P.W.E. Hongkong.
Q 74
131. Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903,—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.
1915 Estimates, $30,000.00
1915 Expenditure, $10,606.19
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.
(1.) Properties resumed. Compensation paid. No. 379 Queen's Road Central (L.L. 66, Sec. B). Resumption of a small area for the purpose of widening Bonham Strand. Demolition carried out by lessee at his own expense, $460.00 No. 12 Peak Road (I.L. 1206 and G.L. 3). Payment of compensation for a portion of G.L. 3 resumed in 1906 in connection with the construction of May Road, $223.43 Nos. 122 and 124 Bonham Strand (I.L.'s 560 and 561). Resumption of small areas for the purpose of widening Bonham Strand. Demolition carried out by lessee at his own expense, $4,121.67 Farm Lots 14 and 15, Pokfulam. Resumption in connection with a proposed extension to Kai Lung Wan Cemetery, $2,957.00 Lot 129, Wongneichong Resumption in connection with the extension of the nullah between I.L.'s 1926 and 2065, including compensation for 7 pig-sties, No. 178 Wing Lok Street. Demolition of riding floors over entrance to Tung Hing Lane (M.L. 235, Sec. B) resumed in 1914 (vide paragraph 117 of last year's Report), $151.50$199.71
Arrangements were made for the resumption of a new street on M.L. 110, known as Mallory Street, so soon as it has been formed to a width of 30 feet. Compensation is to be paid at the rate of $2.00 per square foot, the area involved being 3,570 square feet.