Q 24
79. Electric Lighting:-The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year was 681, an increase of thirty-six over the previous year.
A scheme for the improvement of lighting in Nathan Road is under consideration.
All traffic control lights were maintained in good order.
Expenditure
$39,454.87
80. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages:-Repairs of varying magnitude were made to practically all Government buildings. Land slips occurred in cuttings on various roads. Telephone poles and lines in Kowloon were repaired.
Sand and silt were removed from nullahs at Mongkok, Argyle Street, Waterloo Road, King's Park, Gascoigne Road, Lo Lung Hang and Sung Wong Toi and from the storm water culvert on the north side of the Railway Yard at Hung Hom and catchpits in Cemetery Valley Nullah and at Waterloo Road-Argyle Street junction, etc.
Expenditure
$31,989.86
81. Maintenance of Water Works, Kowloon:-The year opened with the supply restricted to fifteen hours per day (6 a.m.-9 p.m.) and with the exception of the Chinese New Year period when a full supply was maintained from 6 a.m. on 22nd till 9 p.m. the 24th January, these hours were maintained until 1st February when it was found necessary further to restrict the supply to ten hours per day (6 a.m.-11 a.m. and 4 p.m.-9 p.m.). A still further restriction to six hours per day was resorted to on 15th May but owing to the timely arrival of rain a reversion to ten hours per day was found possible five days later. On the 23rd May a constant supply was given which was maintained until the end of the year. During the year therefore a constant supply was maintained on 223 days as compared with 177 days in 1935.
A maximum storage of 2,392 million gallons was impounded in the new Jubilee Reservoir on the 8th of September but for constructional reasons some 300 million gallons had to be run to waste. The reservoir reached its maximum effective storage of 2,174 million gallons on 28th September the top water level then being 20-10″ below overflow.
2,377.32 million gallons were delivered from the Shing Mun Valley and the intakes at Smuggler's Pass through the Tunnels into the Reception and Byewash Reservoirs, but a percentage of this quantity could not be stored and ran to waste.
Q 24
79. Electric Lighting:-The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year was 681, an increase of thirty-six over the previous year.
A scheme for the improvement of lighting in Nathan Road is under consideration.
All traffic control lights were maintained in good order.
Expenditure
$39,454.87
80. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages:-Repairs of vary- ing magnitude were made to practically all Government buildings. Land slips occurred in cuttings on various roads. Telephone poles and lines in Kowloon were repaired.
Sand and silt were removed from nullahs at Mongkok, Argyle Street, Waterloo Road, King's Park, Gascoigne Road, Lo Lung Hang and Sung Wong Toi and from the storm water culvert on the north side of the Railway Yard at Hung Hom and catchpits in Cemetery Valley Nullah and at Waterloo Road-Argyle Street junction, etc.
Expenditure
$31,989.86
81. Maintenance of Water Works, Kowloon:-The year opened with the supply restricted to fifteen hours per day (6 a.m.-9 p.m.) and with the exception of the Chinese New Year period when a full supply was maintained from 6 a、m. on 22nd till 9 p.m. the 24th January, these hours were maintained until 1st February when it was found necessary further to restrict the supply to ten hours per day (6 a.m.- 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.-9 p.m.). A still further restriction to six hours per day was resorted to on 15th May but owing to the timely arrival of rain a reversion to ten hours per day was found possible five days later. On the 23rd May a constant supply was given which was maintained until the end of the year. During the year therefore a constant supply was maintained on 223 days as compared with 177 days in 1935.
A maximum storage of 2,392 million gallons was im- pounded in the new Jubilee Reservoir on the 8th of Septem- ber but for constructional reasons some 300 million gallons had to be run to waste. The reservoir reached its maximum effective storage of 2,174 million gallons on 28th September the top water level then being 20-10′′ below overflow.
2,377.32 million gallons were delivered from the Shing Mun Valley and the intakes at Smuggler's Pass through the Tunnels into the Reception and Byewash Reservoirs, but a percentage of this quantity could not be stored and ran to
waste.
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