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cases destroyed. The most serious consequences arising

from this will be the delay in carrying out the works. This

applies more especially to the Tytam Water-Works, the

materials for which have to be conveyed by junk a distance

of about 15 miles round the Island. The losses incurred on

works in hand fall on the various contractors unless it

is eventually decided to give them some compensation on

account of the demolition of their mataheds etc.

25.

Of the Government Piers on the

Victoria side Blake Pier and Queen's Statue Pier lost their

Piers and sea-

-walls.)

matshed coverings and sustained minor injuries while a

bamboo pier just West of the Western boundary of the Naval

Yard was washed away and a wooden one at Kennedy Town lost

its planking. The Praya East wall and a stone jetty jutting

out from it had stones washed out of them in places and a

length of about 200 feet of the rubble sea slope at

Kennedy Town was destroyed. At Kowloon the Police Pier

at Tsim Sha Tsui was damaged and a steel swing bridge at

the entrance to the Tsim Sha Tsui Police Basin, which it

was attempted to open during the storm was wrenched from

its bearings and thrown into the sea. A wooden pier on the

Western side of the Kowloon Peninsula, which had been let,

was