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for the Assistant District Officer was completed. A staircase from the ball-room to the grounds of Government House was constructed. A road from Ma Tau Kok to Tai Shek Ku was completed; the level of Des Vœux Road, Kowloon, (re-named Chatham Road,) was raised; and arrangements were made for the construction of a new road traversing Marine Lot 29 from Queen's Road East to Praya East. The old fish pond at Tai Wo Shi (N.T.) was filled in. The Albany Filter Beds were reconstructed and extended, and the filtering area increased from 3,246 to 4,945 square yards. Extensive resumptions of land at Kowloon Point were effected with a view to providing a site for the terminal station of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. Public latrines were constructed at Tai Kok Tsui, in Chuk Hing Lane, at Wong Neichong Village and adjoining Kennedy Road to the westward of the Peak Tramway. Ping Shan-Shataukok Road surveyed and part constructed.
Legislation.-46 Ordinances (32 amendment) passed. The principal matters dealt with were-opium, liquor, trade marks, railways, and the construction of a harbour of refuge at Mongkoktsui.
1910.
(Sir F. H. May, K.C.M.G., administered from 30.4.10 to 31.10.10).
Principal Events.-All opium divans in H.K. and the N.T. closed (1/3). Opium Farm let for 3 years at $1,183,200 p.a. (1/3). H.B.M.'s Government make the Colony a grant of £9,000 for the year 1910 on account of loss of opium revenue. Foundation stone of H.K. University laid by Sir F. D. Lugard (16/3). Endowment fund of University stood at $1,239,828 (exclusive of $96,460 promised) on 31st Dec. Considerable scarcity of water owing to dryness of the season, but heavy rains in June removed anxiety. Plague cases decreased to 25, the lowest since 1897. Trouble at
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for the Assistant District Officer was completed. A staircase from the ball-room to the grounds of Govern- ment House was constructed. A road from Ma Tau Kok to Tai Shek Ku was completed; the level of Des Vœux Road, Kowloon, (re-named Chatham Road,) was raised; and arrangements were made for the construction of a new road traversing Marine Lot 29 from Queen's Road East to Praya East. The old fish pond at Tai Wo Shi (N.T.) was filled in. The Albany Filter Beds were reconstructed and extended, and the filtering area increased from 3,246 to 4,945 square yards. Extensive resumptions of land at Kowloon Point were effected with a view to providing a site for the terminal station of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. Public latrines were structed at Tai Kok Tsui, in Chuk Hing Lane, at Wong neichong Village and adjoining Kennedy Road to the westward of the Peak Tramway. Ping Shan-Shataukok Road surveyed and part constructed.
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Legislation.-46 Ordinances (32 amendment) passed. The principal matters dealt with were-opium, liquor, trade marks, railways, and the construction of a harbour of refuge at Mongkoktsui.
1910.
(Sir F. H. May, K.C.M.G., administered from 30.4.10 to 31.10.10).
Principal Events.-All opium divans in H.K, and the N.T. closed (1/3). Opium Farm let for 3 years at $1,183,200 p.a. (1/3). H.B.M.'s Government make the Colony a grant of £9,000 for the year 1910 on account of loss of opium revenue. Foundation stone of H.K. University laid by Sir F. D. Lugard (16/3). Endowment fund of University stood at $1,239,828 (exclusive of $96,460 promised) on 31st Dec. Con- siderable scarcity of water owing to dryness of the season, but heavy rains in June removed anxiety. Plague cases decreased to 25, the lowest since 1897. Trouble at
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