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53. Maintenance of Public Cemetery.-General repairs were carried out to the surface channels and fountain. Toe walls were constructed at a cost of $1,050 to protect two of the newly formed terraces and two additional buttresses and an additional retaining wall were built on the northern boundary of the Cemetery at a cost of $1,096 to aid in preventing landslips. Permits to the number of 74 were issued for the erection and repair of monuments and 40 tombstones were renovated at a cost of $350.
54. Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds.-Plots C to F of the Wongneichong Recreation Ground were closed from May to October whilst improvements were being effected in the surface and subsoil drainage system of the valley. The Kowloon Cricket Club completed their pavilion in King's Park, Kowloon, and permission was granted on nominal terms to the Craigengower and Civil Service Cricket Clubs to erect permanent pavilions adjoining their allotments on the Wongneichong Recreation Ground.
The Polo Club's Riding School on the Queen's Recreation Ground was demolished and reconstructed on a new site to admit of the extension of the area available for purposes of recreation. The expenditure incurred during the year in connection with the carrying out of this proposal amounted to $2,100.
55. Dredging Foreshores.-The quantity of material dredged during the year by the Priestman Grab Dredger was 33,836 c. yds., of which 8,990 c. yds. were dredged from the site of the Mongkoktsui Breakwater and 22,407 c. yds. from Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter.
56. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages.--A statement showing the extent of the damage done to Government Property by the typhoon of the 27th July was published in the Government Gazette dated September 25th, 1908.
Some of the repairs necessitated by the typhoon of the 18th September, 1906, were still in progress, notably the reinstatement of the pitching on the outer face of the Causeway Bay Breakwater. This work progressed slowly owing to the fact that most of it was tide-work and that very low tides were necessary before it could be begun. When it was nearing completion, further damage to a portion about 200 feet in length was done by the storms of the 27th July and subsequent dates.
The sea wall between Arsenal Street and East Point was thoroughly underpinned and repairs were found necessary to the section between Shek Tong Tsui and the Naval Yard. It was also found necessary to take down and entirely rebuild the North face of the West abutment of Bowrington Canal Bridge.
The Government cable under the Harbour from North Point to Hunghom was broken in two places by steamers dragging their anchors through the Cable Reserve, the north end being pulled out of the cable house. As a result of the serious damage done, it was found necessary to cut away 900 feet of the cable and to splice in a new piece 1,000 feet long.
The telephone service was very much damaged, nearly the whole of the New Territories lines being demolished. A further slip having occurred in the bank at "Braeside" (I. L. 1523) a new retaining wall was built above the one previously constructed.
57. Maintenance of City and Hill District Waterworks.-The year opened with universal constant supply in force and, with recourse to pumping for a period of 36 days during March and April from Tytam Intermediate Reservoir, it was possible to maintain constant supply throughout the entire year.
The quantity of water stored in the Impounding Reservoirs on the 1st of January amounted to 577,894,000 gallons and it reached a minimum on the 26th April when it amounted to 218,182,000 gallons.
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53. Maintenance of Public Cemetery.-General repairs were carried out to the surface channels and fountain. Toe walls were constructed at a cost of $1,050 to protect two of the newly formed terraces and two additional buttresses and an additional retaining wall were built on the northern boundary of the Cemetery at a cost of $1,096 to aid in prevent- ing landslips. Permits to the number of 74 were issued for the erection and repair of monuments and 40 tombstones were renovated at a cost of $35!).
54. Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds.-Plots C to F of the Wongneichong Recreation Ground were closed from May to October whilst improvements were being effected in the surface and subsoil drainage system of the valley. The Kowloon Cricket Club completed their pavilion in King's Park, Kowloon, and permission was granted on nominal terms to the Craigengower and Civil Service Cricket Clubs to crect premanent pavilions adjoining their allotments on the Wongneichong Recreation Ground.
The Polo Club's Riding School on the Queen's Recreation Ground was demolished and reconstructed on a new site to admit of the extension of the area available for purposes of recreation. The expenditure incurred during the year in connection with the carrying out of this proposal amounted to $2,100.
55. Dredging Foreshores.-The quantity of material dredged during the year by the Priestman Grab Dredger was 33,836 . yds., of which 8,990 c. yds. were dredged from the site of the Mongkoktsui Breakwater and 22,407 c. yds. from Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter.
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56. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages.--A statement showing the extent of the damage done to Government Property by the typhoon of the 27th July was published in the Government Gazette dated September 25th, 1908.
Some of the repairs necessitated by the typhoon of the 18th September, 1906, were still in progress, notably the reinstatement of the pitching on the outer face of the Causeway Bay Breakwater. This work progressed slowly owing to the fact that most of it was tide- work and that very low tides were necessary before it could be begun. When it was nearing completion, further damage to a portion about 200 feet in length was done by the storms of the 27th July and subsequent dates.
The sea wall between Arsenal Street and East Point was thoroughly underpinned and repairs were found necessary to the section between Shek Tong Tsui and the Naval Yard. It was also found necessary to take down and entirely rebuild the North face of the West abutment of Bowrington Canal Bridge.
The Government cable under the Harbour from North Point to Hunghom was broken in two places by steamers dragging their anchors through the Cable Reserve, the north end being pulled out of the cable house. As a result of the serious damage done, it was found necessary to cut away 900 feet of the cable and to splice in a new piece 1,000 feet long.
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The telephone service was very much damaged, nearly the whole of the New Ter- ritories lines being demolished. A further slip having occurred in the bank at "Braeside " (I. L. 1523) a new retaining wall was built above the one previously constructed.
57. Maintenance of City and Hill District Waterworks.-The year opened with uni- versal constant supply in force and, with recourse to pumping for a period of 36 days during March and April from Tytam Intermediate Reservoir, it was possible to maintain constant supply throughout the entire year.
The quantity of water stored in the Impounding Reservoirs on the 1st of January amounted to 577,894,000 gallons and it reached a minimum on the 26th April when it amounted to 218,182,000 gallons.
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