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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL.
The total expenditure during the first session of the Technical Institute was $4,412; total receipts (students' fees) were $1,377.
The classes were attended for the most part by Chinese, but a considerable number of Europeans also attended. The students take a deep interest in their work and generally have made very great progress in their studies.
There is a well-equipped chemical laboratory. The lecturers are for the most part officers belonging to the public works, education, and medical departments and Queen's College who receive fees for their lectures.
Visual Instruction.-Arrangements have now been made by which regular courses of lectures are delivered during the cool weather at the prominent Government and grant schools in the Colony, illustrated by the lanterns which were purchased in 1905.
Many schools which had no opportunity of taking the course when the lanterns first arrived took the course for the first time this year, and to them the sets of slides were quite new, but in the case of several schools the lectures covered the same ground as last year. It will be necessary to vary these lectures, which have again been full of interest to all concerned, next year by the addition of some new sets of slides, and the suggestion that they should illustrate emigrant life in Canada, Australia, and other parts of the Empire appears a very happy one.
Y.-PUBLIC WORKS.
The principal public works in progress during the year, exclusive of the railway, were the Tytam Tuk Waterworks (1st section) and the Kowloon Waterworks, both of which have been described in previous reports. The former were practically completed and fair progress was made with the latter, which are now in such a forward state as to be fully capable of supplying the whole peninsula with water. The extension of the distribution system to the important villages of Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City, and Taikoktsui was completed and the substitution of mains of larger diameter for those originally laid at Kowloon Point was in progress to ensure an efficient supply of water for fire extinction purposes, the erection of large godowns being in progress there.
The new Law Courts and new Government Offices were still under construction, whilst the Public Mortuary near Yaumati and the Time Ball Tower on Blackhead's Hill, Kowloon, were completed. A new building to accommodate the Land Office at Tai Po, which had hitherto been housed in a temporary ...