Kwai Chung and Tsuen Wan
5.22. Financial difficulties affected the progress of contractors engaged on site formation for low-cost housing, resettlement, and private development at Kwai Chung North. Of the four site formation contracts carried out during the year, one was completed, and one had to be re-entered by Government, and arrangements made for another contractor to complete the outstanding works. Four platforms were handed over to the Architectural Office for construction of low-cost housing and resettlement housing, and a further 10.7 acres of hillside terrace were completed.
5.23. Stage II of the Kwai Chung Development Scheme under the supervision of Consulting Engineers was completed. The scheme provided 348 acres of formed land, 8,700 feet of reinforced concrete culvert, and 13,800 feet of 4-lane dual carriageway road. It also included 2,000 feet of seawall and a typhoon shelter of about 50 acres at Rambler Channel for small craft.
Sha Tin
5.24. Progress on Sha Tin New Town was restricted to Stage I, as previously described, and a limited amount of investigations and design work pending further revision.
Railway Section
5.25. The reclamation and buildings for new railway workshops were completed at Ho Tung Lau, Sha Tin. The branch line linking the workshops with Sha Tin Station was completed, and the track layout at the workshops was almost complete.
5.26. Reprovision of part of the existing railway workshops at Hung Hom was largely complete. The project includes a running shed, turntable, diesel oil installation, a temporary carriage washing shed, and a temporary track linking the running shed with the existing railway terminus at Tsim Sha Tsui.
PORT WORKS DIVISION
Chief Engineer:
H. R. A. CHAMBERLAIN, B.Sc., A.M.I.C.E.
General
5.27. The main work of the Division consisted of the construction of breakwaters, seawalls, piers, incinerators, and reclamations. General
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