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to add a third storey to the original portion of the building and 2 more class-rooms at the end. The building will then contain 13 class-rooms capable of accommodating 520 pupils. The improvements at Queen's College for which a sum of 85,500 is estimated include provision for a new closet and for the removal of some steps to provide larger playing space. A sum of $4,800 is inserted for some very necessary improvements at the Civil Hospital, which have had to be postponed from year to year owing to more pressing calls upon available funds.
Communications.
The increase of $15,000 on the original estimate for the road connecting Victoria Gap with High West Gap is due to a difference of 1,620 feet between the length of the road as ascer- -tained by measurement on the ground and the length shown upon the only plan available when the estimate was prepared. Work is at present confined to a section of 3,000 feet. The remainder will be
carried out in small sections as its execution is attended with considerable difficulty owing to the rocky and precipitous nature of much of the hillside to be traversed. An appropriation of $12,000 is made for an improved road between Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay with a view to providing through communication by motor car between the latter place and Victoria. This road will form a
further section of the Diamond Jubilee Commemoration Road round
the Island the construction of which was sanctioned in Kr. Chamber-
7814 -lain's telegram of 22nd. April, 1897, and Despatch No. 114 of
10th. June, 1897.
Drainage.
Under "Training lullahs", item (a) provides for the
training of nullahs in the Kennedy Town District. The work referred to forms part of an arrangement between the Government and the
owner of the lots mentioned whereby the latter surrenders to
Government the area required for constructing Belchers Street
across his lot, thus converting that street into a thoroughfare.
The