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reclamation it will be necessary in any event for theso workshops to move olserhero as the arca on which thoy stond is partly required for roads and
Road
is partly privately ormed ground. Tood Lane at the foot of Morrison Hill provides a satisfactory site for a permanent sterc. A part of it is already available and building can proceed. It is unfort- unately not possible to give any reasonably precise estimato of the total cost of the completed store
as considerable site formation is still required and a level of considerable area has to be reduced sovers? foot through rock. The expenditure of the $70,000 will involve a commitment in folloring yours for the continuation of the work but the Director of Public Jorks informs me that while it is imposible as yot to be accurate, the total cost of the store should not exco.d 2 lakhs.
The expendituro of $75,000 for the resumpti- of the work connected with item 27, on page 81 - the Tai Hang Road, may be taken as evidence that the Government believes it is now in a position to attapt to return to the conditions of somo years ago and to carry out the development arrangements which were then contemplated, but have had perforce to be loft in aboyance.
On the Hong Kong sido, three other items call for special remark. The work of laying larger principal moins in the City which will incidentally onable a larger supply of water to be passed to the vost ond from our main reservoirs is being continued with all possible expedition, itan 58, pagc 83, and arrangements for more economical distribution are in contemplation under item 57, the installation of hydraulic
turbines and
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