1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1907.
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A matshed structure, was in progress: a new market at Sai-Wan-Ho, near Shaukiwan, was practically completed: an extension of the staff quarters at the Government Civil Hospital was undertaken to afford accommodation for the nurses hitherto supported by the Nursing Institute; and a jinricksha shelter was erected close to the Star Ferry pier in Salisbury Road, Kowloon. As the construction of the railway involved the demolition of the slaughter house and cattle depôt at Hunghom, the erection of new slaughter houses and depôts was begun at Ma Tau Kok. Provision is made in the new establishments for considerable development beyond present requirements. The works of reconstruction of gullies and extension of nullah training were continued, $10,000 being spent on the former and over $23,500 on the latter. A large tank for flushing a portion of the sewerage system of the city was constructed at the junction of Water Street and Queen's Road West; the rifle ranges for the use of the Volunteer Reserve Association at the Peak and King's Park, Kowloon, were extended; a new service reservoir at West Point for supplying the high levels of the city was begun; a new cable reserve was established at North Point and the cables were transferred to it; an obelisk in memory of the French sailors lost in the typhoon of the 18th September, 1906, was erected; and the construction of a retaining wall behind Inland Lot 1,523 to obviate the risk of landslips which threatened to endanger the conduit conveying the water from Tytam to the city was completed.
The Mee Lun Lane Improvement Scheme was completed. Another section of Robinson Road, Kowloon, extending from Market Street to Waterloo Road was undertaken and the removal of the hill north of Yaumati Theatre was continued, the material being used for private reclamation work north of the Naval Coaling Depôt. The extensions of Conduit Road in easterly and westerly directions and of the road past Kowloon City mentioned last year were completed, and a further section of the latter road extending to its junction with the Chiu Lan Chu Road was undertaken. A new path, connecting Barker Road with May Road, as the extension of Conduit Road in an Easterly direction has been designated, was completed.
The extension and reconstruction of the Albany Filter Beds was continued, fair progress being made with the work.
The total amount expended on public works extraordinary, exclusive of advance accounts and deposits not available, was $784,320 and on works annually recurrent, $538,041. By the transfer of the item "typhoon and rainstorm damage" from the former head to the latter, the first-mentioned sum has been diminished by $106,659 whilst the last-mentioned has been correspondingly increased.
Good progress was made on the British section of the Hong Kong-Canton Railway the cost of which is being defrayed by a Loan.
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