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of partitions in the living-rooms was subsequently ordered, but had not been completed at the close of the year.
1908. Estimates, $30,000.00
1908. Expenditure, $11,996.19
76. New Roads in Kowloon.
Total Estimates, $30,000.00
Expenditure to 31/12/08, $11,996.19
The following were the works executed under this vote:
(i.) Extension of Robinson Road (re-named Nathan Road) from Market Street to Waterloo Road. This work was completed at a cost of $13,581.70, the expenditure during 1908 amounting to $4,351.94.
(ii.) Continuation of same from Waterloo Road to K.F.L. No. 2. This work became necessary on account of the erection of the Cigar Factory on K.I.L. 1203. It was incomplete at the close of the year, the expenditure on it amounting to $8,514.36.
(iii.) Road from Ma Tau Kok to Tai Shek Ku (incomplete). The principal object of this road was to shorten the distance from the Slaughter Houses to Yaumati but it will be found very useful in other ways. The expenditure amounted to $3,096.15.
1908. Estimates, $30,000.00
1908. Expenditure, $15,962.45
77. New Roads in New Territories.-The extension of the Kowloon City Road from its point of intersection with the Military roads to its point of bifurcation to Customs Pass and Chin Lan Chu Village was completed at a cost of $6,352.98, the Military Authorities contributing a sum of $3,176.58. There is nothing special to record about it. The gradient varies from 1 in 14 to 1 in 8.
Contracts were let towards the close of the year for:
(a.) A road, 6 feet in width, from Castle Peak Bay to Ping Shan Village.
(b.) A road, 7 feet in width, from near Kowloon City to Shatin Pass.
The amount expended on item (a) was $2,500 for land resumptions and $1,250.97 for surveying, defining areas to be resumed, etc., or a total of $3,750.97.
In the case of item (b), the Military Authorities are to bear the principal part of the cost, the Government taking over and maintaining the road after its completion. The expenditure amounted to $1,594.68 for land resumption.
1908. Estimates, $15,000.00
1908. Expenditure, $8,524.23
78. Forming and Kerbing Streets.-The following is a statement of the works executed under this heading, except those of a trifling nature. The sum stated is in some cases only a part of the cost owing to the work extending into more than one year:
HONGKONG.
(i.) Improving Shaukiwan Road from S.M.L. 1 to a point midway between S.L.s 395 and 397:
Resumptions or compensation for removal of buildings to new sites, $6,550 Pulling down old buildings, 300 Diverting and kerbing and channelling road, 3,961 Reconstructing No. 8 Bridge and forming road to eastward of same, 963 Diverting nullah adjoining S.I.L. 414, 342 Diverting tramway, 2,539 791 Total $15,446 Widening road opposite S.M.L. 1 to admit of diversion of tramway,(ii) Improving Shaukiwan Road below Quarry Bay Dam No. 4, $7,754
(iii) Improvement of Kennedy Road West of Public Laundries and extension of Stone Nullah Lane to Kennedy Road, 3,282
(iv.) Excavating hill, removing slips and forming Forbes and Cadogan Streets, Kennedy Town, 3,000
(v) Forming and kerbing streets intersecting S.M.L.s 2-10, 2,373
(vi.) Forming and kerbing Praya West between Sand Street and Smithfield, 715
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