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year. The positions of the additional lamps will be found in paragraph 91 of this report.
53. Electric Lighting, Kowloon.-No alteration has been made in the number of lamps which remains at 22.
54. Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers.-The following is a statement of the principal items of expenditure under this vote:- Blake Pier (painting with black Mastic paint, including small repairs), $1,733
Praya East Sea-wall (filling in with cement concrete hollows at back of wall), 946
Sea-wall adjoining K.M.L. 42 (constructing wall at end of public road adjoining lots reclaimed during recent years), 620
Kennedy Town Pier (general repairs), 522
Causeway Bay pitched slope (filling in with cement concrete hollows at back of pitching), 480
Water Police Pier, Kowloon Point, (general repairs), 404
Murray Pier (temporary), (general repairs), 372
Kowloon City Pier, do., 266
- 1,004
Wages of bargemen (employed on floating plant which is used for pier work, etc.),-
55. Maintenance of Public Cemetery. The formation of the new terrace to provide for the interment of Non-Christians, which was commenced about the end of 1909, was completed during the year, a retaining wall being built to enable the surplus material resulting from the excavations to be deposited in another part of the cemetery. A portion of the cemetery lying South of the area reserved for the interment of old residents was cleared of trees and undergrowth and laid out for burial purposes.
56. Laying out Chinese Cemeteries and trenching for burials. An account of the work carried out under these headings will be found in paragraph 35 of this report.
57. Exhumation of remains in Cemeteries. work carried out under these headings will be found in paragraph 35 of this report.
58. Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds.—The various grounds were maintained in good order. The fence round that portion of King's Park allotted to Yaumati School was repaired at a cost of $52.00 and the turf on the Wongneichong Recreation Ground was patched at a cost of $209.00. The filling in of the area on the East side of Tai Hang Nullah, with a view to the extension of the Queen's Recreation Ground, which was referred to in last year's report, was completed at a total cost of $2,690.43, of which $1,690.43 was expended in 1910.
In consequence of the formation of a Chinese Recreation Club, an allotment for a period of 5 years, commencing from the 1st October, of an area measuring about 410 × 335' (3.15 acres) on the Queen's Recreation Ground was made to it upon certain conditions. The area referred to was rendered available by carrying out certain alterations, including a further diversion of the road leading to Tai Hang Village. The total cost of these alterations, including
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