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branch road from the latter place to the populous group of

villages known as Kam Tin.

DRAINAGE.

For the programme of nullah training

and miscellaneous drainage works which have been particularis-

-ed in these Estimates I would refer you generally to my

remarks to the Council. The amount under the former head

exceeds the provision for this year by $5,000.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The increase of $4,200 in the original

estimate for the Improvement of ip Liu Village is due as

explained in my Despatch No. 368 of 21st. October forwarding

$2

Financial Kinute 42 to the payment of compensation to parties

whose land and buildings have been resumed. It is proposed to

spend $2,000 on the raising to a proper level a portion of the

area reclaimed in 1908 from the Fish Pond at Taipo with a view.

to its scle as building sites, for which application has al-

-ready been made. The diversion of the Taipo stream which will

entail the construction of a causeway and bridge at a cost of

$10,500, is designed to prepare the way for the future

reclamation of an area, 24 acres in extent, of valuable land

in