Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
V.-PUBLIC WORKS.
The extension of the Central Police Station was practically completed and the extension of the Harbour Office building to accommodate the Imports and Exports Department made good progress. Another storey was added to the Public Works Department Annexe, making the building a 3-storied one, and a similar addition to the European Lunatic Asylum to provide quarters for the warders was practically completed, that portion of the building hitherto occupied as quarters being utilized for the accommodation of patients. The erection of quarters for European Officers on Leighton Hill and the formation of sites for Senior Officers' Quarters on Mount Gough were begun.
A second block of quarters (6 houses) in Kowloon for Subordinate Officers was completed as was also a market at Tai O.
The additional service reservoir and filter beds for the supply of the western section of the City were completed and the laying of a new 18" main from Bowen Road to the Monument, Happy Valley, to improve the supply of water to the eastern section of the City was begun.
The laying of the new 18" supply main from the Kowloon Storage Reservoir to Yaumati was resumed towards the close of the year, a large number of the pipes required having arrived from England. The widening and improvement of the old road, extending from the Aberdeen Paper Mills to near Little Hongkong Village, where it joins the new road, constructed in 1915, was completed and extensive improvements to the old Pokfulam Road, extending from the University to Aberdeen Docks, were undertaken. The new road from Repulse Bay to a point about half a mile east of Stanley and the widening and improvement of the old road from this point onwards to Taitam Tuk Dam and also from Taitam Gap to Shaukiwan were practically completed. The construction of a new road traversing the hillside in Wong Nei Chong Valley and extending to Bowen Road was well advanced. The widening of the eastern portion of Bowen Road and the construction of a new road from Bowen Road to Wanchai Gap were undertaken. The extension of Lugard Road to High West Gap, where it will join Harlech Road, was also undertaken. The new road from Shanghai Street, Kowloon, to the southern portion of the Taikoktsui Peninsula was completed and another new road from Kowloon City Road to the China Light and Power Company's new Station and the Dock Company's new houses at Tai Wan Bay was begun. In the New Territories, extensive improvements in that portion of the Tai Po Road between the 9th and 18th milestones were still in progress. The new coastal road from Tsün Wan to Castle Peak Bay was completed, thus rendering available for motor traffic a circular route 57 miles in length.
Beaconsfield Arcade was resumed by Government at a cost of $275,000 as was also Rural Building Lot 111, adjoining “Victoria Hospital." The last-mentioned building was resumed in connection with contemplated extensions of the Hospital. A commencement was made with the resumptions required in connection with the widening of Queen's Road East and of that portion of Wanchai Road extending from Queen's Road to Praya East.
Arrangements were made for the resumption of Kowloon Farm Lot No. 11 to enable Coronation Road to be extended northwards and the resumptions required in connection with the road improvement schemes mentioned in last year's Report were continued.