the football field. In addition to the football field floods, the towers will also house separate lighting for the cinder-running track, seating terraces, periphery road and for the six adjacent car-parks. During the year a start was made on the construction of the reinforced concrete tower foundations.
192. Sung Wong Toi Road Seawall. Construction of 300 feet of seawall and of 450 feet of box culvert was completed on this site and the reclamation carried out to the new Kai Tak Airport boundary. Approximately 2.40 acres were reclaimed.
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193. Kowloon City Ferry Pier. The construction of this pier which was described in previous reports was completed except for the installation of two electrically operated passenger lifts and 6 ramps, the delivery of which from the United Kingdom had been delayed.
194. Stewart Road Ferry Pier. This pier, designed for use by the Hongkong & Yaumati Ferry Co., was completed by the end of the year.
It is 105 feet long, spans 22 feet between the seawall and a row of eight reinforced concrete pedestals in the sea and has been supplied with a steel-framed superstructure fixed by nuts and bolts which may easily be removed at a later date to allow the pier to be converted for general use. Two sets of landing steps, one temporarily decked over, are provided. Brick-built ticket offices are sited on the praya and these, too, may easily be removed if necessary.
195. Site Preparation for Low Cost Housing Scheme, Hung Hom. The removal of the hill adjacent to Ma Tau Wei Road, Hung Hom, was commenced in June and continued throughout the year.
The scheme is being carried out with Colonial Development and Welfare funds to provide sites for low cost housing controlled by the Hong Kong Housing Society. The work was 67% completed by the end of the year, some 441,000 cubic yards of earth and rock having been removed and an area of about 189,000 square feet cut down to housing formation levels.
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