(3) is
69
Bucket Lutrine and
WIS
P.W.E. Kowloon.
undertaken
by
Messrs. Sang Lee & Co. as an extension to their Contract for (1)
and (2).
1921 Estimates,
$15,000.00 | Total Estimates,
1921 Expenditure,
6,075.89
Expenditure to
31/12/21
$6,075.89
140. Roads:-
(a.) Main Roads in Kowloon:
Kowloon City to Mongkoktsui,
Section 1,--Kowloon City to East Side of Railway Embankment.—This Section was approaching completion at the end of the year. Considerable delay was caused by the encountering of hard rock in large quantities which necessitated heavy blasting.
Section 11,-- West of Railway Embankment to Shanghai Street, Mongkoktsui—Good progress was made on this Section. The nullah work involved entailed heavy piling under certain portions of the foundations to walls and invert.
1921 Estimates, ...$200,000.00 | Total Estimates,......
1921 Expenditure,.. 121,956.07
Expenditure to
31/12/21.
$121,956.07
(b.) Extending Coronation Road northwards through hill (formerly K.F.L. 11.)–Fair progress was made during the year.
1921 Estimates,
..$30,000.00 Total Estimates,................
1921 Expenditure,... 13,340.33
Expenditure to 31/12/21..
$17,826.43
(c.) Road to China Light & Power Company's new station.— The expenditure for this work, referred to in last year's Report, paragraph 135 (c), was for completing the surfacing.
1921 Estimates,
$7,000.00
1921 Expenditure,
4,094.75!
Total Estimates,
$50,000.00
Expenditure to
31/12/21,
$16,537.91
(d.) Improvements to existing main roads to fit them for light motor-lorry traffic up to 3 tons.—The Kowloon City Road from W. S. Bailey & Co.'s works to the bridge near the Hill of the King of the Sung was widened to give a minimum width of 20 feet, the carriageway being regraded and surfaced with ordinary macadam and tar painted.