Q 17
P.W.R. Kowloon.
The details of the expenditure under this head are as follows: —
Labour for cleansing operations..
Repairs,
Tools for cleansing operations.
General incidental expenditure,
$3,973.10
1,090.08
174.30
175.22
$5,412.80
as against $6,689.36 in the previous year.
73. Gas Lighting.--The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year was 293, an increase of 36 as compared with the previous year. To more effectively light Nathan and Salisbury Roads, "Suggs" pattern high-candle-power lamps were erected centrally, the old lamps being removed to other roads where additional lighting was required. Particulars of the positions of additional lamps and a note of lamps removed will be found in paragraph 146 of this Report.
74. Electric Lighting. The number of electric lamps in use at the end of the year, all of which are incandescent, was 68, an increase of 25 as compared with the previous year.
This is due to the extension of street lighting to the Fuk Tsun Heung and Shamshuipo Districts. Particulars of the positions of the additional lamps will be found in paragraph 146 of this Report.
75. Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers.--The following is a statement of the principal items of expenditure under this vote :—
Tsim Sha Tsui Pier:-
Repairing partitions enclosing Revenue Officer's shed, rearranging seats, &c..
Renewing cast iron treads to stairs,
Laying gas service for lighting pier,
Minor repairs,
$520.91
155.50
100.00
24.38
$800.82
Temporary Bamboo Coaling Pier
General repairs,...
250.68
Tsim Sha Tsui Seawall-General repairs,
192.34
The old Police Pier, which was in a very dilapidated condition, was removed. It has been superseded, as a public landing place, by the old Star Ferry Pier, which was acquired by Government under the arrangements entered into with the Wharf and Godown Co. in 1912, when the site of the new Terminal Station for the Railway was decided upon.
76. Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries. The work carried out under this heading has already been alluded to in paragraph 42 of this Report.
77. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages.--The only items entailing any considerable expenditure were the clearing of sand from the Waterloo Road Nullah and the repairing of some damages caused to the road leading to the Slaughter Houses at Ma Tau Kok.