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cases destroyed. The most serious consequences arising from this will be the delay in carrying out the works. This applies more especially to the Tytam Water-Works, the materials for which have to be conveyed by junk a distance of about 15 miles round the Island. The losses incurred on works in hand fall on the various contractors unless it is eventually decided to give them some compensation on account of the demolition of their matsheds etc.
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Of the Government Piers on the Victoria side Blake Pier and Queen's Statue Pier lost their matshed coverings and sustained minor injuries while a bamboo pier just West of the Western boundary of the Naval Yard was washed away and a wooden one at Kennedy Town lost its planking. The Praya East wall and a stone jetty jutting out from it had stones washed out of them in places and a length of about 200 feet of the rubble sea slope at Kennedy Town was destroyed. At Kowloon the Police Pier at Tsim Sha Tsui was damaged and a steel swing bridge at the entrance to the Tsim Sha Tsui Police Basin, which it was attempted to open during the storm was wrenched from its bearings and thrown into the sea. A wooden pier on the Western side of the Kowloon Peninsula, which had been let, was