Other Design Works
255. Designs and drawings were prepared for a typhoon shelter at Tsing Yi Island and for three new piers at Kei Ling Ha Hoi, Tsing Yi and Sok Kwu Wan on Lamma Island.
MISCELLANEOUS WORKS
Boring
256. (a) The land boring unit was chiefly engaged in site investigations for the new Kowloon Hospital at King's Park. Other works included boring at Kwun Tong, Jordan Valley and Connaught Road Central. 229 bores with a total depth of 4,426 feet were sunk.
(b) The marine boring unit has been used extensively for investigation of sites for new construction work. Bores were sunk at Tsing Yi (proposed pier site), Sok Kwu Wan, Wan Chai, Central Reclamation Stages II and III, Tung Chung Bay, Aberdeen, To Kwa Wan, Tolo Harbour and various other places. A total of 175 bores with a total depth of 4,234 feet were sunk.
Minor Works
257. Minor works carried out or commenced were:
(a) Inspections of private piers prior to renewal of permits and leases.
(b) The checking of calculations and drawings submitted by private architects for various marine structures.
(c) Modifications to the saltwater pump house under Arsenal Street Marine Police Pier.
(d) The resiting of two tramway poles at Kennedy Town New Praya for the Hongkong Tramways, Ltd.
(e) The construction of a wave deflector on the Chai Wan breakwater.
Surveys
258. The survey section was fully employed on various types of surveying including land, marine and sub-marine works. All the works described in the preceding paragraphs were set out and the earth and rubble quantities measured by this section.
259. Progress and check surveys were carried out at regular intervals at public dumps and refuse dumps at Cheung Sha Wan,
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