General
6.05 Where the formation and servicing of undeveloped areas in Kowloon and the New Territories for urban use involve major engineering works, the Development and Airport Division is responsible firstly for investigating the engineering feasibility of such development and secondly, in those schemes which are approved, for the formation of the land and the provision of services.
6.06 The Division is also responsible for re-siting the railway terminus from Tsim Sha Tsui to Hung Hom and for civil engineering works at the Airport.
Planning and Investigation
6.07 Further revision of the Kowloon Bay Development feasibility report was being made and a report was produced on refuse disposal by controlled tipping in the New Territories.
6.08 The Division's annual contract under which site investigations were carried out for all offices of the Department functioned well. The total depth of probes, drill holes, bore holes and open trial pits sunk was 38,847 feet.
Projects under Construction
6.09 Statistical details of land-formation projects under construction are given at Appendix Q and of other projects at Appendices O and P.
6.10 A description of the works carried out is given below under the appropriate district or section headings.
Kowloon
6.11 At Ho Man Tin Development Area, two site formation contracts for Stage X were completed and one contract for Stage VII was started. About 8 acres of land were formed for residential, commercial, educational use and railway realignment.
6.12 Reclamation continued in Kowloon Bay where some 624,000 cubic yards of materials from Government projects and private building sites was deposited to form 29 acres of land.
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