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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1952

At Ma Niu Shui, on the Taipo arterial Road, a 93 feet bridge, built by the Japanese on the wreck of the original one demolished by British Forces in 1941, was replaced by a large box culvert. This effected a considerable improvement in the road ap- proaches, and was completed without interruption to military and civilian traffic.

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In Kowloon, the bus route to Kai Tak Airport was extended nearly mile by the construction of a new road, with a 22 feet carriageway and two 7 feet footways, beyond the airport to the river Jordan. The construction is in progress of a 45 feet long bridge over this river with a new 14 feet wide jeep road of I 1 miles to Kung Tong Bay.

Post Office

Structural alterations to the Post Office Building commenced last year were in their final stages of completion, but despite the inevitable disruption mails were dealt with in the normal manner.

Two new special launches were put into service in place of obsolete ex-War Department landing barges, for the conveyance of mails to and from ships in the harbour.

There has been no improvement in the handling of mails at the border; mails were still being man-handled in the section between the British and the Chinese portions of the Hong Kong-Canton Railway.

Postage rates on surface and airmails were revised on 1st June, 1952, to bring them up to international standards, necessary as a result of the devaluation of sterling and the general increase in mail freight rates.

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