FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1921.
PRAYA
EAST
RECLAMATION:
THROWING A HILL INTO, THE HARBOUR.
BIG SCHEME, DESCRIBED..
MANY IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS PLANNED.
A watery waste of ninety acres is recyynstruction.
be reclaimed, ses walls and piers ilt, the area to be divided into
cks suitable for brad thorough-
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which were
A DIP INTO THE FUTURE.
arteries passing tween Morrison and shrieking incomotives, an
THE CHINA MAIL.
vertised, but more detailed refer ence to this matter, which affects the drainage of the whole of the Wanchai district, will be made in
due course
AN IMPORTANT POINT.
NEW ROADS.
only harbege
to construct the transport lines in
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a concrete trough three feet below
Feet in lagtb providing a depth As already mentioned, the material which tenders have now been called, thought and skill he has devoted to alongsideof 16 feet 4 inches or low for the reclamation will be obtained and it is understood that arrange making it a practical reality water, will be constructed for the by demolishing Morrison Hill which ments have been made for this work the engineer in charge of the Pays Admiral The remaining stretch will provide almost, if not quite, to be carried out separately in order Fast Reclamation Works" (not by to East Point will be protected sufficient soil for the purpose when that the work of the main contract any means his by the sual sea wall (similar to reduced at the centre to height will not be impeded, as it will be work, grast though it is), Mr. Dunesa Before sketching the scope of the that in Connaught Road Central, barely 3 1/2 feet above the level of necessary to reconstruct the existing originated the plan for transporting drainage system because the whole the Morrison Hill misterial under proposed reclamation work, it is as roughly 1935 feet long. This sea the existing prara well to emphasize an important wall-from the new alignment of
This means that the centre of of the Wanchai drainage system is Bowrington Canal bridge. The timel Imaging for a moment Hong-1 To whom the credit? To 10any, Point. The scheme is purely a 'con. J Arsenal Preet to the Sugar Re Morrison Hill will be lowered 175 at a level too low to give sufficient lines, it is planned, will leave the B- Long's Finest Site surmounted all indebted in greater or less debutary one carried out by private finery-wil be so designed that 65 a suit column of earth rising are to the other for thought or enterprise under tiovernment con- ships will rant be able to come 12 feet (from 192 to 16.50 feet above fail for afficient discharge into the by crossing Mormon s
course, the usual mooring rings will of filling material to be transported from the new sea wall. Accordingly, then pass along the Canal Road ashr nearly a site into the air and you enterprise. To the brain that first trol. The total cost of the scheme alongside xcept at piers, though, of how water), and that the total quantity harbour at the distance it would be opposite the Police Club. They w
which is being undertaken as a
intercepting the existing drainage into the canal and pass under the will have one conception of the ownerived the idea "many years ago Boronat of wil to be com inns when the scheme was first meet complete work, will be borne by the providd for janks. The exist to the reclamation works will be arrangements have been made for Half way along they will brands
until the Wanchai system has been bridge between the west pier and the Morrison Hill and thrown into them as desirable": to those who arious marine lot owners, that is,g piers, of course, will be destroy-3,300,000 cubic yards.
by the persons who have reclama ed and ther places taken by public
Under the Morrison Hill develop reconstructed at a higher level. Until west abatment and so o the field Barbour under the Praga Fast Re-revived the propisal some tention rights on Praya East through 120 fet 8 inches long; and went scheme one through road in the big culverts are in use two, or ir-reclamation. This scheme, as
persone 35 feet 4 inches wide clamation Scheme-the most costly twelve year ago," only to be baulk the ownership of properts abutting and ther T-shaped, 21 feet, and 4 feet wide will be made extending haps three, "turnouts or open insight so simple. raised one Ita venture yet fathered by the localed by the times
on the existing praya. Among "destue! inopportune for Public Works Department, Tytam the fuge Works out chrepini. A hit who advanced the idea again in Guverament, which will according, wide, hy feet long. The refuse to the new forewhore, crossing the Free for reclamation work, the cxist-sufficient headroom between the laval Reservoir and the Harbour of le such an endrinking to those those who have these rights is the inches and 1 fet and 2 inches from the Happy Valley Monument terepting sewers, will be provided. awkward problem, thou
ly be treated in exactly the sale, kot pier cement concrete block.
