The Shankiwan Road is the only pleasant driving road
of
the European Community And as it is much frequented, accidents may not be improbable until the horses
become accustomed to the tramcars, and
a carriage accident here is the more to
be dreaded that the road is for the most part a marine Embankment with nothing but a low parapet wall to keep in the traffic
a frightened horse could
over which wall a
Easily jump into the sea.
the
6. Under the Imperial Tramways Act.
91870. Sec 31. provision is made for protection of public sewers by reason of
street tramways, and I find upon Enquiry in six of the towns I have recently visited, that the local buthorities have carried though
Engineer whatever alterations to
their own
Best
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public sewers the tramways may have ne
: Cessitated, at the cost and charge of the tram
way Company.
In Hong Kong it will be
very
important to observe the same wise pule, and
it will be
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still greater importance, in Con= sequence of the practical Sanitation of the Colony
being yet in an incomplete stater, to have it
Clearly understood at the outset, that it will
Le for
the
hanway Company to defray the cost
of any temporare, removal of their lines to
other strects that
The Svent of
may be found necessary.
main d
drainage works being see
- Cuted along Queen's Road, and that the Com
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pany will also have to bear the cost of raising
or lowering te permanent way, should it be. recessary in the Course of public improvements to along
to raise or lower the levels of
The streets