Salisbury Road close to the Ferry proposed in the scheme lately sent forward and another at Hung Hom will meet all the Kowloon and Hongkong requirements.
There remains a good deal to be done before the Railway can be said to be completed. Stations and quarters or both have to be built at all stations. Workshops and watering arrangements have to be erected and the reclamation must be finished before the Goods Yard can be laid. As regards the shops nothing can be done in this respect because the site for the Workshops is not levelled off nor is the steel work likely to be out before April. Girders for Bridges 4 and 8 will not be out till the end of March.
Before through opening to Canton however the contract time for completion of the reclamation will have elapsed and the passenger and goods yards will be ready. As the British Section will be ready for opening before the Chinese Section it is proposed to open the line as soon as the essentials are ready, with the station arrangements as intimated above, in order to work up the local traffic and to transport material for the Chinese Section if required, all of which will help in earning Revenue. It is impossible to fix a date at present but it will take at least six weeks after the underframes are out for the Rolling Stock to be ready so that it would not be safe to reckon on anything earlier than July.
Notes on the Estimate for 1910.
II.—Land. Seeing that the question of the terminus is still undecided no alteration has been made in the figures under this head. The expenditure up to date is $762,863.65 leaving a balance of $433,015.55.
III.—(a.)—In revising the Estimate of 1907 at the end of last year, the Earthwork appears to have been reduced by $132,228.62 as the saving anticipated by reducing the line of frontage of the Reclamation between Blackheads and the Storm Water Outfall. The increase of rate due to the rock in Hung Hom Cutting appears to have been lost sight of, for the through rate that was being paid to the Contractors at the beginning of 1909 was that estimated for in 1907, and the amount of rock that was likely to be met with as the Cutting went down to Formation was neglected. As a fact the through rate in 1909 worked up to over $17 a thousand cubic feet and will be close on $20 per thousand cubic feet before the Hung Hom Cutting is completed. In discussing the present increase of Estimate it is well to neglect the 1909 figures in order to show how the increase has arisen. In the table which follows the various figures have been lumped up in order to agree with the heads of Estimate in which the accounts have been kept.
Salisbury Road close to the Ferry proposed in the scheme lately sent forward and another at Hung Hom will meet all the Kowloon and Hongkong requirements.
There remains a good deal to be done before the Railway can be said to be completed. Stations and quarters or both have to be built at all stations. Workshops and watering arrangements have to be erected and the reclamation must be finished before the Goods Yard can be laid. As regards the shops nothing can be done in this respect because the site for the Workshops is not levelled off nor is the steel work likely to be out before April. Girders for Bridges 4 and 8 will not be out till the end of March.
Before through opening to Canton however the contract time for completion of the reclamation will have elapsed and the passenger and goods yards will be ready. As the British Section will be ready for opening before the Chinese Section it is proposed to open the line as soon as the essentials are ready, with the station arrangements as intimated above, in order to work up the local traffic and to transport material for the Chinese Section if required, all of which will help in earning Revenue. It is impossible to fix a date at pre- sent but it will take at least six weeks after the underframes are out for the Rolling Stock to be ready so that it would not be safe to reckon on anything earlier than July.
Notes on the Estimate for 1910.
II.-Land. Seeing that the question of the terminus is still undecided no alteration has been made in the figures under this head. The expenditure up to date is $762,863.65 leaving a balance of $433,015.55.
III.-(a.)-In revising the Estimate of 1907 at the end of last year, the Earthwork appears to have been reduced by $132,228.62 as the saving anticipated by reducing the line of frontage of the Reclamation between Blackheads and the Storm Water Outfall. The increase of rate due to the rock in Hung Hom Cutting appears to have been lost sight of, for the through rate that was being paid to the Contractors at the beginning of 1909 was that estimated for in 1907, and the amount of rock that was likely to be met with as the Cutting went down to Formation was neglected. As a fact the through rate in 1909 worked up to over $17 a thousand cubic feet and will be close on $20 per thousand cubic feet before the Hung Hom Cutting is completed. In discussing the present increase of Estimate it is well to neglect the 1909 figures in order to show how the increase has arisen. In the table which follows the various figures have been lumped up in order to agree with the heads of Estimate in which the accounts have been kept.
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