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required to find a personal bond, 41 were discharged with a caution and 18 without.
Particulars are given in Tables II and III.
Two Forest Guards were dismissed and two resigned.
Five contractors had sums, amounting to $84 in all, deducted from their securities for damage done to growing trees in the vicinity of their coolies' matsheds.
Planting and Care of Roadside Trees.-In Hongkong and Kowloon 1,329 trees and shrubs were planted alongside or near roads.
This number included those replaced owing to failures in previous plantings.
The principal roads planted were Bowen, Conduit, Wongneichong Gap to Little Hongkong, Wongneichong Gap to Tytam Reservoir, Magazine Gap, May, Pokfulam and Victoria.
The trees in the Kowloon roads suffered very much from the gale in August.
On the Taipo Road, between the 6th and 9th miles, about 500 trees and shrubs were planted on the newly made banks necessitated by the improvements to the road.
Most of these were flowering trees and shrubs but unfortunately soon after they were planted a heavy rainstorm washed out and destroyed many of them.
Bamboos Planted. Along the roadside between Fauling and Santin where the bridges are narrower than the road, bamboos were planted to emphasise the reduced width to drivers of motor cars.
Altogether 173 clumps were planted at these places.
The bamboo hedge on the east side of the Upper Albert road, which had become very untidy and ragged, was taken up and replanted for a length of 433 feet.
Taipo-Funting-Castle Peak Road.--The trees along this road received constant attention during the year.
Trees which had failed to grow from various causes were replaced by others.
The widening of the section between Santiu and Autau was not completed early enough to allow of any planting being done.
Fanling Hills.-Besides the pine and broad-leaved trees planted on the hills in the neighbourhood of the Golf Course about 4,000 flowering shrubs were put in.
A list of these is given in Table IV.
The Poinsettias at the ninth green were taken up, the ground heavily manured, and the Poinsettias replanted.
They well repaid this treatment as they made vigorous growth and flowered well towards the end of the year.
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required to find a personal bond, 41 were discharged with a caution and 18 without.
Particulars are given in Tables II and III.
Two Forest Guards were dismissed and two resigned.
Five contractors had sums, amounting to $84 in all, deducted from their securities for damage done to growing trees in the vicinity of their coolies' matsheds.
Planting and Care of Roadside Trees.-In Hongkong and Kowloon 1,329 trees and shrubs were planted alongside or near roads.
This number included those replaced owing to failures in previous plantings.
The principal roads planted were Bowen, Conduit, Wonguei- chong Gap to Little Hongkong, Wongneichong Gap to Tytam Reservoir, Magazine Gap, May, Pokfulam and Victoria.
The trees in the Kowloon roads suffered very much from the gale in August.
On the Taipo Road, between the 6th and 9th miles, about 500 trees and shrubs were planted on the newly made banks necessitated by the improvements to the road.
Most of these were flowering trees and shrubs but unfortunately soon after they were planted a heavy rainstorm washed out and destroyed many of them.
Bamboos Planted. Along the roadside between Fauling and Santin where the bridges are narrower than the road, bamboos were planted to emphasise the reduced width to drivers of motor cars.
Altogether 173 clamps were planted at these places.
The bamboo hedge on the east side of the Upper Albert road, which had become very untidy and ragged, was taken up and replanted for a length of 433 feet.
Taipo-Funting-Castle Peak Road.--The trees along this road received constant attention during the year.
Trees which had failed to grow from various causes were re- placed by others.
The widening of the section between Santiu and Autau was not completed early enough to allow of any planting being done.
Fanling Hills.-Besides the pine and broad-leaved trees planted on the hills in the neighbourhood of the Golf Course about 4,000 flowering shrubs were put in.
A list of these is given in Table IV.
The Poinsettias at the ninth green were taken up, the ground heavily manured, and the Poinsettias replanted.
They well repaid this treatment as they made vigorous growth and flowered well towards the end of the year.
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