hetween Heard Street and Tinkok up. Incidentally, the existing fore Bowrington Canal Bridge for the of 3,300,000 cubic yards is to be 1913 just in mine to suffer the blight-way as the other lot owners. Hav.contructio) will be 63 fest will existing Praya East at right-anglesing farebar, will sont be covered ‡ of high tides and the underside of the demolished and its place taken by of war; and to these who ensured in received a consponding phap 8 feet long, providing a depth Lane. As right-angles to that mad shore, which has been known to enit passage of a loaded track and fat roads and recreation grounds. its final soprane in these days purting of the new building front water alongsite of is feet there will be an extension of Queen's offensive smells at low tide, will be the Bridge cannot be raised without
age to that which he holds of the inches at ow water. The refuse
• Police work of reclamation is in progress, tramway service it has been arranged Meantime, it must not be for existing building frontage, each kot storage shel, 12 feet 6 inches wide load East sixty feet wide to join rendered lew disagreeable while the serious interruption to the low level
recreation ground. · Entra. to the thanks to these open sewers. e at the
AN AWKWARD QUESTION, ten, the Greamers continued owner bears per square foot of land by 58 feet ong, will be constructed Leighton Hill Road near
How is a hill to be demolished, high water. The drainage of the es, modern godowns and tene with the necessary soundings and allotted his proportionate share of new lines. Unlike the present
come and p at will, the new shed western end opposite the present ents. Existing streets are to be surveys." What patient hours of the total cost of the scheme. Con-open shells which allow flies to road to the Peak will be m
sequently the Government pays widened or straighteneil, elaborate thought and care that bald state-nothing for the debtion of Mor will be covered in. Furthermore, the Royal Naval Hospital entrance: It transported across several streets Canal will discharge through the drainage works are to be construct- ment esters! Exacting soundings rison Hill or the reclamation of dones facing the barbour will hinge will be possible to go along the new and then dunned into the harbour remaining two spans of the bridge. the first and last to the head of the incline passing ed, and many other desirable ends surveys, intricate plans and Praya Fast, except as a lot owner. dawnwords to act as chutes for the low road to Leighton Hill Road, or Given the necessary plant and Consequently tracks will be trailed achieved. Light railways are to be designs, abstruse figures and dia The cost of mads. creation discharge o refuse into the waiting to the Monument at Happy Valley. Labour
or enter the road to the Peak. It portions of the question pre under the bridge, released by the Isid and temporary rains con- grams-complex creations of the
grands, etc., in the Morrison Hai, barges. stracted, and by either one of tw|brain soon to be translated intores will be met in the tent was.. One of the most notable features of will also be possible to join the Feat sent no insuperable difficulties. Not locomotive on the shore side, and ingenioas expedients, the traffic living terus of toiling buruanity The total estimated cost of the the scheme s the generous provision Road from the Valley Monument so the question of transport. In the seized by another locomotive waiting Hill and the existing foreshore anulazing confusion of men and scene to those participating, in-made for coals, none of which will be end. This approach road to the Peak contract for which tenders have been on the harbour side of the brig to be luft as free from external in things gradually take shape in ding, drainage works on or in-less than 75feet in width, while the Road will be made at a maximum called provision is made, it is under- In this way the whole of the mass terfere they are today. En stately streets, loaded godowas, tiental to the reclamation, water main east and west road will be 100 height of thirty feet above the low stood. for contractor to tender so can be transported from Horris
demolition of Mormon Hill is con maximum of efficiency and economy.. six years the work of throwing a crowded tenements, and laughing in forming and surfacing of feet wile the same width as Nathan road in continuation of Queen's Road far as the material obtained by the Hill to the reclamation ares with the
After making provision for anrere. for the following alternative and the minimam of danger to bill into the harbour will progesternation fields. A thought almost, the construction of piers in Road, Kowle, and twice the width East.
place of the existing plers which are of Des Veens Road in the city. In unceasing. One of the first steps thrilling, is it na?.
