AnnualReport-1927 — Page 514

P.W.R. Hong Kong.

Q. 28.

Garden Road, junction with Lower

Albert Road,

3---

50 C.P.

Garden Road, junction with Queen's

Road, East,

3-

50

Pokfulam Road, junction with Bonham

Road,

3- 50.

Queen's Road East, junction with

Arsenal. Street,

2- 100 ""

Stubbs Road, junction with Gap Road, 1- 100

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In addition to these, the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company of Hong Kong provide 10 lamps, each having a cluster of three-100 C.P. incandescent lamps for lighting the road adjacent to their property, and the Taikoo Sugar Refining Com- pany also provide and light seven 2,000 C.P. incandescent lamps. for the roads adjacent to their property.

Estimates, Expenditure,

$40,000.00 $39,939.32

46. Extension of Lighting.-Thirty-five Gas and one Electric lamps were installed during the year.

Estimates, Expenditure,

$3,000.00 $2,894.78

47. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages. The work executed under this heading mainly arose through damages caused by the typhoon of the 20th August. Considerable damage to windows, jalousies and roofs occurred at the following buildings in a varying degree:-Central Police Station; Government Offices, Albert Road; Fire Station Building; Imports and Exports Sheds; Government Civil Hospital; Police Training School; Gough Hill Police Station; Mountain Lodge; "The Eyrie"; "Lysholt"; Homestead flats and houses; Government Pavilions, 157, The l'eak; Peak Hospital; Leighton Hill Quarters; Queen's Gardens flats; and Tsat Tsz Mui Police Station. Other Government buildings suffered to a smaller extent. In addition to the above, the matshed. Market at Wanchai was blown down and so was that of the Chair Coolies at The Peak.

Landslides occurred on Aberdeen New Road, Deep Water Bay Road, Island Road, Mount Davis Road, Road from Wong Nei Chong Gap to Repulse Bay, Shek O Road, Stubbs Road, Tai Hang Road, and on several others.

Dangerous boulders were subsequently removed from the hillside above Shau Ki Wan Village, the slope at the rear of Quarry Bay School, and from the hillside above the Bowen Road Conduit.