be celebrated by probably live
-may
13. Jantie
ticipate
62
Praya, of the Quays of the Port of Alexandria.
years.
Considerable
saving
in
14.
the cost of construction, but this would be
insignificant compared
both older w and the
part
owner
the Government (as
to the
owner or
I from
of the land to be reclaimed If (1) Interest of money saved during construction; and (2) Return from the land when formed. Estimating the land at five dollars per square foot (and these I understand, within the
and interest at seven per cent) a
the land and money
about $600,000
of a bo
would be gained by shortening the period
of completion by a single year.
Live sixth
- this sum would represent the proportion
of gain
to the landholders, and the remaining
sixth would fall to the Government.
13.
Report,
to explained in my former
the system of weighting
advocated is no new.
adopted
notu
· proposal, but was
success in the construction
ted with great
malogano
under conditions analo
to the Hongkong
Praya
or
Hitherto the
very
extensive Sea
Prayo Walls for Reclamation purposes have been carried out by Chinese Contractors
working after Chinese methods, almost without the aid of European Plant and
machinery.
Plant and
the rubble stone and earth
required for the works are
· brought to the
site in jinko, and the material is
discharged by manual labour. The work has received comparatively little skilled technical supervision:
million tons
are Mo
of
isione. Now
as come
44/2
material (stone and earth)
required for the works included on the Praya Ordinance of 1889, it is more than
probable that
appliances for economising
labour must result in a considerable
saving of
both time and money. I propose
therefore to go carefully into the question,
as early as practicable, of the advantages
that would accrue
from
the substitution
of Hopper Barges towed by steam power,
for the jinks
-hitherto exclusively used in
Hongkong