The Municipal report on works and general matters opens with the report of the Engineer and Surveyor, who states that the year has seen the completion, procedure or commencement of a more thoo usually large number of works. Amongst these were the Cental Offices, Nieh Chih-kuei School fcr Chinese, Thomas Hanbury Schow for Boys, Hoazhew Flea Stars Woochow Road Market, Defence Creek culverting and making up of Iting roadway, Yangkingpang culverting and making up the rosd-way, East Yuhang Road culverting. Avenue Road cuvetting. A new departure in permanent paving is the construction of Fokien Road in [cement conerete without the addi-{tion of wood blocks or other mater: ial as a wearing surface.
Yangkingpang and Defence Creeks.
Works on road extensions have been more numerous than in previous years, a number of new roads having been made up and existing roads widened, Two very import ant roads, namely those resulting from the culverting of the Defence Creek and the Yangkingpang are in processs of construction. on the former is approaching completion, whilst ti on the second is well in hand. The culverting of both the Defence Creek and the Yangkingpang has been completed during the year. It was anticipsted that some trouble might be experienced in the carrying out of these works in the foundations, and the precaution was taken of cotstructing them of reinforced con crete carried on Foochow pole piles. As a matter of fact the beds of both of these creeks were found to consist of fairly hard mud after the' top three or four feet had been removed, but as the maintenance? of the proper grading in sewers is of first importance, and more espe cially so when mainsewers are com cerned, the precaution of laying stable foundation adhered to. Mr. Godfrey says:
No reference to the culverting of the zkingpang would be complete with out mention being made of the untimely death during the progress of the work of Monsieur Wantz, the Engineer to the French Municipal Council. Although not actually the originator of the scheme it was largely due to his advocacy that the work was put in hand, and the fos ering sore which had been the subject of so much discussion—spreading very many years—healed up. I am gid be able to atate that the cordial rel tions between the two Public Work inal from
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