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HONG TELEGRAPH HONGT
Volume 18
No. 32 August 12, 1970 Published every Wednesday
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SUB-FIRE STATION
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LIGHTING DOLPHINS
RUNWAY
EXTENSION
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TENDERS FOR
RUNWAY EXTENSION
Government has received tenders for the extension of the Kai Tak airport runway, an official spokesman dis- closed last week.
This principal contract re- quires the construction of 1.25 miles of seawalls and the reclamation of about 60 acres of seabed which will be en- compassed by the extension.
"The work involves dredg- ing about two million cubic yards of seabed materials, the deposition of over 750,000 cu yds of rock and 5,500,000 cu yds of decomposed rock as filling matehials in the sea- walls and reclamation," the spokesman said.
He pointed out that the Public Works Department was at present considering a report on tenders submitted by the consulting engineers for the project, Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Partners, and it was anticipated that work would commence on principal contract later this
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Several contracts had been completed or in hand for ex- tending facilities at Kai Tak, including extensions to the parking aprons and the widening of the existing taxi- way.
"The whole of the project for the extension of the run- way should be completed early in 1973. The approved total cost of the project is, $115 million," he said.
Car-wash
KOWLOON CITY FERRY PIER
KAI TAK AIRPORT RUNWAY EXTENSION
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HK firm partner in big Fiji development plan
Southern Pacific Properties Ltd, in which Jardine, Mathe and Co Ltd, has acquired a shareholding, is to undertake soon first stage of a multi-million-dollar programme of resort residential developments in Fiji.
Low-budget tours
under study
A travel agent from Britain visited Hongkong to study the possibility of organising “very low-rate" yours to Southeast Asia, including the Colony, from the United Kingdom.
He is Mr Simon Goodınan, Director of Simms Travel, who envisages a two-week holiftay in Southeast Asia for a tourist from Britain could bh costed down to $4,000.
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Announcing this last week, a Jardines spo man said other major shareholders in the ven include Slater, Walker and Withers Ltd (Brita Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Co and a group of Canadian investors.
Mr
D. K. Newbigging, Managing Director of Jar- dincs. had joined the board of Southern Pacific Proper- ties, with Mr Simon Keswick as the Jardines Alternate Director.
The spokesman said South\ cr'n Pacific Properties had acquired and had options for around 10,000 acres of free- hold land in Fiji the largest single parcel of free- hold land in the South Pacific territory suitable for resitien- tial and recreational develop. mient.
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