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80. Bacteriological Institute.—This building was finally completed and provided with the necessary fittings, being handed over to the Medical Department in March. A descrip- tion of it was given in last year's report.

81. Gunpowder Depôt, Green Island.-The buildings comprised under this heading were handed over to the Harbour Master's Department in February and the old depôt on Stonecutters Island was handed over to the Military Authorities after the explosives stored there had been transferred to the new depôt.

82. Volunteer Headquarters, Contribution.—This building was completed in November and handed over to the Volunteers. It occupies a site at the corner of Lower Albert Road and Garden Road, from both of which entrances are provided. The accommodation afforded comprises a drill-hall (66′ 0′′ × 52′ 0′′), Commandant's and Clerk's offices, a billiard-room, Officers' room, Sergeants' room, reading room, canteen and quarters for the Corps Sergeant Major. Extensive accommodation is provided for guns and ammunition in a basement under the drill-hall and, in a small detached building, there are lavatories and servants' rooms.

The buildings are of red brick in lime mortar, plastered externally with rough-cast plaster, with dressings and mouldings of cement mortar. The floors of the drill-hall and stores are of cement concrete, supported where necessary on steel beams and the remaining floors are of hardwood supported on hardwood joists. The roofs are covered with double pan and roll tiling laid on timber purlins and principals except in the case of the drill-hall where the purlins and principals are of steel.

The building is lighted throughout with clectric light and electric fans are provided in some of the rooms.

With the exception of a sum of $5,000 provided by Government, the entire cost of erecting and fitting up the buildings was defrayed from Corps funds. The total cost amount- ed to $30,929.28 and a further sum of $458.50 was expended on Kitson lamps for illumina- ting the Parade Ground.

83. Green Island Light Improvement.--In connection with the establishment of the new occulting light and consequent increase of staff, a store and kitchen were added to the lightkeepers' quarters and sundry other small works executed.

84. Time Ball Tower on Blackhead's Hill.-As the tower in front of the Water Police Station was becoming obscured from various parts of the harbour owing to the erection of lofty buildings on the water front, it was decided to construct a new tower on Blackhead's Hill of such a height as to be visible from practically the whole harbour. The new site possesses the further advantage of being visible from the Observatory itself from which the dropping of the ball is regulated.

A contract for the work was let in September but, owing to dilatoriness on the part of the contractor and the destruction of a matshed and injury caused to a quantity of dressed stone by fire, very little progress was made with it by the close of the year.

85. Post Office, Kowloon.-A contract for this work was let in February and the build- ing was opened for the transaction of business in September. It is a small one-storied build- ing situated in Salisbury Road containing a public office 31 feet x 30 feet with a counter for the sale of stamps, &c., clerks' and Post Master's offices, servants' quarters, lavatories, &c.

It is the first building to be erected for postal purposes in Kowloon, the business of the post office, since one was opened, having been conducted in a building rented from the Godown Co.

86. Re-arrangement of Out-buildings at the Supreme Court.-This small work consisted of certain improvements in the lavatories at the Supreme Court.