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P.W.E. Hongkong.
Supply from Wongneichong Reservoir to Repulse Bay Hotel.—An arrangement was concluded with the Hongkong Hotel Company for Government to lay a supply of water between these points, the Company bearing a portion of the cost.
Owing to the difficult nature of the ground to be traversed by the supply pipe, progress was slow, but, by the end of the year, the greater portion of the 3" W.I. pipe (about two miles in length) had been laid.
1920 Estimates,
1920 Sup. Vote,
1920 Expenditure,
$30,000.00 7,707.89 $37,707.89 38,851.87121. Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.—Compensation and Resumptions.—This vote provides for the resumption of areas required in connection with development schemes, the improvement of public streets or the provision of scavenging lanes as well as for the removal of riding floors over the ends of streets and other matters. Where houses are of moderate depth, a modification of the open space requirements has, in many cases, been granted permitting owners to count the scavenging lanes as part of their open space, subject to the condition that no compensation is payable in respect of such lanes.
1920 Estimates, $100,000.00 1920 Expenditure, 97,421.70The 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 :—
Compensation paid.
A number of properties were resumed, details of which will be found in paragraphs 8, 14 and 18 of this Report.
C. 59,624.33 The riding-floors known as 56a, Lower Lascar Row, were resumed, 7,500.00 Compensation was paid for buildings in Murray and Elliott Batteries, 2,103.00 Total $69,227.33Sums amounting to $275.00 were paid for retaining the services of firms of architects and surveyors and for valuations made by those firms in connection with various resumptions; a sum of $1,237.50 was paid to the former owners of IL. 1096