P.W.R. Hongkong.
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Q 36
The following is a statement of the number of lamps, &c., installed or repaired during the year :-
Lamps installed, 842 Radiators installed, 3 Bells installed, 30 Bell indicators installed, 13 Telephones installed, 21 Fans installed, 79 Lamps issued to Departments, 108The lifts at the Law Courts and General Post Office were maintained in good order.
All the foregoing works were carried out departmentally.
53. Maintenance of Sewers. Nullahs, &c.-The sewers, storm-water drains and trained nullahs generally were cleansed and maintained in good condition, those in the City of Victoria and in Shaukiwan District being attended to by the Sanitary Department. The automatic flushing tanks were worked continuously and the manual flushing tanks were operated periodically at low tides. Deposits of sand were cleared as they occurred.
Extensive repairs were made to the inverts of the Albany Nullah and of its branches north and south of May Road, to the nullah east of Victoria Battery and to the nullah east of the old No. 3 Pumping Station, Bonham Road. In the case of the last-mentioned nullah, as the damages were due to building operations, the cost of the repairs was charged to the building contractors concerned. About 1,857 feet of old disused drains of varying sizes and types were destroyed and filled in.
The details of expenditure under this heading are as follows:-
Labour for cleaning operations, $9,748.03 Repairs, 3,770.88 Tools for cleansing operations, 693.33 General Incidental Expenditure, 1,159.73 Total, $15,371.97as against $15,901.37 in the previous year.
54. Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District.—The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year in the City and its precincts was 1,118, an increase of 32 over the previous year and in the Hill District 127, an increase of 2. The positions of the various additional lamps will be found in paragraph 113 of this Report.
55. Electric Lighting, City and Hill District and Shaukiwan. The number of arc lamps in the principal roads of the City remains unaltered, namely, 75. The number of incandescent lamps has been increased to 41 by installing 20 50-candle power new lamps in Shaukiwan Village. Electric current was not available in the Shaukiwan District until 1915, when the Hongkong Electric Co. extended their service of cables to that district.