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Substantial quarters and offices, built of rubble masonry, the former on an elevated site about a mile distant from the site of the dam to accommodate 3 Government Overseers and the latter close to the site of the dam, were erected. The quarters were occupied by one overseer in July.
Quarters for 10 Government Foremen and for 4 Indian Police Constables, constructed of weather boarding, with tiled roofs, were erected. The former were occupied in June and the latter in August.
All the guide piles for the downstream cofferdam and 6 of those for the upstream cofferdam were driven. These cofferdams are being constructed to enclose the site of the dam where it crosses the present stream-bed, both tidal and flood water having to be excluded from the area.
The first consignment of 246 tons of cast iron pipes, 18" diameter, for the additional suction and rising mains, which will shortly be laid, arrived from England in December, the pipes being conveyed to Tytam Tuk and stacked on the reclaimed ground in front of the pumping station.
1913 Estimates, $250,000.00 Total Estimates, $2,400,000.00 1913 Expenditure, $116,749.31 Expenditure to 31/12/13, $118,938.29123. Pokfulam Road Pumping Station. This item appears in the Estimates as "Bonham Road Pumping Station", but as explained in last year's Report, it was decided, instead of making extensions there, to remove the entire plant and station to a new site some distance westward of No. 1 Bridge on the Pokfulam Road. This decision was arrived at after the Estimates for 1913 had been prepared.
A contract for the preparation of the site and erection of the necessary buildings was let to Messrs. Wing Lee & Co. in March. Good progress was made with the work, the pumping-station, boiler-house, chimney-shaft and quarters all being in an advanced state by the close of the year.
The new pumping-engine and pipes for mains arrived towards the close of the year, the cost of the former being debited to the vote, and arrangements were in progress for the transfer of one of the boilers from the existing pumping-station in Bonham Road to the new building.
1913 Estimates, $20,000.00 Total Estimates, $56,000.00 1913 Expenditure, $19,565.98 Expenditure to 31/12/13, $20,382.64Page 75
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Hongkong.
Substantial quarters and offices, built of rubble masonry, the former on an elevated site about mile distant from the site of the dam to accommodate 3 Government Overseers and the latter close to the site of the dam, were erected. The quarters were occupied by one overseer in July.
Quarters for 10 Government Foremen and for 4 Indian Police Constables, constructed of weather boarding, with titled roofs, were erected. The former was occupied in June and the latter in August.
All the guide piles for the downstream cofferdam and 6 of those for the upstream cofferdam were driven. These cofferdams are being constructed to enclose the site of the dam where it crosses the present stream-bed, both tidal and flood water having to be excluded from the area.
The first consignment of 246 tons of cast iron pipes, 18" diameter, for the additional suction and rising mains, which will shortly be laid, arrived from England in December, the pipes being conveyed to Tytam Tuk and stacked on the reclaimed ground in front of the pumping station.
1913 Estimates, ......$250,000.00 Total Estimates, $2,400,000.00 1913 Expenditure,... 116,749.31 | Expenditure to
31/12/13,...
118,938.29
123. Pokfulam Road Pumping Station. This item appears in the Estimates as "Bonham Road Pumping Station", but as explained in last year's Report, it was decided, instead of making extensions there, to remove the entire plant and station to a new site some distance westward of No. 1 Bridge on the Pokfulam Road. This decision was arrived at after the Estimates for 1913 had been prepared.
A contract for the preparation of the site and erection of the necessary buildings was let to Messrs. Wing Lee & Co. in March. Good progress was made with the work, the pumping-station, boiler-house, chimney-shaft and quarters all being in an advanced state by the close of the year.
The new pumping-engine and pipes for mains arrived towards the close of the year, the cost of the former being debited to the vote, and arrangements were in progress for the transfer of one of the boilers from the existing pumping-station in Bonham Road to the new building.
1913 Estimates,
$20,000.00 | Total Estimates, ...$56,000.00 1913 Expenditure,... 19,565.98 Expenditure to
31/12/13,
20,382.64
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