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Contract, also that of all payments are made in the Treasury, and thus the Engineering staff spared duties which take up fully half of the time.
J. Micens, formerly holding similar appointments in Ceylon, has been appointed.
While it is always possible to obtain for special works the services of private engineering firms, as has been done lately in regard to the New Kowloon Water supply, in Victoria Jubilee Road and Hospital, and other work.
6. Two large permanent Police Stations have been built in the New Territory, and two more have been contracted for, which completes all the building required in that district for a long time to come.
If no special development of the work for the Territory is contemplated, the construction of the main road from Tai Po to Shaipo will necessarily go on slowly, at the rate of three or four miles annually, and this work has been supervised by the Assistant Engineer (Mr. Hughes) who has been on this special work since its commencement. In the whole of the construction and Maintenance...