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Dien's Road to the sea, a communication which was loudly called for by the increasing trade of the Port.
A portion of the Bowring Praya in front of Pedder's Wharf has been formed and the Wharf itself filled in and levelled, and this portion of the City has been greatly improved, thereby.
Roads and streets have been formed near West Point, and in the neighbourhood of the Wong-ne-chung Valley at a new Chinese Settlement, called "Bowrington", and various others have been reformed and repaired and a Land-slip made good in Hollywood Road.
The line of a new Road from the Gap to Stanley has been surveyed and laid out, by which the distance from The Post Office to Stanley would be 3 miles with gradients sufficiently easy for carriages.
In connexion with the Streets and Roads, sewers and drains have been constructed, some sewers have been enlarged, others cleared out and repaired and stone channels have been added to most of the principal thoroughfares of the City.
Four cast iron tanks have been erected, water laid on and cast iron mains provided with stop-cocks and water boxes, attached to three of them for the supply of water in case of fire, and a new Fire Engine has been purchased and placed under the care of the Superintendent of...
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TILLŢIC.O./133
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COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPAZ NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
Dien's Road to the sea, a
communication which was
loudly called for by the increasing hade of the Port .
A portion of
of the Bowring Praya in front of
edder's Wharf has been formed and the Wharfiwelf filled, in and levelled, and this & portion of the City has been greatly improved, thereby .
Reads and threets have been formed
Various
near West Point, and in the neighbourhood of the Wong- nechung Valley at a new Chinesl Settlement, called "Bowrington, and various others have been reformed. and repaired and a Land-slip made good in Hollywood Road
The line of a new Road from the Gap to Stanby has been surveyed and lockspitted
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by w high the distance from The Post Office to Stanley would be miles with gradients sufficiently easy
carriages.
In connexion, with the Sheels and Roads, sewers and drains have been constructed, some severs have been.
enlarged, others cleared out and repaired and stone channels have been added, to most of the principal, thoroughfares
of the City.
Hour cast iron tanks have been erected, water laid on and cast iron mains,
provided with stop-cocks and water bosces, attached
Fire
to three of them for the supply of water in case oftere, and a new & Engine has been purchased and placed under the care the Superintendent of.
of
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