P 67
P.W.E. Hongkong.
Approach path to Pokfulam Village :--
Erecting ferro-concrete bridge, 4' 0" wide, across stream course (two spans of 10' 0"),
Less contribution by Lessee of F.L. 76,
Victoria Hospital,-Tiling walls of Lavatory, etc.,
Royal Square,-Paving around statues with granolithic slabs,
1914 Estimates, 1914 Expenditure,
$446,100 $346,239
$40,000.00 $38,135.52
117. Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1905,-Compensation and Resumptions.—This vote provides for the resumption of areas to form scavenging lanes, for the payment of compensation in connection with the removal of houses over the ends of private streets or lanes and other matters. In some cases where houses are of moderate depth, a modification of the open space requirements has been granted, the owners agreeing to provide a lane without compensation in consideration of being permitted to count it as part of their open space.
1914 Estimates, 1914 Expenditure,
$30,000.00 $29,956.10*
The following is a statement of the various resumptions effected during the year and of the scavenging lane areas provided by owners without compensation :--
(1.)--Properties resumed.
Compensation paid.
$ c.
No. 110 Des Voeux Road Central (riding floors over entrance to Hing Lung Street, M.L. 64). Demolition carried out by lessee at his own expense. (This case was settled by Arbitration and the figures given include the Arbitrator's fee ($1,000) and the costs of the arbitration ($952.10)), No. 178 Wing Lok Street (riding floors over entrance to Tung Hing Lane, M.L. 235, Sec. B). Demolition remained to be carried out by Government in 1915, No. 84 Second Street (riding floors over entrance to Sheung Fung Lane, I.L. 634 R.P.). Demolition carried out by lessee at his own expense,
$11,380.10
$3,500.00
$1,350.00
* A sum of $430 was received from the Dairy Farm Co. for the resumption of Lots 26-30 inclusive and Inland Lot 1512, Pokfulam, and this was credited to the vote by deducting it from the sum expended. The expenditure thus appears as $29,526.10 in Annexo B.