144. During the year, several of the military access roads were taken over for maintenance. These included Cape D'Aguilar Road, Little Sai Wan Road and Cape Collinson Road. The total mileage added in this way was approximately 6 miles. Surface repairs were carried out on the two last named; but major works are anticipated on most of them in the near future.
145. Work was commenced in building access roads to two areas where official squatter resettlement villages are to be built.
Miscellaneous
146. In addition to the foregoing and routine maintenance work, some 140 odd works were carried out on behalf of private owners. These were in the main the construction of pavements, footways and driveways on private property.
147. The following table sets forth the total areas of the various types of surfacing laid on the Colony's roads during the year.
The figures do not include the area covered by many thousands of small patching jobs undertaken by the Maintenance Contractor or direct labour.
Areas in sq. yds. Island Mainland Total 8" cement concrete 25,201 35,183 60,384 6" cement concrete 31,143 75,498 106,641 2½" granolithic 45,016 42,753 87,769 4" tarmacadam 20,038 35,934 55,972 3" tarmacadam 48,796 24,464 73,260 4" dry macadam 1,798 27,287 29,085 3" dry macadam 5,303 4,388 9,691 2" tartops 14,865 7,799 22,664 1" tartops 124,980 284,892 409,872 Tarpainting 1,084 1,084 Bottoming 22,050 2,405 24,455 Cement concrete channel in cu. ft. 47,919 87,525 135,44438