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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES
Colony's second refuse disposal incinerator at Lai Chi Kok. Pro- vision is being made for the waste heat from this incinerator to be used for desalinating sea water. A new government dockyard in the Yau Ma Tei area was begun by letting one contract for demoli- tion of the existing godowns on the site and another contract for three slipways and a pier.
In the New Territories, dredging was completed in Tai O creek to provide a sheltered anchorage for the fishing fleet based on Lantau Island. Work started on a seawall at Ho Tung Lau, Sha Tin, to retain a reclamation which will provide a site for new rail- way workshops. The work comprises 2,000 feet of wall and a salt water pumphouse. Work also started on constructing a new pier at Waglan Island. Additional navigation beacons were built at Loo Foo Fat, Treasure Cove, Gau Tau and Cheung Chau Rock. Others at Wong Chuk Kok and Nga Ying Pai were started.
The materials testing laboratory operated by the port works division of the Public Works Department carried out approximately 47,972 tests on various building materials. About 19,500 of them were for private firms.
LAND DEVELOPMENT
Progress at the two new towns of Kwun Tong and Tsuen Wan- Kwai Chung included the formation of land totalling 135 acres. At Kwun Tong 70 acres were completed, including five acres of reclamation. The reclamation at Kwun Tong has now been com- pleted with the exception of a small area which cannot be filled until a salt water pumphouse has been removed and various as- sociated engineering works completed. Dumping in this part of the Colony has now been transferred to the adjacent Kowloon Bay, where 48 acres of land for industrial development were reclaimed. The number of established factories at Kwun Tong increased to 226 and the population rose to over 160,000. At Tsuen Wan–Kwai Chung 65 acres of land were formed, of which 20 acres were re- claimed in contracts being carried out under the control of the consulting engineers. Four other contracts, which were under the control of the Public Works Department, produced a further 45 acres of formed hillside terraces. These are being used for the construction of resettlement and low-cost housing estates.