36251.
75
branch road from the latter place to the populous group of
villages known as Kam Tin.
DRAINAGE.
For the programme of nullah training
and miscellaneous drainage works which have been particularis-
-ed in these Estimates I would refer you generally to my
remarks to the Council. The amount under the former head
exceeds the provision for this year by $5,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The increase of $4,200 in the original
estimate for the Improvement of ip Liu Village is due as
explained in my Despatch No. 368 of 21st. October forwarding
$2
Financial Kinute 42 to the payment of compensation to parties
whose land and buildings have been resumed. It is proposed to
spend $2,000 on the raising to a proper level a portion of the
area reclaimed in 1908 from the Fish Pond at Taipo with a view.
to its scle as building sites, for which application has al-
-ready been made. The diversion of the Taipo stream which will
entail the construction of a causeway and bridge at a cost of
$10,500, is designed to prepare the way for the future
reclamation of an area, 24 acres in extent, of valuable land
in