quay wall, consisting of heavy mass concrete blocks manufactured in Hong Kong and transported and placed in position at Tai O by means of barges and heavy lifting gear. The blocks were founded on rubble dumped into a specially dredged trench and levelled underwater by means of divers. The dimensions of the new pier are 200' long and 30' wide; vessels drawing 10' of water will be able to berth at all states of the tide. The construction of the new pier has also necessitated the construction of a causeway 500 ft. long to give road access from the pier to Tai O Village. The work is estimated to cost $446,500.
(c) Survey Party for the location and preparation of improvement schemes in the outlying parts of the New Territories.
A special staff of 1 Assistant Engineer, 1 Engineering Surveyor, 1 Chainman and 4 Survey Coolies was recruited in December 1951 for the preparation of local public works schemes in outlying parts of the New Territories in accordance with priorities assigned by the District Commissioner, New Territories. It is intended that the actual work should be carried out by the local villagers. Surveys and schemes were prepared during the year for access roads from the public pier to the village at Silver Mine Bay and at Tai O, Lantau Island, a complete Town Planning Layout for the Silver Mine Bay area, a new public pier at Ping Chau, and a Town Planning Layout and up-to-date drainage scheme for Cheung Chau Island. This survey party covered much valuable ground and, should the local villagers be in a position to complete the schemes prepared, a valuable contribution will have been made to the development of these outlying districts.
Routine Investigations and Miscellaneous Works
126. Throughout the year the general survey section was fully employed with land and hydrographical surveys, site investigation and land and marine borings in connexion with current or proposed schemes. These were not all in connexion
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was removed as per instruction, and minor errors like "manufac- tured" and "com- plete" and "Terri- tories" were corrected to "manufactured", "complete", and "Territories" respectively, and "connexion" was kept as it is since it is not an error. "10 of water" was corrected to "10' of water".