53
P.W.R. Hong Kong.
A considerable number of defective traps was renewed, and a number of old disused drains of various sizes and types destroyed and filled in.
The details of expenditure under this heading were as follows:---
Labour for cleansing operations $10,779.45
Repairs 5,178.27
Tools for cleansing operations 1,071.02
General incidental expenditure 822.42
$17,851.16
as against $16,119.01 in the previous year.
52. Gas Lighting,-City, Suburbs and Hill District.-The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year in the City and its precincts was 1,529, an increase of 160 over the previous year, and in the Hill District 202, an increase of 2 as compared with the previous year.
53. Electric Lighting,-City, Hill District and Shaukiwan. The number and positions of incandescent lamps in the principal roads of the City are as under: —
City of Victoria Various Roads 60-1,000 C.P. Chater Road, junction of Jackson Road 1 800 Des Voeux Road, Central junction of Jackson Road 1 300 Connaught Road, Central, near Star Ferry Wharf 1 200 On Tramway route 110 100 Chater Road-Murray Road 2 100 Wanchai Gap Road--Bowen Road 11 100 Wongneichong Recreation Grounds 1 100 103 100 5 100 North Point Cable Area 25 100 Stubbs Road Pokfulam Road 37 100 Aberdeen Shaukiwan Road 82 50 Breezy Point Government Quarters 50 Kennedy Town Pier 50 Bowen Road 19 32 Path from Bowen Road to May Road 6 32 Lugard Road 19 32 17 Magazine Gap Road 21 32 17 Tregunter Path 18 32 12