CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 206

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is the period when they are generally experienced.

We

also gather that on several occasions throughout a year

warnings are issued that a typhoon is in existence, but

many of them do not cross the Colony, and therefore their

ill effects are not experienced by the shipping and native

craft in Hong Kong Harbour.

We have been furnished with cross sections of

certain sea walla which were damaged by the typhoon of

16.

Damage

by the typhoon

of September

1906.

Description

of proposed

works.

September 1906, from which it appears that these struc -

tures were but ill adapted, from their mode of construc -

and con

-

tion, to withstand the stroke of typhoon seas,

sequently the injury they sustained is not a matter of

surprise. These walle were mostly located along the sea

margin of Mongkoktaui, and were thus open to the same

tea

action as will fall upon the proposed sheltering Break

water, although, in consequence of the walls being in

shallow water, the wave stroke on the contemplated

Breakwater will be of greater intensity.

17.

As we have previously stated, the annexed plan

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