# 1904-1919
# HONG KONG, 1911
## V.-PUBLIC WORKS.
### 209
### 15
Of the important works in progress, the Post Office was completed by the middle of the year and the following departments were accommodated on three floors of the building: -Post Office, Treasury, Registrar-General's Department, Sanitary Department, Education Department, the District Office for the South of the New Territories, and the Audit Department. The extensive basement was partly utilized for postal purposes and partly for the storage of materials required by the Sanitary Department. A fourth floor, which is intended to provide for future expansion, remains unoccupied; but it has been decided to let it for offices in the meanwhile.
The Law Courts were practically completed. Substantial progress was made with the Mongkoktsui Breakwater, but all the work executed was invisible, being below low water level. A contract for the reconstruction of the old Western Market was let in September, and fair progress with the foundations had been made by the close of the year.
The following buildings were completed:-Kowloon Market; additions to No. 2 Police Station; Staff Quarters, Kennedy Town Hospital; Police Station, Ts'ün Wan; reconstruction of Government Pavilions; Hospital at the Quarantine Station, Lai Chi Kok; workshops and sheds for ambulances at the City Disinfecting Station; coal shed, Tai Po; latrines in Mee Lun Lane and Rutter Street; and a trough closet in Queen's Road West under the ramp leading to the Government Civil Hospital.
The following building works were in erection:-Sanitary office in Wantsai District; additional storey and extensions, Yaumati English School; market and slaughter house, Aberdeen; stables, Yaumati Disinfecting Station; quarters for searchers, Imports and Exports Office; lighthouse and quarters, Kap Sing Island; an extension of the Maternity Hospital; and the reconstruction of coolie quarters at the City Slaughter Houses to admit of the provision of further accommodation for slaughtering pigs.
The diversion of Wongneichong Road past Inland Lot 1698 was completed and extended northwards to join the permanent alignment of that section of the road which had previously been formed. The area formerly occupied by No. 2 Tank was filled in. A path from Bowen Road to May Road, bifurcating towards the latter road, was completed, and paths from Boundary Path to Kennedy Road and from Chamberlain Road to Plantation Road were in progress.
A diversion of Bonham Road to admit of an extension of Inland Lot 754 was also in progress, the necessary works being executed at the expense of the lessees of the lot mentioned. A road to the site of a proposed Japanese Crematorium in Sookunpoo Valley was completed.
In the New Territories, the sections of road extending from Ping Shan to Au Tau and from San Tin to Au Ha Gap were completed. As it was decided to utilize the last-named section for a light railway, to extend from Fan Ling railway station to Sha Tau Kok, the necessary extension of the road to the latter place was abandoned, a track for the light railway taking its place. The construction of this track and the laying of the light railway were carried out by the Railway Administration.
A pier was constructed in ...
1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1911
V.-PUBLIC WORKS.
209
15
Of the important works in progress, the Post Office was com- pleted by the middle of the year and the following departments were accommodated on three floors of the building: -Post Office, Treasury, Registrar-General's Department, Sanitary Department, Education Department, the District Office for the South of the New Territories, and the Audit Department. The extensive basement was partly utilized for postal purposes and partly for the storage of materials required by the Sanitary Department. A fourth floor, which is intended to provide for future expansion, remains unoccupied; but it has been decided to let it for offices in the meanwhile. "The Law Courts were practically completed. Sub- stantial progress was made with the Mongkoktsui Breakwater, but all the work executed was invisible, being below low water level. A contract for the reconstruction of the old Western Market was let in September, and fair progress with the founda- tions had been made by the close of the year.
The following buildings were completed:-Kowloon Market; additions to No. 2 Police Station; Staff Quarters, Kennedy Town Hospital; Police Station, Ts'ün Wan; reconstruction of Govern- ment Pavilions; Hospital at the Quarantine Station, Lai Chi Kok; workshops and sheds for ambulances at the City Disinfect- ing Station; coal shed, Tai Po; latrines in Mee Lun Lane and Rutter Street; and a trough closet in Queen's Road West under the ramp leading to the Government Civil Hospital. The follow- ing building works were in erection:-Sanitary office in Wantsai District; additional storey and extensions, Yaumati English School; market and slaughter house, Aberdeen; stables, Yaumati Disinfecting Station; quarters for searchers, Imports and Exports Office; lighthouse and quarters, Kap Sing Island; an extension of the Maternity Hospital; and the reconstruction of coolie quarters at the City Slaughter Houses to admit of the provision of further accommodation for slaughtering pigs.
The diversion of Wongneichong Road past Inland Lot 1698 was completed and extended northwards to join the permanent alignment of that section of the road which had previously been formed. The area formerly occupied by No. 2 Tank was filled in. A path from Bowen Road to May Road, bifurcating towards the latter road, was completed, and paths from Boundary Path to Kennedy Road and from Chamberlain Road to Plantation Road were in progress. A diversion of Bonham Road to admit of an extension of Inland Lot 754 was also in progress, the neces- sary works being executed at the expense of the lessees of the lot mentioned. A road to the site of a proposed Japanese Crema- torium in Sookunpoo Valley was completed. In the New Territories, the sections of road extending from Ping Shan to Au Tau and from San Tin to Au Ha Gap were completed. As it was decided to utilize the last-named section for a light railway, to extend from Fan Ling railway station to Sha Tau Kok, the necessary extension of the road to the latter place was abandoned, a track for the light railway taking its place. The construction of this track and the laying of the light railway were carried out by the Railway Administration. A pier was constructed in
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