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The estimated cost of reclamation works to the east of the wet dock including 10 per cent for contingencies is as follows:-
Sea Wall, Pitched Slope and Rubble Mounds, Filling
$
156,000.00
72,000.00
$
228,000.00
This is equivalent to a unit cost of $0.95 per square foot of
reclamation.
Development of the Harbour Front in General.
HONGKONG.
Whitfield.
Nos. 3 and
5.
It is considered that explosives stored in the magazines on Kellett Island will be in Drawings too close proximity to the reclamation necessary to protect the Causeway Bay Shelter. It is recommended therefore, that another site more remote from populated districts should be allocated for this purpose. Kellett Island, after the repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1898, will then become available as a permanent "home" for the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, the area now occupied by it at Whitfield being surrendered to Government. Thus, the large artificial embayment now existing between the properties of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. (M.L. 277) and the Hongkong Electric Co. (M.L. 321) may be filled in to provide much needed building sites in this locality. The land reclaimed should be protected by an ordinary type sea wall.
Shaukiwan.
In the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce discussions, previously referred Drawing to, the Chairman is reported to have said:--
"A new question which might arise but which has not yet been before the Shipping Sub-Committee is that of a typhoon refuge at Shaukiwan on account of the growth of the shipping and population in that neighbour- hood and its distance from Causeway Bay and Mongkoktsui. The toll during the recent typhoon (on the 18th of August 1923) was very marked there and apparently always will be when winds reaching typhoon force come from an easterly direction ".
The foreshores immediately within Lyemun should remain as far as possible in their natural state so that seas entering the harbour through the eastern entrance may disperse and expend their force rather than be propagated up the harbour.
In the development of Shaukiwan, the boundary shewn coloured yellow on Drawing No. 3 was recommended by me as the seaward limit to which works may be carried out in Aldrich Bay without serious detriment to the harbour. The area of foreshore enclosed within that limit might have been utilized for the formation of a typhoon shelter but the demand for land in this vicinity and the excessive cost of constructing a typhoon refuge in proportion to the area of shelter provided, have determined that the development of this foreshore be by reclamation. To minimize as far as possible the effect of carrying out the reclamation, it is recommended that it be protected by a pitched slope superstruc- ture founded on a rubble mound brought to the level of about L.W.O.S.T.
In regard to the provision of typhoon shelter for small craft engaged in the vicinity of Shaukiwan, it is considered that sufficient accommodation will be available when the North Point Scheme is completed, provided the better found craft proceed to Causeway Bay or Mongkoktsui pending the construction of the alternative shelter provided for in the schemes of development now recommended.
KOWLOON AND NEW TERRITORIES.
Chong Lui and Yau Tong Bays.
The foreshores of these bays should remain in their natural state. No development is therefore recommended.
No. 3.