503
With regard to the last-mentioned item, advantage was taken of the building having fallen into a condition of disrepair to effect the resumption of it and pull it down, thus admitting light and air into Chung Wo Lane. The cost of demolition amounted to $150.
82. Insanitary Property Resumption. As it had not been found possible to make provision in the Estimates for any new resumption scheme, the expenditure under this head was confined to the completion of the Mee Lun Lane Scheme which was referred to in last year's report.
The two new streets, extending from Gough Street to Hollywood Road and named respectively Mee Lun Street and Shin Hing Street, were laid out with widths of 28 and 30 feet. Owing to the difference in level between Gough Street and Hollywood Road, they consist of flights of steps with short landings between, the steps and landings being of dressed granite. The necessary drains and water mains were laid.
The areas available for building purposes were roughly terraced. Including areas which will be required for the formation of scavenging lanes, they amount to about 17,870 square feet.
The only payment inade for resumption of land was for a small portion of No. 18 Gongh Street, which was resumed on the following terms:-
Compensation for portion of back premises resumed, Interest paid by Government,.
.$1,600.00 56.00
$1,656.00
Value of half of party-wall of No. 18 Gough Street
sold to owner of that property,.......... Value of half of party-wall of No. 24 Gough Street
sold to same party,
...$200
200
400.00
$1,256.00
In addition to the half party-walls just mentioned, the only other sale effected was one of a small triangular area of land adjoining I. L. 60 for which $1,705 was realized. To improve the alignment of the east side of Mee Lun Street, the owner of I. L. 60 surrendered a small triangular portion of his lot in exchange for an equivalent area which fell within his readjusted boundaries, the payment of $1,705 being for the excess area acquired by him.
The following is a statement of the cost of the Mee Lun Lane Scheme:-
Compensation paid for property resumed, including insurance
and interest,
.$249,159.19
Cost of pulling down houses, constructing new streets, re-
building or strengthening portions of old buildings, &c., 36,447.45 Laying water mains, stores used in work, &c., Fees paid for valuations,
Total........
541.86
3,506.66
$289,655.16
The only sums recovered up to the present are those mentioned above, namely:
Sale of half of two party-walls,....
.3 400.00
Sale of small area for extension of I.L. 60,
1,705.00
Total........
.$2,105.00
83. Albany Filter Beds, Reconstruction and Extension.--Fair progress was made with this work though some delay was occasioned by the ironwork which had been ordered from England not arriving when required.
The new No. 1 filter bed next the Peak Tramway was completed by the end of July and brought into action for filtering purposes, and the work of deepening and extending the old filter bed next the service reservoir, now known as No. 8 bed, which had been partially begun in April, was then proceeded with. This work was well advanced by the close of the
year.
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