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P.W.E. Hongkong.
lowering of the main sewer in Pottinger Street necessitated by the work was carried out.
$8,000.00 | Total Estimates... $11,000.00
1914 Estimates,
1914 Expenditure,...... 7,272.64
Expenditure to 31/12/14,
7,889.32
(a.) From Victoria Gap to High West Gap, “Lugard Road”. Work was confined to the completion of the first section a description of which was given in last year's Report. The railings and surfacing were completed. The surfacing is of tar macadam. An electric cable was laid in the road and five incandescent lamps were erected to light it.
1914 Estimates,... $7,000.00 | Total Estimates,... $55,000.00
Expenditure to 1914 Expenditure,
31/12/14,
6,573.12
17,946.73
(b.) To Inland Lots Nos. 1946 and 1947 on the ridge east of Happy Valley. "Broadwood Road."--The construction of this road was undertaken in October 1913, in accordance with the Conditions of Sale for the lots mentioned and it was completed in November 1914. It is 10' wide and 2,769' long and is surfaced with tar macadam laid on a foundation of broken stone. On account of the precipitous nature of a large mass of rock encountered on the line of the road, it was necessary to have recourse to bridging and a length of 235', comprising eleven spans, ranging from 13' 9" to 35' 0", was constructed in this manner. The bridging is of ferro-concrete supported on brick piers which are rendered all over with cement mortar. Liabilities were discharged before the close of the year.
1914 Estimates, ...... $14,000.00 | Total Estimates,
$16,500.00
Expenditure to
12,924.47
1914 Expenditure, 11,474.53
31/12/14,....
(c.) From Aberdeen to Deep Water Bay-A Contract for this work was let to Li Hing in July and by the close of the year the first half of the road was completed except the surfacing. Some very heavy rock cutting remained however to be done on the remaining half. The work executed includes the construction of one large culvert 10′ 0′′ × 9′ 0′′ and six smaller culverts ranging from 4' 0" × 3' 0" to 3' 0" × 2' 6" as well as several lengths of retaining wall.
This length of road forms a portion of the scheme for the construction of a carriage road to encircle the greater portion of the Island which was planned in 1898, when the construction of the Victoria Road was undertaken. The old road between Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay passes over a gap, 264 feet high, from which it descends steeply and by a dangerous zig-zag to Deep Water Bay, being thus quite unfit for vehicular traffic. The new road leaves the old Aberdeen Road at a point about a mile east of Aberdeen Police Station and traverses the flat valley in which the Green Island Cement Co.'s Brickworks are situated until it reaches the