CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 439

passengers to Suter or

-est the footpath.

alight

thy

the side rear -

The rest of the regulations speak for

them.

belver, and are ac obronely necessary in

Hong Kong to then would be in London.

Maintenance.

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14. If the Hong Kong kamways are well designed and constructed at first, the

labour and repense of their subsequent main

tenance will ope

In

be greatly diminished.

opcourse be greatly

Consequence however

Action

ty

of the mearing

the summer rains unceasing

attention will have to be paid bosh to the

permanent way and to the Macadamized

toast on sach side git, so as to keep a per fect concepondence

of to

level between the

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two . The maintenance of the tram andd

the maintenance of the road should de

on the Public Works Department.

Divided control will not conduce to the

roluc.

Convenience of the public who will be the sufferers by any disagreements between The authorities and the tramway Company as to the Sxlent or character of the repairs to

be done or the time when to do them. I

trust therefore it may be possible to leave the entire work of maintenance in Govern ment hands, the Company paying he lost of repairs to the permanent way and that

portion of the road which lies betracen

the road and Eighteen inches bewond on

Each side. Such an

rrangement would given by the Select Committee of the House of

be in accordance with the advice