52. Maintenance of Telephones including all Cables:-The whole system of communication, including main and sub-exchanges, submarine and land cables, aerial routes, instruments and office intercommunicating systems, were maintained in good order. Alterations and improvements were effected on various existing lines. Bell and telephone circuits were rearranged in various government buildings. When Cable and Wireless, Ltd., took over the Government commercial W. I. services early in 1938 a control cable was laid from their offices in Connaught Road to connect with the Government control cable.
Expenditure
$12,733.86
53. Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, etc: Sewers, storm water drains, and trained nullahs generally were cleansed, repaired and maintained in good condition. Open nullahs and channels in the City of Victoria and in Shaukiwan district were cleansed by the Sanitary Department. Automatic flushing tanks were operated during periods of low tide. Sand deposits were cleared as they occurred. Septic tanks at Lugard Road, Repulse Bay, Deep Water Bay and Farm Lots Nos. 29 and 30 Pokfulam were periodically sludged. The septic tank and its pumping plant on the foreshore at North Point were maintained in working order. Many defective traps, gullies, gratings, etc., were renewed.
Expenditure
$24,634.06
54. Street Lighting:-The total number of gas lamps in use at the end of the year in the city and its precincts was 1821, and in the hill district, 258.
An improvement to the existing lighting in Hennessy Road and at the junction of Queen's Road and Arsenal Street was made during the year by the installation of twenty-six gaseous discharge lamps of four hundred watts each.
In the interests of economy an arrangement was made with the Hong Kong and China Gas Company under which ninety-five lamps—in Barker Road, Belchers Street, Bluff Path, Craigmin Road, Gough Hill Road, Kotewall Road, Magazine Gap Road, Monmouth Path, May Road, Peak Road, Po Shan Road, Victoria Road, and Watson Road were extinguished at midnight instead of at the times specified in the gas street lighting agreement.
A similar arrangement was made with the Hong Kong Electric Company, affecting 329 lamps on Borrett Road, Bowen Road, Brewin Path, Clovelly Path, Harlech Road, Homestead Path, Lugard Road, Magazine Gap Road, Middle Gap Road, Mount Cameron Lower Road, Mount Davis Road, Pokfulam Road, Sassoon Road, Stubbs Road, Tung Tau Wan Road, and Wanchai Gap. A further eighteen lamps in Tregunter Path were extinguished at 2.00 a.m.
The total number of electric street lamps in use at the end of the year in the city, outside city and Peak districts was as follows:-
Street lamps, etc. 855 Pier lamps 52 Public latrine lamps. 142New lamps were installed and lighted at the cost of Government to replace fifteen lamps which had been provided and maintained by the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company for lighting the roads adjacent to their property and the scavenging lanes behind their Chinese staff quarters between Tai Cheong Street and Tai On Street, Shaukiwan.
Electric traffic control lights, seventy-five in number, and traffic beacon lights, twenty-eight in number, were maintained in good order.
Expenditure
$189,885.11
52. Maintenance of Telephones including all Cables:-The whole system of communication, including main and sub-exchanges, submarine and land cables, aerial routes, instruments and office intercommunicating systems, were maintained in good order. Alterations and improvements were effected on various existing lines. Bell and telephone circuits were rearranged in various government buildings. When Cable and Wireless, Ltd., took over the Government commercial W. I. services early in 1938 a control cable was laid from their offices in Connaught Road to connect with the Government control calle.
Expenditure
$12,733.86
53. Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, etc: Sewers, storm water drains, and trained nullahs generally were cleansed, repaired and maintained in good condition. Open nullahs and channels in the City of Victoria and in Shaukiwan district were cleansed by the Sanitary Department. Automatic flushing tanks were operated during periods of low tide. Sand deposits were cleared as they occurred. Septic tanks at Lugard Road, Repulse Bay, Deep Water Bay and Farm Lots Nos. 29 and 30 Pokfulam were periodically sludged. The septic tank and its pumping plant on the foreshore at North Point were maintained in working order. Many defective traps, gullies, gratings, etc., were renewed.
Expenditure
$24,634.06
54. Street Lighting:-The total number of gas lamps in use at the end of the year in the city and its precincts was 1821, and in the hill district, 258.
An improvement to the existing lighting in Hennessy Road and at the junction of Queen's Road and Arsenal Street was inade during the year by the installation of twenty six gaseous discharge lamps of four hundred watts each.
In the interests of economy an arrangement was made with the Hong Kong and China Gas Company under which ninety five lamps-in Barker Road, Belchers Street, Bluff Path, Craigmin Road, Gough Hill Road, Kotewall Road, Magazine Gap Road, Monmouth Path, May Road, Peak Road, Po Shan Road, Victoria Road, and Watson Road were extinguished at midnight instead of at the times specified in the gas street lighting agreement.
A similar arrangement was made with the Hong Kong Electric Company, affecting 329 lamps on Borrett Road, Bowen Road, Brewin Path, Clovelly Path, Harlech Road, Homestead Path, Lugard Road, Magazine Gap Road, Middle Gap Road, Mount Cameron Lower Road, Mount Davis Road, Pokfulam Road, Sassoon Road, Stubbs Road, Tung Tau Wan Road, and Wanchai Gap. A further eighteen lamps in Tregunter Path were extinguished at 2.00 a.m.
The total number of electric street lamps in use at the end of the year in the city, outside city and Peak districts was as follows:-
Street lamps, etc.
Pier lamps
Public latrine lamps.
855
52
142
New lamps were installed and lighted at the cost of Government to replace fifteen lamps which had been provided and maintained by the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company for lighting the roads adjacent to their property and the scavenging lanes behind their Chinese staff quarters between Tai Cheong Street and Tai On Street, Shaukiwan.
Electric traffic control lights, seventy-five in number, and traffic beacon lights, twenty-eight in number, were maintained in good order.
Expenditure
$189,885.11
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