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149. Street Lighting:-Hong Kong-The total number of gas lamps in use at the end of the year in the City and its precincts was 1,821 and in the Hill district 258, the same figures submitted during 1938.
The total number of electric lamps in use at the end of the year, in the City, outside the City and Peak districts, was as follows:-
Street lamps, etc. Pier lamps Public latrine lamps, etc. 903 52 137Improved street lighting was continued by the installation of thirty-two additional gaseous discharge lamps.
Twenty-two electric traffic control lamps and twenty-eight traffic beacon lights were maintained in good order.
The total number of gas lamps in use in Kowloon at the end of the year, all of which are incandescent, was 557. Electric lamps in use at the end of the year totalled 738, an increase of thirty-seven over the previous year. Improved street lighting was continued in Salisbury and Nathan Roads by the installation of ninety-one gaseous discharge lamps.
Electric lamps in use in New Kowloon at the end of the year totalled 588, an increase of three over the previous year.
In the New Territories, electric street lamps in use at the end of the year totalled sixty-three.
The practice of extinguishing certain street lamps at midnight ceased on 12th July and thereafter all lamps were illuminated for the full lighting period.
150. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages:-Damage caused by typhoon and rainstorm was slight, the major items being the blocking of Wongneichong Gap Road during the heavy rains of April 19th and 20th, (being re-opened to traffic however within twenty-four hours), the necessity for a retaining wall in Tai Wan Road which was put in hand and completed, and damage to road surfacing and part of the embankment of Shatin Road.
Minor repairs were effected to several road surfaces and gas lamps. All typhoon reinstatement was completed during the year.
151. Maintenance of Public Cemetery:-Major items consisted of the construction of a retaining wall to support new terraces and repairs to cement concrete surfacing and channelling in the Colonial Cemetery.
152. Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds:-All Government playgrounds were maintained in good condition. The use of departmental labour for the purpose of mowing grass, cleaning ditches, etc., was continued.
PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY.
General Works:-Consequent upon the erection of new buildings, between 130 to 140 road construction operations were executed. Kerbs and channels were laid, footpaths were paved, scavenging lanes surfaced with cement concrete, roadways surfaced with tarasmac, tar macadam and also dry macadam, tar-painted, and any necessary amendments made to levels and alignments.
Eight hundred dollars were contributed by the owners of Stanley inland lots 4 and 5 for road formation, in accordance with special conditions of sale.