-Q 73
P.W.E. Hongkong.
115. Miscellaneous Water Works.-The following is a statement of the works undertaken under this heading:-
(i.) Fire Hydrants, Kennedy Road....
(ii) Recorder, Gauge Basin, Taitam,
(iii.) Sluice Board House, Taitam,
(iv.) Tiles and Bricks, Bowen Road Filter Beds,
(v.) Feed Water Heater, Pokfulam Road Pumping Station,
(vi.) Substituting a 6" main for the old 3" mains, Shaukiwan, (incomplete),
(vii.) Preparing pipes for a new intake in Saiwan Valley for Shaukiwan Water Works (incomplete),
(viii.) General,
$272.48 5.26 33.76 2,819.72 709.80 1,027.32 123.44 39.17 Total...$5,030.95Item (i). This work has been awaiting the completion of certain diversions near the west end of Kennedy Road. Part of the work has been undertaken each year as occasion has arisen.
Items (ii) and (iii). These are small outstanding balances on the works which were described in last year's Report (page 78).
Item (iv). This provides for applying to the Bowen Road Filter Beds the improvements which have been effected in the filtering arrangements elsewhere.
Item (v). A feed-water heater is now fixed to the new engine at the Pokfulam Road Pumping Station in order to render the engine more economical.
Item (vi). In order to provide for the extinction of fires, it is necessary to lay a larger main. Pending certain proposals with regard to roads, the work could not be proceeded with but most of the pipes required were issued.
Item (vii). This Expenditure was incurred in cleaning, straightening and re-threading the pipes which were originally laid in the Taipo Road in connection with the construction of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. It is intended to re-lay them in order to convey the water from certain streams in the Saiwan Valley to the Filter Beds in connection with the Shaukiwan Village Supply.
1918 Estimates,1918 Expenditure, $8,000.005,030.95KOWLOON
116. Quarters for Subordinate Officers, (2nd Block).--A contract for the erection of these quarters, amounting to $104,010.26, was let to Messrs. Kien On & Co. on the 21st April, and an immediate start with the work was made,