Q 20
NEW KOWLOON,
81. Maintenance of Buildings:-Government buildings were kept in a good state of repair. Painting, colourwashing and repairs in accordance with the recurring programme were carried out to eighteen buildings, in addition to such repairs to other buildings as were found to be necessary.
The electrical installations were maintained in good order. 459 points in three buildings were tested and three inventories of electrical fittings issued and revised.
$7,928.61
Expenditure
82. Improvements to Buildings: The principal improvements carried out were: Lai Chi Kok European quarters mosquito proofing, Lai Chi Kok Cholera Hospital- provision of showers, new drainage and notice-boards; Lai Chi Kok Relief Hospital- new doors to wards; Kai Tak Aerodrome-ventilation to office roofs.
Expenditure
$6,783.01
83. Roads and Bridges (Maintenance and Improvements):—The surfaces of approximately 33 miles of roads were maintained in a satisfactory condition.
Particulars of the additional areas laid with improved surfacing were:-
Square yards. Surface dressing (tarpaint) 58,111 Surface dressing (tartops) 10,283 21" granolithic paving laid on footways 6,470 Slab paving laid on footways Nil New dry macadam surfacing New tarred macadam surfacing 35,77484. Maintenance of Telephones:-Lines and instruments were maintained in good order.
Expenditure
$512.20
85. Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, etc.:-Sewers, storm water drains, and trained nullahs were cleansed, repaired, and maintained in good condition. Open channels and nullahs were cleansed by the Sanitary Department. Sand deposits, as they accumulated, were removed.
Expenditure
$5,706.77
86. Street Lighting:-The total number of electric street lamps in use at the end of the year was 585, an increase of 2 over the previous year.
Expenditure
$27,083.06
87. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages: The typhoon of 2nd September, 1937, washed away approximately 200 feet of nullah walling, and damaged two nullah bridges and the seaplane slipway at the Kai Tak Airport. Repairs were put in hand and completed during 1938. A new 6 K.W. floodlight was installed on the north side of the landing ground to replace the floodlight destroyed in the typhoon.
A sea wall was constructed on piled and rubble foundations at Tai Wan, where the same typhoon had swept away a length of about 360 feet of pitching. Repairs were also effected to a pitched slope at Ngau Chi Wan.
Sand and silt were cleared and removed to a dump from the Kai Tak Airport nullahs, and other nullahs, catchpits and channels throughout New Kowloon.
Expenditure
$49,257.98
Q 20
NEW KOWLOON,
81. Maintenance of Buildings:-Government buildings were kept in a good state of repair. Painting, colourwashing and repairs in accordance with the recurring programme were carried out to eighteen buildings, in addition to such repairs to other buildings as were found to be necessary.
The electrical installations were maintained in good order. 459 points in three buildings were tested and three inventories of electrical fittings issued and revised.
$7.928.61
Expenditure
82. Improvements to Buildings: The principal improvements carried out were: Lai Chi Kok European quarters mosquito proofing, Lai Chi Kok Cholera Hospital- provision of showers, new drainage and notice-boards; Lai Chi Kok Relief Hospital- new doors to wards; Kai Tak Aerodrome-ventilation to office roofs.
Expenditure
$6,783.01
83. Roads and Bridges (Maintenance and Improvements):—The surfaces of approximately 33 miles of roads were maintained in a satisfactory condition.
Particulars of the additional areas laid with improved surfacing were:-
Square yards.
Surface dressing (tarpaint)
58,111
Surface dressing (tartops)
10,283
21" granolithic paving laid on footways
6,470
Slab paving laid on footways
Nil
New dry macadam surfacing
New tarred macadam surfacing
35,774
12,627
$29.943.69
Expenditure
84. Maintenance of Telephones:-Lines and instruments were maintained in good order.
Expenditure
$512.20
85. Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, etc.:-Sewers, storm water drains, and trained nullahs were cleansed, repaired, and maintained in good condition. Open channels and nullahs were cleansed by the Sanitary Department. Sand deposits, as they accumulated, were removed.
Expenditure
$5,706.77
86. Street Lighting:-The total number of electric street lamps in use at the end of the year was 585, an increase of 2 over the previous year.
Expenditure
$27,083.06
87. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages: The typhoon of 2nd September, 1937, washed away approximately 200 feet of nullah walling, and damaged two nullah bridges and the seaplane slipway at the Kai Tak Airport. Repairs were put in hand and completed during 1938. A new 6 K.W. floodlight was installed on the north side of the landing ground to replace the floodlight destroyed in the typhoon.
A sea wall was constructed on piled and rubble foundations at Tai Wan, where the same typhoon had swept away a length of about 360 feet of pitching. Repairs were also effected to a pitched slope at Ngau Chi Wan.
Sand and silt were cleared and removed to a dump from the Kai Tak Airport nullahs, and other nullahs, catchpits and channels throughout New Kowloon.
Expenditure
$49,257.98
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