the large nullahs required to the platforms for the purpose of break Kingdom, but steps taken at Home the United Under Public Works Extraordinary" carry off storm water through the areas ing up the crowds which assemble in the to stop possession and export result- it will only be necessary to refer to new now Bing levelled and developed for concourse area before departure, and ed works. Item 4 provides for improving | building:
enabling adequate supervision to be made this source of supply.
the complete stoppage of] the accommodation for the Officers in Under the head of Miscellaneous," a by the staff,
In recent years Charge of the Wireless Installation at sum of 820,0289" has been provided for
the Government has been faced with the Cape Aguilar, which has proved inade making recreation grounds in King's proved to be of a most serviceable type, Persian opinm. It is well-known that The locomotives at present in use have problem of keeping out Chinese and quate. Item is for a building in the Park. It is proposed to grant allotments but they are not sufficiently powerful to opium can be freely purchased in China Yamen at Canton to supplement the pre- there to the Kowloon Cricket Club and haul long, and beavily-loaded trains and at a price much below the Hongkong sent quarters. The Governments of the the Club" de Recreio, as the areas at Straits Settlements and the Federated present, vccupied by these clubs are re-employ two engines. It is proposed to are apart the greater is the incentive to in emergencies it has been necessary to price, and the wider these two prices Malay States will share the cost us the quired for other purposes, majority of the Cadet Officers come from In the New Territories it is hoped to of a more powerful type, and provision is where preventive measures, with their. replace these, as they wear out, by engines the smuggler; until a point is reached Malaya. I may remark that the large begin the New Gaol at Ngau Shi Wan, made for the purchase of one of these next attendant ahuses, bring great harm to expenditure required for the new Queen's and to build a new Police Station at year. New boilers are required for Locothe trade and popularity of the port. College under Item 11 will be partially Shatin, Item D requires some explana motives Nos. 1 and 2 which have beeii in It must be remembered that in a place recovered by the sale of a portion of the tion. Advantage is being taken of the service since 1909 and are unserviceable such as this, where thousands of persons site on which the present building stands. development by Company of an area for heavy work until they have been repass daily to and from China, nothing Items 6, 14 and 15 are required in con at Kau Lung Tong, to extend to the road conditioned. Further spares for the vari short of rigorous personal search can be pection with the enlargement and im-northwards to the base of the hills and ous locomotives are necessary and provifinally effective. provement of the slaughter houses and to build a certain number of quarters for sion is made for the purchase of eight sets cattle depot at Kennedy Town, The re- Government Officers of a similar type to of boiler tubes. instatement of the Kennedy Town Police some of the bouses which are to be built Station provided for under Item 18 will on the Company's land. The estimated make it necessary to provide a new Infec cost for each house is comparatively low tions Diseases Hospital for which provi- and with the provision of cheap means of sion has been made under Item 21. No transport this district should prove an site has however, been decided on yet attractive place of residence. for this hospital. The coal storage depot No new roads are contemplated in, the and motor garage (item 193 was recom- New Territories except the roads required mended by the Essential Services Com to develop the Kau Lang Tong area, and mittee: Item 20 provides for the erec&path to Shing Man Valley in connection boiler. of an engine has to be lifted for increase in the monopoly price would not tion of a garage on the row Peak Road, with the survey work, there for the pro-repairs, which should proven remunerative posed impounding reservoir and aque- undertaking: 1 may mention in this connection" that, in view of the greatly ingreazing · demand,--it has been decided not to allow the erection of isolated garages on Crown land except in special circumstances, but to attempt to concen- trate, cazz, whose owners cannot housë
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Provision has also been made for the purchase of five 30-ton covered wagons for purposes of the increasing goods traffic,
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in the eight years of the monopoly consumption has been substantially re- duced, the sale of dross opium has been abolished, and the price of prepared
been held over for several years. It will sales have increased owing to more opium has been raised from $6.00 to The purchre of a Breakdown Crane bas 14.50 a trel. During the present year deat and will also be used in the railway ernment regrets that this should be the be useful in cases of emergency or acci-stringent preventive measures. The Gov workshops to obviate the long and danger case, but it is antished that, for the ons process at presat involved when the reasons which I have indicated, a further
in present circumstances have any effect ducta Large sums are required for the appear which for various reasons
Under Construction, several works re- upon the amount of opium consumed. improvement of the existing reeds... ****
are In the estimates of revenue for next year Under the head of "Drainage pro-provision has been made for certain new taken into account, as it is hoped that not being proceeded with this year, and the increase of this year has not "been vision has been made for the training of items which are necessary. the streame in connection with the Kau
the general situation will so improve na The fencing which encloses the Railway to enable the Government to get con Lung Tong Development Scheme,
Under the bosd Miscellaneous, pois now some 11 years old and is dila-In conclusion, 1 can only repeat that
Ground from the Station to Signal Hill sumption down to a much lower figure vision has been made for continuing pidated and unsightly. It is proposed to our financial position is a strong one, works in progress New works are the replace it with neat concrete fencing, and that I do not anticipate that there yards (Items 110), and the opening up of our of 10,000 is inserted for the whole amount provided for publia works formation of junk building and repairing which will be in keeping with the 'sur will be any large reduction in our The alterations in the New Government & quarry (Item 1fi)** *****
Grad balances at the end of 1821, even if the Offices (item 22) are intended to provide Under the head of Waterworks" it is conversion of the former premises of the is expended. This satisfactory position further accommodation for the Post proposed to extend the main catchwater China Light and Power Company. Work has continued throughout a period of Office, which is urgently required pwing (Item 115), to make a survey of the Sbing has been commenced and this sum in world-wide trade depression, which has to the great increase in the business of Mun Valley Scheme (Item 116), and to required to complete the work. The been severely felt in this Colony, Wercan that department Under itent 23 pro construct a new reservoir of Shek Lai Pui main building is to be adapted for an only hope that a change for the better, in vision is tadde for certain alterations in (Item 117) The Tact named work, will as a General Store, the present store not far distantia this building for extending the Coloniul form a most useful supplement to the being given up for keeping permanent "Secretary's Offices and 'adapting certain Kowloon Water Supply.
The Supply Bill was then read a first way materials; the former boiler-house tine
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