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51. Survey of New Territory. The traverse survey was completed in Decem- ber, the following being the areas surveyed during the year :-
District. Kowloon.....
Un Long,
Lantao Island,
Lamma Island,
Sub-Districts.
Tsün Wan and part of Luk Yenk. Tai Lan Chung.
The whole, with the exception of small portions previously surveyed near Mui Wo and Tung Cheung.
The whole.
Tsing I Island,
Chik Lap-kok Island,
Do.
Do.
Ni Ku Chau Island,
Do.
To enable the cultivated areas in New Kowloon and several areas near Sha Tau-kok to be re-mapped on a larger scale-the scale on which the original survey was plotted having been found too small in these cases-fresh traverses had to be made, the cultivated lands South of the old boundary being also included.
One Indian Sub-Surveyor, with 6 Indian and 6 Chinese chain-men, was engaged upon the work, which was connected at four points with the trigonometri- cal survey, upon which the topographical survey is based.
The areas cadastrally surveyed during the year amounted to 11,715.81 acres, including 219,292 fields. These figures do not compare favourably with those of the preceding year, when over 11,000 acres were dealt with by a considerably less staff, the reason being that the work during 1902 was confined to much more diffi- cult ground, which consisted of the most hilly parts of the whole territory.
The following were the areas cadastrally surveyed :--
District.
Kowloon, Tung Hoi, .
Un Long,
Lantao Island,
Tsing I Island, Chik Lap-kok Island,
Ni Ku Chau Island,
Tap Mun Island,
Pak Lap Chau Island,
Kau Sai Island,.
Im Tin Tsz Island,
Sub-Districts.
..Kau Yeuk, Luk Yeuk, Tsiin Wan.
.. The whole.
..Tai Lam Chung.
The whole, with the exception of small portions previously surveyed near Min Wo and Tung Chung.
The whole.
Do.
Do..
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
The staff engaged upon this portion of the work consisted up till June of two Inspectors, 42 Surveyors, 88 Indian Chain-men and about 60 Chinese coolies. In July, 1 Inspector, 12 Surveyors and 43 Indian Chain-men were sent back to India and, after about a month's cessation, field operations were resumed with 1 Inspec- tor, 27 Surveyors, 37 Indian Chain-men and about 55 Chinese coolies.
The demarcation of the areas surveyed during 1900 was completed by the 10 Surveyors mentioned in last year's Report, who are included in the Cadastral staff enumerated above. They dealt with 13,446.84 acres, which included 97,960 fields, constituting 32,824 holdings.
One Surveyor, with one Indian coolie, was detailed throughout the whole year for special work in connection with the Land Court.
Five office assistants were obtained from India in the early part of the year, one having been previously appointed locally. The number of maps dealt with during the year was 296, the boundaries being compared and the holdings and fields inked in and numbered as the sheets were received from the Surveyors.
Two Chinese tracers were engaged in November to assist in producing copies of the maps for the use of the Land Court.
Sickness was somewhat prevalent among the staff, one Surveyor and two Indian coolies dying during the course of the year, and six Indian coolies being in- valided back to India. Two Surveyors were discharged on account of incompetence.