144.
kitchens at the Jail, Post Office out buildings, Police stations at Sukanpur and Stanley, Government store-rooms, Government Offices, Bungalow Hospital Hill, Harbour Master's Office, Aberdeen Police Station, 3 Police Stations in Victoria, the Magistracy, Jail Towers and Post Office, the details of which being given in the Blue Book state the whole.
Return, I shall merely amount to £. 140.0.4. In addition to the above, the sum of £.21.2.5 was paid on account of the Storm repairs of 1848, Report and Estimate No. 3 of 1848.
Marine Works. Construction.
An extension of 59 feet to the pier at the Harbour Master's wharf was effected this year, for an expenditure of £. 154. 8. 9; some repairs to the other piers were also rendered necessary, but have not yet been paid for; they were estimated at £. 16. 13.8.
Repairs to Bridges have only amounted to £3. 15. 3. 19.1, but to the wooden Bridges in the Valley, I think it extremely desirable that either stone or brick arches should be made thereto, (plans of which I have prepared), as much to my regret I find both platforms are becoming injured by the weather and dry rot; the beams are decaying in several places; experience has shown that when once such defects appear in work so exposed in this climate, it is extremely difficult if not impossible to prevent the spread of the disease, or depend upon the stability of the several parts of the structure.
So it is also highly desirable that a stone Bridge should be placed over the stream in Causeway Bay, a high one-arch elliptic Bridge of 30 feet span would carry off the water, and with a roadway of 20 feet would ...