Q 23
P.W.R. Hongkong.
PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT.
HONGKONG.
42. Maintenance of Buildings.--The buildings generally were kept in a state of good repair, a number of them being renovated throughout in accordance with the recurring programme. The expenditure amounted to $102,251.81.
43. Improvements to Buildings.—The principal improvements carried out under this heading comprised the construction of reinforced concrete partitions to bedrooms, Government House; renewal of poultry and meat stalls in reinforced concrete at Central Market; surfacing yard to Bullock Stables, Wanchai, with cement concrete and granite setts; renewing floors in cement concrete and hard boarding, erecting verandah for Indians and new urinal for Chinese at the Aberdeen Police Station; erecting concrete partitions at the Ellis Kadoorie School; renewing roof to verandah to the Office of the Colonial Secretariat in reinforced concrete. Numerous other improvements of a smaller nature were effected in various buildings. The total expenditure under the Vote amounted to $17,365.42.
44. Maintenance of Lighthouses.—The lighthouses were painted and colourwashed according to programme and otherwise maintained in good order at a cost of $6,330.98.
45. Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City. Approximate
Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City.
Mileage, 61.—The road surfaces were maintained generally in a satisfactory condition. The asphaltum treatment of carriageways was still further extended throughout the City, and granite setts laid in the carriageways in those portions of the City where the increasing traffic rendered such paving desirable.
The following figures show the extent of the operations carried out at the Government Quarry during the year:
Stone. Various grades passed through crushers :-
A total quantity of 18,071 cubic yards, of which 842 cubic yards were made into tar macadam, 1,478 cubic yards into sand carpeting and 15,751 cubic yards were delivered to various works as the material came from the crushers. Further, 1,306 yards lineal of reinforced concrete standards and railings were made, and 43,634 granolithic paving slabs for use on footways.