Though the heedless sampan still be destravel, supervision, and order that is new main thorough extension of the recreation ground moxies of transport:-ta) The whole engaged in the work and the publis will be to rotumenice work on the " buge sea wall planted to start at ride the tursid raters hetween various other changes, apunts, to fare may start at the entrance to at Happy Valley by the inclusion of by proposed transport lines under alike. Furthermore, the moment The cost per square the Royal Naval Arsenal Yard. thus the triangular area on the east side Bowrington Canal Bridge, Praya work is completed on the big calverts both ends simultaneously, while the Arsenal Street and East Point, and
wil Morrison Hill has still to feel theft of the area available for appro eliminating as awkward turning, an of the new 5-foot road, there will East: (by the whole by overhead under the new road leading to the temporary drainage works #speedily dive way to moke permal-
first touch of the poiler's hand,249,000 square feet--is exchange of End will be effected with remain 72,000 square feet of land transport lines between Heard Street foreshore the canal waters can be herefore estimated at $10 the Admiraly and the property Of this area, land aggregating $97,000 and Tinlok Lane, (c) partly by a permanently diverted, as intended ent works.
events now promise to move quick-Adding a reemium of 25 centsmann as the Blue Buildings will square feet (95 acres) will be available, and partly by b; and (d) the whole i under the scheme. Locomotives wËLL THE COST. And the net nsult? Acres of the minutest detail (though the quare foot, the estimated cost it be resumed and partly demolished for building. It is gathered that the by such the method as the contras not pass under the bridge, but there.. intention that Morrison Hill Road tor tendering may desire to adopt. will be ample room for the passage godowns. tenements, roads.
A HANDSOME THOROUGHFARE. and metlax of transport over or under the lot owner amounts to $1.75 1.2
The new rad, which should make from its present junction with Leigh full details of which he is requested of loaded trucks, as the line will drep recreation grounds with a splendid Queen's Road East has not yet per spare fout. The exact area of foreshore, all from a hill and ninety quite been determined) and tenders and available under the scheme
Ang have been called for reclaiming when the reclamation work has a handsome thoroughfare when com-ton Hall Road to Wongneichong Boal to sabait with his tender. It is one in 130 and rise the other side 2 acres of unlockerois water. additional to arms of building land approximately 90 acres of the Prara been upleted will be $7.72 acres. pleted. will continue along the re at the Valley Montment will form distinctly made clear that the whole a similar incline. The lowest portion near the business heart of the town East foreshore with materials ob of which 51.63 will be available clamation an rejoin Fraya East at part of the new recreation area and of the filling material shall be trans- of the line will be at a level of 6 feet fallen from the sky as it were, to fained by cutting down Morrison appropriation. The remaining Malory Stred From Malory Street that the present tramway services ported without crossing Praya East Labore low water, but as the tide will interruption to traffic. In the un-portion of the fine will actually be help relieve one of the most difficult Hill-pecting the area so reclaim acres will he livided into to East Point the 100-foot out will will pass along the new 75 foot road on the level so that there will be no rise to nine feet above low water,
ed by Sew and Quay Walls, con-aral Arsenal Fard to the Sugar in Praya, ad that portion of the
Stretching from the Royal be preserved or widening the exist-leading to the Praya.
fikely event of the overhead method below sea level for a time of the day. of our local problems.
semeting Sewers,
Under the scheme. Bowrington meeting with final favour, it is de: Scientifis shanting on both sides of Drains. Reinforced Concrete Piers. a Refinery at East Point, the reclaim-existing Profs roadway extending whom is the Government itself, lose Refuse Beat Pier, Retaining Wallsed land will have a minimum width from Gresson Street to Malory Street Canal will be filled in and the existing finitely stipulated that a minimum the bridge will ensure that the trucks nothing. While the Government, a and Temporary and Miscellaneous of 600 feet and a maximum of 950 will be widened to 75 feet. The open nallab, which at present dis headrooms of 18 feet must be provided are handled with the minirause of
Tenders close at the feet thoth approximate figures) thought of a splendid 100-foot road charges into the Cand, will be re-above the level of the tramway ser- delay.
