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Sunshade over No. 2 First Street obstructs light of Lamp No. 603 in Eastern

Street (remove).

Lamps Nos. 23, Praya West, and 121, 122, 127, 616 and 118 Queen's Road

West obstructed by signboards (remove).

Lamp No. 120 Queen's Road West to be moved clear of angle of building.

YAUMATI.

1 Lamp required over the Station door.

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in Station Street, 2 at extreme North end and 2 at extreme South end. in Kennedy Street near the pound.

Brackets in Seaside Lane.

in Temple Street, I at North end.

1 Bracket at corner of Ginger Factory,

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at Latrine.

1 Post North of No. 28 Lamp.

4 Lamp (Bracket) in Fuk Sing Lane,

at South end of Leung Wo Laue.

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in lane between Station and Temple Streets.

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in lane between Station Street and Praya.

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in lane between Battery and Reclamation Streets.

3 Brackets in lane between Battery Street and New Praya and 1 Lamp

post at North end of Lane.

Bracket near Middle of Lane between Station and Reclamation Streets.

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(Minute by the Colonial Secretary.)

Honourable Director of Public Works,

For any remarks you may have to offer. Hill District was not referred to the Committee. to it?

The question of the lighting of the What is your opinion with regard

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

5th June, 1896.

No. 394.

SIR,

(Report by the Director of Public Works.)

PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE, HONGKONG, 13th July, 1896.

I have the honour to inform you that I have considered the report of the Com- mittee appointed by His Excellency the Governor to consider the question of Public Lighting in the City of Victoria and British Kowloon.

2. Generally speaking, the question of lighting streets may be divided into two headings, vizL. ;—

(a) The Lighting of Public Streets, Roads and Lanes, and

(b) The Lighting of Private Streets, Roads and Lanes.

The former can only properly be designated " public lighting," though perhaps from a police point of view the latter may be considered equally if not the more important.