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52. Gas Lighting, City, and Suburbs and Hill District.- The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year in the City and its precincts was 1,774, an increase of 59 over the figures for the previous year, and in the Hill District, 231, the same figures as last year. The fitting of Reflectors to the Gas Lamps in Hong Kong District was undertaken by the Hong Kong & China Gas Company without expense to Government-and resulted in better illumination.
In the interests of economy, a number of lamps, 99 in all, in Chatham Path, Craigmin Road, Kotewall Road, Magazine Gap Road, Monmouth Path, Po Shan Road, Peak Road, Victoria Road, and Watson Road, were, under arrangement with the Hong Kong & China Gas Company, extinguished at midnight throughout the year, instead of at the times specified in the Gas Street Lighting Agreement.
Expenditure
$121,576.12
53. Electric Lighting, City, Hill District and Shaukiwan.— Traffic Control Lights in City, forty-four in number, were main- tained in working order.
The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year in the City, Outside City and Peak Districts was as follows:-
Street lamps, etc.
Pier Lamps
Lamps in Public Latrines
773
44
112
In addition to these, the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co. of Hong Kong, provide ten lamps, each having a cluster of three 100 C.P. incandescent lamps, for lighting the road ad- jacent to their property.
An arrangement, similar to that made with the Hong Kong and China Gas Co. for the extinguishing at midnight of a num- ber of street lamps, was made with the Hong Kong Electric Co. The following were the roads affected:-Bowen Road, Brewin Path, Homestead Path, Lugard Road, Magazine Gap Road, Mount Davis Road, Mount Cameron Road, Pokfulam Road, Sassoon Road, Stubbs Road and Tregunter Path. lamps came under the arrangement.
Expenditure
In all, 318
$68,635.06
54. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damage-Hong Kong.-Follow- ing the typhoons repairs of varying magnitude, chiefly confined to roofs and joinery, were carried out under this head to the following buildings:-No. 1 Police Station, No. 2 Police Station, Wong Nei Cheong Gap Police Station, Gough Hill
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Police Station, Homestead Flats and Quarters, Colonial Secret- ariat, New Fire Station, Harbour Office, Volunteer Headquarters, New Government Offices, Magazine Gap Police Station, Victoria Hospital, Queen's Gardens, 155, 275, 276, 361, 404, 407, The Peak, Bacteriological Institute, Happy Valley Quarters, Wancha School, Old Seamen's Institute Johnston Road, M.I. Stables, Street Boys' Club and No. 7 Police Station, Mental Hospital, Shek Tong Tsui Market, Central Police Station, Stanley Police Station, Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Telegraph Station, Kennedy Town Hospital, Government Civil Hospital Staff Quarters, and Victoria Gaol.
Sand and boulders were removed from nullahs at Wongnei- cheong, Sookunpoo, and North Point; storm water drains were cleansed at Aberdeen Docks, Aberdeen and at Shaukiwan East near the Police Station; and the flushing dam at Staunton Creek, Aberdeen, was also cleansed of sand and repairs effected.
Following the typhoons, repairs were carried out to the fol- lowing piers-Blake, Harbour Department, Jubilee Street Fire Float, Sai Wan Ho and Shaukiwan, and to the Police Searching Sheds on the Ping On, Tai Hing, Tung On and Yuen On Wharves.
Expenditure
$16,935.14
55. Maintenance of City and Hill District Water Works.- The year opened with a ten hours supply daily, the hours of supply being 6-11 a.in. and 4-9 p.m. With the exception of three days at Chinese New Year (25th-27th January) when a constant supply was maintained, the ten hour supply re- mained in operation until 30th April, when the total storage in the island reservoirs had fallen to 680 million gallons. The rain- fall during the first four months of the year had been practically negligible, and further restrictions had become inevitable. On 1st May the hours of supply were reduced to six per diem (6-9 a.m. and 5-8 p.m.) and this arrangement continued until 1st July when a constant supply was resumed. As the normal rains did not fall in August it was found necessary to return to a daily supply of ten hours on 26th August, and on 9th September, when the total island storage was only 1,458 million gallons, the hours were reduced to six daily. Storage began to increase about the middle of September and the daily supply hours were extended to eight on 21st September, whilst on 9th November a further increase to ten hours, which remained in force until the close of the year, took place. During the year, therefore, a 24 hours supply was maintained for 59 days only. At the end of the year there were 63 street fountains in use.
The cross harbour pipe gave no trouble during the year and the leakage was negligible.
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