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Works not appearing in Estimate, New Territories.
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230 Road from Aberdeen to Deep Water Bay beyond the Paper Mills.
-This road, from the Aberdeen Paper Mills for a length of 2,500 feet proceeding Eastwards, was widened to 30 feet.
1924 Estimates, 1924 Expenditure, $26,000.00 $18,691.81KOWLOON.
23. Sexton's Quarters, Kowloon Cemetery.-This work was referred to in paragraph 241 of last year's Report.
A contract was let to Messrs. Wo Fat & Co., in November, 1923. By the end of the year, the work was completed and handed over to the Sanitary Department.
1924 Estimates, 1924 Expenditure, Total Estimates, Expenditure to 31.12.24, $ 8,496.34 $ 8,496.342 2 Police Married Quarters, Mongkok.—A contract for this work was let to Messrs. Tat Lee & Co., late in November, and the usual preliminaries begun but no actual work on the site commenced.
1924 Estimates, 1924 Expenditure, $ 528.97233. Laichikok Prison.-Four sheds of the upper terrace were rebuilt in brickwork with new tile-roofs on steel trusses, such as those already done on the lower terrace, and were finished by the end of the year.
Extensive additional fencing was found necessary and put in hand and will be continued in 1925.
1924 Estimates, 1924 Sup. Vote, 1924 Expenditure, $35,000.00 $33,754.91234. Gascoigne and Nathan Roads, Kowloon,--Removal of the Hill to improve the junction.—Satisfactory progress was maintained throughout the year, about 66,000 cubic yards of earth and rock being removed.
The nature of the material to be excavated was such that it was found impossible to complete the work by the end of the year.
1924 Estimates, 1924 Expenditure, $122,000.00 $ 62,387.05235. Pier at Blackhead's Point.--A hardwood pier 60 feet in length and projecting 30 feet from the Praya Wall, with two dolphins, was erected off the Government Coal Storage Depôt at Blackhead's Point for the Harbour Department, for facilitating the unloading of coal from steamers and junks.
1924 Estimates, 1924 Expenditure, $45,377.45