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is also maintained. Both these wharves are connected by special siding with: the railway.
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With cargo delivered from transit godown, the system is for consignees to obtain Agents countersignature to their Bills of Lading, after which the Bills of Lading are stamped off for delivery at the Godown Office, and con- signees, go to the godowns where their cargo is delivered to them, seven days' free storage (not counting date of arrival) being allowed, after which overtime is charged. Only a portion of a steamer's cargo is taken direct by consignees from transit godowns, the balance usually being transferred to storage godowns under instructions from the consignees, the greater part of the merchandise being held under lien to the various banks. Warrants are issued for such cargo and the merchants issue Delivery Orders as and when required.
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A well-made but steeply graded mountain road leads up, from the centre of the city to the summit of Victoria Peak, with numerous other paths branch- ing off from it at Victoria Gap along the adjoining hills. A tramway, on the wire rope system, runs to the Victoria Gap, the lower terminus being close to St. John's Cathedral. It was opened to traffic on the 30th May, 1888. Passengers can alight at the Kennedy, Bowen, May, and Plantation Roads, where stations are provided for their accommodation. The Military acquired the commodious Mount Austin Hotel at Victoria Gap for the purpose of a sanatorium in 1897. The Peak Club is domiciled in a heat building at Plun- kett Gap near the point of junction with Chamberlain Road and Mount Kellett road. It was erected in 1902 and enlarged in 1912 by the addition of a second storey. The Peak Church, an unpretending structure after the similitude of a jelly mould, was opened for worship in June, 1993. Extensive ac- commodation for visitors is afforded at the Peak Hotel. The Victoria (Jubilee) Hospital occupying a breezy site on Barker Road, was opened by Sir Henry Blake on November 7th, 1903, partly as the result of public subscription. A new block was added to it in 1923. Yet another hospital, named "The Matilda Hospital," is situated at the southern corner of Mount Kellett. It was built at a cost of about $350,000 and opened in 1908. The expense of erection and maintenance are borne by the estate of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, who devoted the bulk of his fortune to provide such an institution for the benefit of persons needing it who are of European or American birth. A further hospital, the War Memorial Nursing Home, was opened in 1939 on Mount Kellett Road.
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The road from Victoria Gap westward leads, to Victoria Peak, which is 1,823 feet above the sea and rises almost abruptly behind the centre of the city of Victoria. On the summit is placed the flagstaff, from which the approach of the mails and other vessels is signalled. Not far from the summit: of the Peak, on a most commanding site, stands Mountain Lodge, the summer residence of H. E. the Governor, which was erected in 1901. Another road. northward from Victoria Gap and known as Lugard Road was completed in: 1920, and, with Harlech Road, encircles Victoria Peak. From there a road leads down to the West of the City. Another road in a directly opposite direction leads from Victoria Gap to Magazine Gap, where a second hill village of foreign residences has been formed on the southern side of the hills at an area of about 900 feet above the sea. There is also a road from Victoria Gap down to Pokfulum and Aberdeen, and at the side of this, about half a mile from the Gap, a small granite cross has been erected. This bears the inscription:"W. W. H., 1869" and marks the place where Mr. Holworthy, an Officer of the Ordnance Department, was murdered and robbed. The Peak roads are lighted by electric lamps.
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A second road to the Peak distriot was completed in 1922. Starting from Morrison Hill Road, it runs from Happy Valley and traverses the face of the hills to Wanchai Gap and Magazine Gap to the south of the cemetery. From Wanchai Gap, also, it has been continued, along the southern face of the
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