The advantages of the schemat, nch, having acquired Morrison | Works." Hill, has materially reduced the Colonial Secretary's Offee at noon It will be noted from the subjoined is not complete without many things placed by nussive twin concrete vies. Consequently in any event
the latter a notable instance is the cost of the work, the hill providing on Idne 15. 1921, and it is reason plan that the area is divided into such as broad footpaths and trees, culverts, which will be built under there will be no interruption in the direct and indirect, are many. Of practical certitude that the ney-100- "at very slight cost almost, if not able to assume that the contract blocks. With a width of 275 feet. quite, sufficient soil to complete the will be let by the middle of the those nearest the foreshore will be so tramsmay, however, be the new road leading from the Happy traffic on Prays East work of filling, while the removal of following month. It is undersion admirably suited to the building of some little time before trams are seen Valley grandstand enclosure to the this hill gives the Colony a very that the period allowed the contraclowns, while the wore marrow on the new thoughfare. The matter new harbour frontage. These two The most feasible proposal seams foot mad. which is such a prominent Jare open area for sports and retur to complete the work is six inner blocks (125 feet wide) will be rests, not wit the Government, but large culverts which will carry the to be that made by Mr. John Dancan.feature of the project, will some day pore suitable for the erection of with the Tramway Company. The drainage of Wongueichong to the AMICE. Public Works Depart- be connected up with Causeway Bay enation, for all of which we are years. as little, if any, of the neces
average life of trainline is 15 years. harbour, will have a total width ment Executive Engineer, whose re-and the new wide Road leading to inted to the Government's en- sary plant is in the Colony at the Dements.
The Tramway Company has just reat the base of 32 feet and a height of sourceful brain has directed the pre-Shankiwan Time alone can tell the constructed track through this twelve feet. Immediately they are paration of all plans, surveys, and ultimate benefits that the pie tracise in the acquisition of the nwment, but it is felt that the work (as Sir Paul Chater said might quite possibly be finished Property at the meeting of Marine lot hold within five years' time. Alterations the work will be the new sea wall district, and its not seera probable ready for use Bowrington canal will soundings connected with the scheme will bring in its resin. Fo Pre on May 4 last year which ge to the existing drainage system in on which it is planned to comanence that they will lay it elsewhere until epted the Government's amended the area affected are not included from both ends simultaneously. At they have had fall return on the
in the scope of the tenders now ad- the western end a quay wall 235 recent expenditure.
But the cost? Naturally the marine los bolders interested, one of
proposals for the scheme),
i
De Plans Lave been completed to
$135,000.
nads.
Stormwater
NEW QUAY AND SEA WALLS.
Naturally, an important part of
DRAINAGE PROBLEMS.
be tilled in. As already mentioned,
is not included in the contract for the alteration of existing desinage
THE TRAIN OF TEX SCHEME-
indeed, it might be said with justice moment we stand waiting for the first of the whole scheme, so "great the I the great work has begun. that Mr. Duncan is the guiding genius ring of the hammer that will proches
PRAYA
EAST RECLAMATION
HONGKONG
(3RD MAY 1920)
SCHEME
OWAY WALL
RN DOCKYARD
ARSENAL
YARD
1000
VEEN B
SEA
A PUBLIC PIER
WALL
REFUSE-BOAT PIER
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ROAD
WALL
FEE
ROAD
100
FEET
-ROAD
PUBLIC PIER
MORRISON
RECREATION GROUND-
HAPPY VALLEY
KELLETT-JSLAND
BREAKWATER
CAUSEWAY.
BAY
SHELTER
FAST POINT
SUBAR
REFINERY
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