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P.W.E. Hongkong.
(b.) Mount Davis and Belchers.-These works were not proceeded with during the year, as negotiations with the Military Authorities had not been completed.
1919 Estimates,
1919 Expenditure,
$4,500.00
Nil.
(c.) General Works.-The two training works mentioned under items (viii) and (xi) in last year's Report (page 62) were completed. A considerable amount of training work was done during the year, the most important items being the construction of a new east wall to the Shektongtsui nullah between Clarence Terrace and Hill Road in connection with extensive building operations on I.L. 795: the raising of the west wall and the construction of three reinforced concrete bridges spanning the nullah opposite Aberdeen Inland Lots 81-88; and the training of two stream-courses east and west of R.B.L. 142, Repulse Bay.
The total lengths trained were 2,026 feet.
1919 Estimates,.. $8,000.00 1919 Transferred from sub-head (b), 2,220.37 $10,220.37 1919 Expenditure (from Government funds) $10,220.37 1919 Expenditure (contributions by various lessees, etc.)... 15,080.08 $25,300.45100. Miscellaneous Drainage Works :-
(a.) Main sewer to intercept drainage from houses on east side of Mount Kellett. -This work was begun in February, 1918, but, as explained in last year's Report, work was suspended for a long period and, consequently, it was not completed until 1919.
It consisted of the laying of a 6" pipe sewer from a point in the valley to the west of Stewart Terrace along the eastern slopes of Mount Kellett to join the sewer which was laid in 1906 from the Matilda Hospital to Kellett Bay. In accordance with the arrangement come to with the lessee of R.B.L. 28, that portion of the sewer which traverses his lot was laid in tunnel.
1919 Estimates, $10,500.00 1919 Sup. Vote, 2,200.00 $12,700.00 1919 Expenditure (from Government funds), $12,124.51 1919 Do. (contributions by various lessees, etc.),.. 76.75 $12,201.26Q 41
P.W.E. Hongkong.
(b.) Mount Davis and Belchers.-These works were not pro- ceeded with during the year, as negotiations with the Military Authorities had not been completed.
1919 Estimates,.
1919 Expenditure,
$4,500.00
Nil.
(e.) General Works.-The two training works mentioned under items (viii) and (xi) in last year's Report (page 62) were completed. A considerable amount of training work was done during the year, the most important items being the construction of a new east wall to the Shektongtsui nullah between Clarence Terrace and Hill Road in connection with extensive building operations on I.L. 795: the raising of the west wall and the construction of three reinforced concrete bridges spanning the nullah opposite Aberdeen Inland Lots 81-88; and the training of two stream-courses east and west of R.B.L. 142, Repulse Bay.
The total lengths trained were 2,026 feet.
1919 Estimates,..
1919 Transferred from sub-head (b),
$8,000.00
2,220.37
$10,220.37
1919 Expenditure (from
Government funds) $10,220.37
1919 Expenditure (contri-
butions by various lessees, etc.)...
15,080.08
$25,300.45
100. Miscellaneous Drainage Works :-
(a.) Main sewer to intercept drainage from houses on east side of Mount Kellett. -This work was begun in February, 1918, but, as explained in last year's Report, work was suspended for a long period and, consequently, it was not completed until 1919.
It con- sisted of the laying of a 6" pipe sewer from a point in the valley to the west of Stewart Terrace along the eastern slopes of Mount Kellett to join the sewer which was laid in 1906 from the Matilda Hospital to Kellett Bay. In accordance with the arrangement come to with the lessee of R.B.L. 28, that portion of the sewer which traverses his lot was laid in tunnel.
1919 Estimates,
1919 Sup. Vote,
1919 Expenditure (from Govern-
1919
Do. (contributions
$10,500.00 2,200.00
$12,700.00
ment funds),
$12,124.51
by various lessees,
etc.),..
76.75
$12,201.26
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