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No. 2.

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No. 1913

HONGKONG.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

PUBLIC WORKS

COMMITTEE

at a Meeting held on the 29th May, 1913.

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, June 12th, 1913.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM, C.M.G.), Chairman.

the Colonial Treasurer, (ARTHUR GEORGE MURCHISON FLETCHER).

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Mr. EDBERT ANSGAR HEWETT, C.M.G.

Mr. WEI YUK, C.M.G.

ABSENT:

Mr. CHARLES HENDERSON ROSS (absent from the Colony).

Roads in New Territories.-(C.S.O. 685/1912.)

The Chairman laid before the Committee a proposal to construct a road from near Tai Po to Fan Ling, where it would join the road already constructed from the latter place to Castle Peak Bay. The cost of such a road, with a width of 14 feet, was roughly estimated at $30,000, but it had been suggested that the width should be increased and 15 feet bad been mentioned as a sufficient width.

After full discussion, the Committee unanimously agreed to recommend that the road should be made with a width of 16 feet, the Chairman stating that the cost of such a road would be about $34,000.

As the Committee were of opinion that the road should be connected up with the exist- ing road from Kowloon Point to Tai Po, they further recommended that a bridge, suitable for motor traffic, should be constructed spanning the Lam Tsun Valley River, together with the necessary approaches to same. It was agreed that the width of this bridge and of any others on the road already mentioned should not exceed 14 feet. The Chairman stated that the cost of the bridge and approaches would be about $12,000.

The Chairman stated that the question of widening the Sha Tau Kok-Castle Peak Road, which had been constructed generally with a width of from 6 to 8 feet, had also been referred to the Committee. It was unanimously agreed to recommend that, with the excep- tion of the bridges which had been constructed with a width of 14 feet, the road in question should be widened throughout to 16 feet as soon as funds would permit.

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