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Item (ii) includes 598 lineal feet above Bowen Road and 823 lineal feet between Bowen and Kennedy Roads. Of the above, a length of 356 feet is semi-circular in section and 3 feet 6 inches in diameter and the remainder is of irregular or varying section, the greater part being formed out of the rocky beds of the streams, the irregularities in which were made good with cement concrete.

Item (iii.) is a short length of nullah of ordinary section, average width 4 feet 3 inches, depth 5 feet, with concrete invert and rubble masonry side walls as previously described.

Item (iv.) includes 350 feet of new nullah of ordinary section, 6 feet wide and 3 feet 6 inches deep, and the provision of a concrete invert to an old portion of nullah, 320 feet in length.

Item (v.) comprises the formation of two wide channels, each 200 feet in length and of a width of 6 feet and 4 feet respectively, paved with rubble masoury, and of 446 feet of lime and cement concrete channels varying from 18 to 15 inches in width.

Item (vi.) is a short length of branch nullah adjoining the village of Quarry Bay. Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE contributed $120 towards the cost ($709.56) as the nullah traversed one of their lots for a short distance.

In addition to the above, the nullah in Waterloo Road, Kowloon, was extended for a distance of 818 feet, but, as the cost of the work was defrayed out of the vote "Miscellaneous Drainage Works", it is more particularly referred to under that heading.

58. Miscellaneous Drainage Works.-There were heavy demands upon this vote in con- nection with the extensive reclamations carried out in Kowloon during the past few years and the consequent extension and raising of drains and sewers. The following is a statement of the principal items of expenditure, the amount stated being in some cases only a part of the cost owing to the work extending into more than one year :-

Kowloon.

(i.) Taikoktsui Sewerage System,

(ii) Mongkoktsui Market neighbourhood:-

Sewers and storm water drains,.

$16,109

9,950

(iii.) Robinson Road :-

New sewer and relaying old between Middle and Carnarvon Roads,

....$ 1.741

Storm water drain do., do.,

2,478

Drains in connection with lowering

summit, etc.,

5,900

$10,119

(iv.) Disinfecting Station neighbourhood :-

Extension of Nullah in Waterloo Road, $ 4,050 Sewer,

2,607

$ 6,657

(v.) Salisbury Road-Storm water drain,

3,015

(vi.) Austin Avenue-Sewer and storm water drain........ (vii.) Extension of sewer for Steam Laundry,

1,961

1,201

(viii) Filling in swamp near Do.,

650

(ix.)

Extension of sewer to Gun Club Hill,

444

(x.)

Do. for latrine, Gillies Avenue,

439

(xi.)

Do. for K.I.L. 615, Observatory Road,

436

$50.981

Hongkong.

(xii) Extension of sewer for R.B.L. 56, Mount Kellett Rd., $ 1,367 (xiii. Storm-water drain in Leighton Hill Road,

(xiv.) Catchwater behind I.L.'s 1569 and 1577, do. do.,

(xv.) Drainage of Victoria British School,

(xvi.) Extension of sewer for I.L. 1683, Macdonnell Road,...

(xvii.) General-Drain Connections,

1,288

1,276

391

450

$ 4,972

3,725