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(xiv.) Constructing branch path below Victoria Hospital, KOWLOON.
(xv.) Concreting surface of sea end of Saigon Street (completed), $286
(xvi.) Concreting surface of sea end of Jordan Road (completed), 289
(xvii.) Constructing bridge over Waterloo Road nullah at Yaumati Disinfecting Station, 265
(xviii.) Forming and channelling portion of south end of Canton Road (completed),
1911 Estimates, ...$30,000.00
1911 Expenditure, 25,249.57
250
Item (i.) This work was alluded to in last year's Report. In addition to completing the section therein referred to, a further length of the road on the east side of Happy Valley was undertaken between Inland Lots 1698 and 1577 thus linking up the portion opposite "Le Calvaire" with the part previously executed.
Item (i.) This item forms a continuation of the work referred to in last year's Report, which contained a full description of it.
Item (iii.) This work formed part of the Tai Hang Village Improvement Scheme referred to in paragraph 113 of this Report and was in continuation of that referred to in last year's Report.
Item (iv.) This work was undertaken in order to improve the communication between Bowen Road Tramway Station and Queen's Gardens District and also to afford more direct communication with Barker Road, the path bifurcating some distance above the Albany Filter Beds. The path is 1,624 feet long and 8 feet wide and is surfaced with concrete throughout. The lower portion adjoining the Peak Tramway is carried on bridging.
Item (v.) In accordance with an arrangement come to with the Japanese community, whereby interments of their nationals in the Colonial Cemetery will cease, a path was constructed to a site in the Sookunpoo Valley on which they are about to erect a crematorium, The path is 1,000 feet long and 12 feet wide.
Item (vi.) The construction of the road in question has been undertaken in response to a petition signed by residents in the neighbourhood of Plantation Gap. By arrangement with the lessee of R.B.L. 77, a strip of that lot was acquired to enable a connection to be made with Chamberlain Road. Leaving Chamberlain Road, the road passes between the upper terminus of the Peak Tramway and the Peak Hotel property (R.B.L. 77) and, after rising at a mean gradient of 1 in 25 for a distance of 500 feet, contours the hillside until it meets Plantation Road at a point where the objectionable
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(xiv.) Constructing branch path below Victoria
Hospital,
KOWLOON.
(xv.) Concreting surface of sea end of Saigon
$286
Street (completed),
514
(xvi.) Concreting surface of sea end of Jordan
Road (completed),
289
(xvii.) Constructing bridge over Waterloo Road
nullah at Yaumati Disinfecting Station, 265
(xviii.) Forming and channelling portion of south
end of Canton Road (completed),
1911 Estimates,
1911 Expenditure,
...$30,000.00 25,249.57
250
Item (i.) This work was alluded to in last year's Report. In addition to completing the section therein referred to, a further length of the road on the east side of Happy Valley was undertaken between Inland Lots 1698 and 1577 thus linking up the portion opposite "Le Calvaire" with the part previously executed.
Item (i.) This item forms a continuation of the work referred to in last year's Report, which contained a full description of it.
Item (iii.) This work formed part of the Tai Hang Village Improvement Scheme referred to in paragraph 113 of this Report and was in continuation of that referred to in last year's Report.
Item (iv.) This work was undertaken in order to improve the communication between Bowen Road Tramway Station and Queen's Gardens District and also to afford more direct communication with Barker Road, the path bifurcating some distance above the Albany Filter Beds. The path is 1,624 feet long and 8 feet wide and is surfaced with concrete throughout. The lower portion adjoining the Peak Tramway is carried on bridging.
Item (v.) In accordance with an arrangement come to with the Japanese community, whereby interments of their nationals in the Colonial Cemetery will cease, a path was constructed to a site in the Sookunpoo Valley on which they are about to erect a crematorium, The path is 1,000 feet long and 12 feet wide.
Item (vi.) The construction of the road in question has been undertaken in response to a petition signed by residents in the neighbourhood of Plantation Gap. By arrangement with the lessee of R.B.L. 77, a strip of that lot was acquired to enable a connection to be made with Chamberlain Road. Leaving Chamberlain Road, the road passes between the upper terminus of the Peak Tramway and the Peak Hotel property (R.B.L. 77) and, after rising at a mean gradient of 1 in 25 for a distance of 500 feet, contours the hillside until it meets Plantation Road at a point where the objectionable
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