P.W.R. New Territories.
Q 68
83. Improvements to Buildings. --The main items carried out under this heading comprised the following:
New ladder to roof platform and general small improvements to Diaphone House, Waglan Lighthouse; improvements to boundary fence, Laichikok Gaol; providing typhoon shutters to windows to the Taipo Island Quarters; and general small improvements to Sheung Shui Police Station Married Quarters.
Other improvements of a minor nature were effected to various other buildings.
The total cost of the work amounted to $6,126.76.
84. Maintenance of Roads and Bridges.
Improvements to Roads and Bridges.
Approximate mileage 69§.—The roads generally were maintained in a satisfactory manner.
The following are particulars of the additional areas laid with improved surfacing during the year:--
Tarring and sanding, Sq. yds. 394,663 2" granolithic paving slabs laid on footways, 4,194 Substitution of granite setts on 6" cement concrete, 32085. Maintenance of Telephones.-The lines and instruments were maintained in good order.
Two new electric bell services were installed.
All the telephones and electric signalling apparatus on the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway were maintained in good condition.
Four new telephones were installed.
All alarm telephones on the frontier were kept in working order.
88. Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.,-The sewers and the trained nullahs at Shamshuipo, and the nullahs and the concrete channels in Kowloon City were cleansed and maintained in good condition.
A number of old disused drains were destroyed and filled in. The details of expenditure under this heading are as follows:—
Labour for cleansing operations, $472.05 Repairs, 13.12 Tools for cleansing operations, ... General incidental expenditure, 19.14 $534.31as against $501.58 in the previous year.