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the Electrical Section. 6,821 Removal of Hill at Hung Hom part of Fuk Lo Tsun Road, Carpen- maintenance visits were made, 3.177 Progress surveys of cutting of hill ter Road, Shek Ku Lung Road, Ber- faults attended to, 1,401 jobs (includ- were made and levels
Junction for cutting wick Street, Nairn Road, ing maintenance, major repairs and and dumping given. Sites already Road, Ma Tau Wei Road and Road for off Boundary Street were completed. new works) were completed. 383 in- excavated to level were set out stallation tests were carried out. 36 the Housing Society.
In the New Territories, recon- estimates were prepared and sub-
Sookunpoo Sports Stadium Set- struction and resurfacing of roads at mitted and 426 inventories made out.
ting out work for the construction Wo Hop Shek Cemetery, construction The new E. & M. workshop light of seating terraces, lavatories, con- of terraces, catchwaters, access paths fittings were ordered and incorporat- crete column footings for the cover- to Wo Hop Shek, Lo Wu and Sandy ed in the building contract.
ed stand. cinder running track. Ridge Cemeteries and widening and drainage systems and roadways were surfacing of Castle Peak Road PORT WORKS OFFICE
posite Ping Shan Filling completed. Amongst other works in
were completed. Construction of the main seawall progress was the Roof to Sockunpoo at Ma Tau Kok and pitched slope to Stadium for which Fabrication of the return wall was completed. The steel joists, angles and plates to Sung Wong Toi Seawall Contract trusses were 75% completed. and was signed and work commenced. At erection of columns and trusses Central Reclamation work commenc- commenced. ed on the completion of Northern Seawall and Demolition of old Queen's Pier. Kun Tong Reclama- tion Contract awarded. Rubble Mound at Gin Drinkers' Bay Con- tract awarded.
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At the P.W.D. Testing Laboratory, 962 tests on Concrete: 378 tests
on Cement were made; also 254 tests on Aggregate; 190 on soil: 194 on Bitumen and 2 on brick.
ROADS OFFICE
Construction and maintenance works were carried out without in- terruption and a detailed survey for deck the realignment of mid-levels roads pro- was completed.
Kowloon City Ferry Pier Pile driving and concreting to deck slab. beams and bracings was commenc- ed. Kowloon Public Pier Pile driv- ing completed, concreting to slab, beams and bracings in gress. New Star Ferry Pier Con- tract drawings for Hong Kong Pier were completed and preparation of the Kowloon Pier contract drawings put in hand.
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Production for the quarter at the quarries totalled 55,748 tons of Crushed Stone and 9,462 tons of Bitumen Macadam.
Work continued on the installation of steel lighting lamps under the 1954 55 programme, a total of 249 (125 Island, 124 Mainland) new lamps were brought into operation.
WATERWORKS OFFICE
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The rainfall for the quarter amounted to 5.460 inches as against The average of 7.043 Inches. rainfall for the year totalled 53.813 inches only, which is 30.926 inches below the average.
The workshop was kept fully oc- cupied executing 459 orders in con- nection with the maintenance of the Waterworks and 10 orders for other Government Departments.
Of new work in Hong Kong, construction of Douglas Street Gresson Street in 6" concrete completed as well as typhoon rainstorm damage corrective Stewart Road Ferry Pier design sures to cutting faces at junction of was completed.
Island Road and Shaukiwan Road. 68.829 feet of mains were laid dur- Public Dumping-84,944 cubic yards In Kowloon. reconstruction of ing the quarter. 43.661 accounts for of earth and rubble were dumped at parts of Shanghai Street. Nga Tsin water consumers and 1.538 Demand Hung Hom, Ma Tau Kok. Sung Wong Long Road and
pay- Boundary Street, Notes for deposits to Toi and Cheung Sha Wan.
and construction of Cameron Lane, ment of water accounts were issued.
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KAI TAK AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT
Report on Messrs. Scott & Wilson, Kirkpatrick & Partners' Work during the quarter ending 31st December, 1954.
During the quarter ending 31st Government. As a result of these b) December, 1954, a new series of ex- findings Government approved a ploratory borings along the line of parallel taxiway and the Consulting the sea walls were put in hand and Engineers were directed to incor- all necessary tests on the undisturbed porate such a taxiway in their design. samples recovered were carried out
in the laboratory. These boreholes During the early part of the quar- were put down at closer centres than ter the majority of the Contract previously and will provide all the Documents and Drawings for the data necessary for detailed design of first contract were completed in the seawalls. A vane testing appara- draft form. Much time has been tus was employed for determining, spent amending and correcting these in-situ, the strength of cohesive soils documents and drawings and now and the results so obtained were they are being finalised. Some of the found to be of great value.
The Analysis of Air Movements at Kai Tak, prepared in conjunction with the Director of Public Works and the Director of Civil Aviation. was completed and submitted to
particular items that have arisen in connection with this first contract have been:
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The limits of additional borrow areas and the necessary access routes have been agreed.
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The question of grassing the new Airport has
has been con- sidered and it has been agreed that a new method of laying seed under a film of bitumen should be tested at Causeway Bay under the direction of the Superintendent of Gardens.
Two leading authorities in the U.K. on hydraulics and har- bour works have been ap- proached about the question of the possible effect of dredging in Hung Hom Bay on the har- bour. Both these authorities gave as their opinion that the dredging would have no dele- terious effect on the harbour.
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