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RAILWAYS, CANALS, ROADS, TELEGRAPHS, AND TELEPHONES.

year,

Each Line or Company should be separately entered.

The particulars required should be extracted from the accounts for the last completed

the date of which should be stated.

If possible, the total tonnage and passenger (mileage should be given for the railways.

For roads, particulars of total lengths should be given.

For canals, the same particulars as in the case of railways and telegraphs, as far as applicable, should be stated.

Terminal Station of each.

Whether constructe), owned, or worked by Government, or by Private Body,

Length open for traffic.

Gauge of Rail- way or Width of Canal,

Roads and Streets,

Kowloon-Canton Railway, British Section, (1)

Telegraph and Telephone Lines, Route,

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Conductors,

Multiple-core Cables crossing the Harbour,

Green Island Cable crossing Sulphur Channel,

Wagian Cables, two

Under-ground Cable,

Kap Sing Mun Pass Cable,

Chung Chau Channel Cables, (2)

Telegraph Pipe Lines,

Telegraph Land Cables,

Iron Troughs underground containing 6 twin

Core Cables,

Cader-ground Cables,

Aerial Telegraph Lines,

Telegraph Cables crossing the Harbour, Telephone Routes, Aerial (Pole Route),

Under-ground Armoured Cables (No duct

trench),

Under-ground Cable in Ducts,

Under-ground Ducts,

Owned by Government,

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377 milea. 21.76 miles.

4' 8}*

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192 miles. 4,460 miles. 2,100 yds. 820 yards. 7 miles.

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73.25 miles. 1,800 yards.

3,100 yards.

1-865 nauts.

Owned by the Eastern Extension

Australasia and China Tele- graph Company.

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Owned by the Great Northern

Telegraph Company.

5-916 Dauts.

1.947 miles.

6-6 miles.

Owned by the Eastern Extension 22.13 miles (line)

and Great Northern Telegraph 60-39 Companies.

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(wire)

3 nauts.

Owned by the Hong Kong Tele-

29.1 miles.

phone Company.

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169.9 miles.

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50-01 miles.

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61.5 miles.

Cables crossing the Harbour,

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1.98 miles.

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Cables crossing the Harbour Trunk,

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1.12 miles.

Conductors, Aerial, single line :—

Iron Wire 295.031

Bronze Wire

303.66600.694 cir. miles

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1209-47 miles.

Conductors Submarine, Single Line :—

313.56 çir. miles

Dio.

803.6 miles.

Conductors Submarine, Single Line :-

29-19 cir. miles

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58.38 miles.

Conductors Underground, Single Line :—

L. C.

29927-29 cir. miles | 36695.47

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73390-94 miles.

Armoured

6768-14 #

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Conductors Covered Distribution, Single Line:--

748-27 eir. miles.

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1496.54 miles.

Conductors Aerial Cable, Single Line :—

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12-4 miles.

6-2 cir. miles.

1.-Main Line.

Construction Expenditure up to 31st December

1936

Special Expenditure for the year 1936 chargeable

to Capital

(1)

$20,448,395.75

l'assenger and Miscellaneous Receipts 1936

13,043.55

$20,462,339.30

Goods Receipts, 1936

$1,186,931.26

68,537.91

$1,245,469,16

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