Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL.
Castle Peak Bay and connected with the road to Ping Shan and Au Tau.
The training of some of the nullahs between Bowen Road and Magazine Gap to the eastward of the Military Hospital was completed, and a considerable amount of such work was executed to the south of Magazine Gap in the valley below the Military Sanatorium, the military authorities sharing the cost of the latter work. A considerable length of the nullah at No. 12 Bridge, Shaukiwan, was also trained and the stream past Pokfulam Village was channelled and otherwise improved. In Kowloon, an extension of the nullah in Waterloo Road to the north of No. 4 Railway Bridge was carried out. Underground tanks were constructed at the junction of Arbuthnot Road and Wyndham Street and in Stone Nullah Lane for the purpose of flushing the low-level sewers, the necessary connections with the sewerage system being made. The laying of a sewer in Cragmin Road to intercept the drainage from houses on the southern slopes of Mount Gough, &c. was undertaken and connections with a number of the houses were carried out. Extensive drainage works were also executed in Shaukiwan West and Shamshuipo.
The reclamations at the end of Gillies Avenue, Hunghom, and for the market and slaughter house at Aberdeen were completed; the reconstruction and raising of Tai Hang Village was continued; similar work of a more extensive nature at Ap Liu Village, near Shamshuipo, was undertaken and the reclamation of the area in front of Kowloon Marine Lots 29 to 31, at Yaumati, was begun.
The work of providing scavenging lanes was continued, compensation being paid where necessary.
The Tytam East or Mount Parker Catchwater was extensively repaired or reconstructed, and a considerable extension of the Shaukiwan Water Works, for the purpose of augmenting the supply to that village, was undertaken. An 8" water main was substituted for the 3" and 4" previously existing from Percival Street to the Asiatic Petroleum Company's Works (Marine Lot 277).
Extensive illuminations of the principal public buildings were carried out on the occasion of the Coronation of His Majesty King George V.
The total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $1,094,817.93 and on works annually recurrent $486,940.80.
Several typhoons of considerable severity occurred, one of these, which occurred in August, being accompanied by a severe rainstorm, 15 inches of rain falling in two days and causing considerable damage to roads, retaining walls, &c.
Railway.
Little construction work was carried out during 1911 with the exception of building the workshops, erecting machinery, and pitching the slopes of No. 1 Cutting. Nothing was done towards the building of the terminal station at Kowloon, but negotiations were carried on for the acquisition of the necessary land and it is anticipated that the work will be put in hand at an early date. A two-foot gauge branch line from Fan Ling to Sha Tau Kok, a distance of 7.1 miles, was commenced in May, 1911, and three-
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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL.
Castle Peak Bay and connected with the road to Ping Shan and Au Tau.
The training of some of the nullahs between Bowen Road and Magazine Gap to the eastward of the Military Hospital was com- pleted, and a considerable amount of such work was executed to the south of Magazine Gap in the valley below the Military Sana- torium, the military authorities sharing the cost of the latter work. A considerable length of the nullah at No. 12 Bridge, Shaukiwan, was also trained and the stream past Pokfulam Village was channelled and otherwise improved. In Kowloon, an extension of the nullah in Waterloo Road to the north of No. 4 Railway Bridge was carried out. Underground tanks were constructed at the junction of Arbuthnot Road and Wyndham Street and in Stone Nullah Lane for the purpose of flushing the low-level sewers, the necessary connections with the sewerage system being made. The laying of a sewer in Cragmin Road to intercept the drainage from houses on the southern slopes of Mount Gough, &c. was undertaken and connections with a number of the houses were carried out. Extensive drainage works were also executed in Shaukiwan West and Shamshuipo.
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The reclamations at the end of Gillies Avenue, Hunghom, and for the market and slaughter house at Aberdeen were completed; the reconstruction and raising. of Tai Hang Village was con- tinued; similar work of a more extensive nature at Ap Liu Village, near Shamshuipo, was undertaken and the reclamation of the area in front of Kowloon Marine Lots 29 to 31, at Yaumati, was begun.
The work of providing scavenging lanes was continued, com- pensation being paid where necessary.
The Tytam East or Mount Parker Catchwater was extensively repaired or reconstructed, and a considerable extension of the Shaukiwan Water Works, for the purpose of augmenting the supply to that village, was undertaken. An 8" water main was.. substituted for the 3" and 4" previously existing from Percival Street to the Asiatic Petroleum Company's Works (Marine Lot 277).
Extensive illuminations of the principal public buildings were carried out on the occasion of the Coronation of His Majesty King George V.
The total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $1,094,817.93 and on works annually recurrent $486,940.80.
Several typhoons of considerable severity occurred, one of these, which occurred in August, being accompanied by a severe rain- storm, 15 inches of rain falling in two days and causing con- siderable damage to roads, retaining walls, &c.
Railway.
Little construction work was carried out during 1911 with the exception of building the workshops, erecting machinery, and pitching the slopes of No. 1 Cutting. Nothing was done towards- the building of the terminal station at Kowloon, but negotiations were carried on for the acquisition of the necessary land and it. is anticipated that the work will be put in hand at an early date. A two-foot gauge branch line from Fan Ling to Sha Tau Kok, a distance of 71 miles, was commenced in May, 1911, and three-
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