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Observatory-General repairs and colouring and painting extern-

ally and internally,

Queen's College--General repairs,..

Central Market-General repairs,

Kowloon City Police Station-General repairs and colouring and

painting externally,

Shaukiwan Police Station-Colouring and painting, Victoria School--Reconstructing floors, &c.,

Stanley Police Station-General repairs and colouring and

painting externally and internally..

Yaumati Market-Colouring and painting, &c., Water Police Station-General repairs,

steps to verandah,

Saiyingpun School-General repairs and constructing concrete

Houses at Hungbom resumed by Government-General repairs, Kowloon Disinfecting Station-Colouring and painting,.. No. 1 Police Station-Colouring and painting, &c.,..............

Hunghom Police Station-

do.,

Kowloon City Pier Shelter-Reconstructing,

Aberdeen Police Station--General repairs,

do.

Superintendent's Quarters, B. & F. Department-Colouring and

painting,

Aberdeen School-Colouring and painting,

Sookunpoo Market- do.,

do.

Supreme Court-General repairs,

.$1,066 947

920

911

878

833

811

718

689

569

562

551

535

501

500

482

471

452

367

364

343

314

Wanchai Market-New gutters and general repairs,

Kowloon British School-General repairs,

36. Maintenance of Buildings, New Territories.-In the case of the New Territories Buildings, the following are those which entailed considerable expenditure :—

Tai Po Quarters-General repairs and colouring and painting

externally and internally,..

Repairs to footpath,.

Tai Po Police Station-Matshed,.....

Sheung Shui Police Station-General repairs and colouring and painting externally and internally,.

do.

Cheung Chau Police Station- Do., Ping Shan Police Station-Repairs,.

do.,

$1,247

$ 692 225

917

787

581

309

37. Maintenance of Lighthouses.-The following sums were expended upon the various lighthouses:-

Gap Rock,...

Cape Collinson,....

Green Island,

$ 4,180 1,782 597

At Gap Rock, the crane at the old landing-place was replacd by a new one of an im- proved type and the crane at the new landing-place was repaired.

In pursuance of the arrangements made for improving the lighting of the approaches to the harbour, the 4th-order light which was removed from Green Island was fitted up at Cape Collinson after being provided with occulting apparatus. The new light superseded the old one on the 1st October.

The cable to Gap Rock, which was severed during the typhoon of the 29th September, 1906, was not repaired during the year, delay having been caused by consideration of a proposal to instal a wireless system of telegraphy, which was however ultimately abandoned. The shore-end required for the repair of the cable arrived in the Colony but was not laid before the close of the year.