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Drawings Nos. 3
and 1.
Drawings
Nos. 2 and 3.
Kun Tong Bay.
A scheme for the development of this bay is shewn coloured pink (cross-hatched) and yellow on Drawing No. 3. It will not be possible, however, to determine if works to the extent shewn may be constructed until the effect on the harbour by the construction of the works involved in the various schemes already recommended and in the develop- ment of the harbour front in general, has been ascertained. The scheme illustrated in yellow colour should be regarded, therefore, as purely tentative. It is not considered that it would be to the detriment of the harbour to reclaim the two areas shewn cross- hatched in pink colour but their development should be considered in connection with the possibility of the construction of the scheme referred to.
In regard to the actual construction of these areas, the reclamations should be protected by pitched slope superstructure founded on rubble mounds brought up to the level of L.W.O.S.T.
Kowloon Bay.
The final lines to which reclamation may be carried out were fixed by the Town Planning Committee as recommended by me in 1922 and are shewn edged in yellow colour on Drawing No. 3.
Provision is made on the east side of the Bay for the junk-building industry and on the west side for the timber trade. In both cases it will not be necessary to enclose the reclamations along the greater part of their frontages; in consequence, it is not antici- pated that the effect of these works will increase, to any extent, sea disturbance in the harbour during typhoon gales.
At Kwo Lo Wan by the construction of a rubble embankinent, it is proposed to shelter an area which may be used as a typhoon refuge pending its reclamation when the rubble embankment will serve for the foundation of the protecting sea wall.
Tai Wan.
As already referred to in the description of the Hung Hom Bay scheme, the greater portion of the areas which can be acquired at Tai Wan should be reserved for the pur- pose of dealing with any coal or ores that may possibly be imported by rail.
Application has been received from the China Light and Power Co. for an extension to their present property. In response to this application, the area (about 69,000 square feet) shewn coloured light pink cross-hatched darker pink may be granted without prejudice to a scheme for the handling of the commodities referred to.
Mongkoktsui.
The Town Planning Committee in 1922 recommended the construction of a road 100 feet wide, (shewn in pink colour on Drawing No. 2) along the frontage of the properties now abutting on the east side of the Mongkoktsui Harbour of Refuge and extension of the road southward through Kowloon Marine Lot No. 49, thence through the area of Admiralty property now developed for the storage of coal and oil fuel, thence across Military Lands and connecting with Nathan Road.
So far as I am aware, the reasons for the Committee's recommendation were to provide for :-
(a) A greater area of frontage for the discharge from or loading to craft of
materials consigned to or from the back areas of Mongkoktsui.
Under present conditions the Marine Lots leased along this frontage extend to the cope of the sea wall so that the only spaces available for public use are at the ends of the various roads.
(b) Better police control along this water front.
(e) The construction when necessary of a railway line. The Committee has indicated a line, shewn by pink dashes on Drawing No. 2, connecting with the main line beyond Yaumati Railway Station and terminating at Jordan Road.