CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 428

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the extension of the 100 foot road to the old frontier line

will involve no further heavy engineering work nor resump-

-tions of property. The improvement at a cost of $6,800 of

telegraphic communications between the Harbour Office and

the Stations from which the approaches of Ships to the

Harbour are notified to it was approved in your Despatch

No. 154 dated the 4th. August, 1905.

Under Drainage Work, a commence-

-ment is to be made in the erection of the new flushing

tanks dealt with in Sessional Paper No. 31 of 1905, of

which copies are being forwarded to you under cover of my

Despatch No. 241 of the 5th. instant.

The new Miscellaneous Works for

which provision is made include Electric Fans for Queen's

College ($2,500) required for the comfort ofthe Masters

giving instruction there, the erection of permanent survey

marks for traverse survey points in the New Territories

($11,000) to which I referred in the first paragraph of my

Despatch No. 420 dated the 19th. December, 1904, the re-

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-placing of Kowloon City timber pier, no longer considered

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to be safe, by one of reinforced concrete, and the provi-

-sion of piers of similar construction in connection with

the new Gunpowder Depôt at Green Island and Harbour Office

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