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Hongkong, other than City.

Constructing retaining walls rendered necessary by

widening road past Quarry Bay Shipyard, .........$ 5,373 Straightening Barker Road past Victoria Hospital and

forming approaches to Hospital,

1,211

Kerbing and channelling roads at Inland Lots 1617-

1618, North Point,

943

Contribution towards cost of Jubilee Road on account

524

303

of damage done by rainstorm,..

Track for path from Plantation Gap to Barker Road,

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37. Extension of Gas Lighting.-Irrespective of those erected in private lanes and streets, the cost of which was defrayed by the owners of the adjacent property, 6 lamps were added in Conduit Road, 3 in Wongneichong Road and 5 in various other parts of the City, whilst 14 were added in and about Yaumati, Kowloon.

38. Drainage Works, Miscellaneous.-The principal items of expenditure under this heading were the following, the amount stated being only a part of the cost in some cases owing to the work extending into more than one year: Constructing nullah in Cooke Street and Gillies Avenue

Hungbom (completed),

Training nullahs to east and south of Inland Lot 1523,

Macdonnell Road,....

$ 11,296

6,197

Constructing flushing tank in Garden Road adjoining Volunteer Headquarters with connections to

sewers,

4,274

Reconstructing stormwater drains in Government

House grounds,............................

3,832

Training nullah past Grand Stand Enclosure, Happy

Valley,

3,500

Reconstructing drains at Kennedy Town Cattle Depôt,

2,584

Constructing sewer outfall in connection with Praya

Reclamation Works,...

2,405

Laying 21-inch drain to carry off stormwater from

Happy Valley,

2,081

Training nullahs adjoining Victoria Hospital and Rural

Building Lot 91, Barker Road,.

....

2,044

Laying main sewer in Barker Road,

1,379

Constructing channels and draining valley below

Stewart Terrace, the Peak,

1,110

Laying sewer from the Public Mortuary, Hill Road,

to the Harbour,...

947

Extending sewer for houses on Kowloon Inland Lot

421, Austin Road, Kowloon,

899

Extending sewer for houses on Leighton Hill Road, Forming new invert to nullah near Merton Lodge (Inland Lot 1216), Western District of City, Constructing stormwater drain opposite Marine Lot

239, Kennedy Town,

623

616

601

Laying sewer for houses on Kowloon Inland Lot 1078

Mong-kok-tsui, ..................

440

Extending stormwater drain in Man Ning Lane,

Yaumati,

408

Constructing catchwaters, &c., at Tai O Police Station,

Lantao Island,

402

Extending sewer in Des Voeux Road Central opposite

Marine Lot 63,.....

324

It will be observed from the foregoing list that a large proportion of this vote was expended in training nullahs, a work to which so much importance is now attached as a means of preventing the dissemination of malarial fever by mosqui- toes, for the propagation of which the untrained streams afford highly favourable

conditions.