MEMORANDUM
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A large part of the New Territories consists of islands
and broken country with a deeply indented coastline where rad
communication is difficult and in most places non-existent. Over
these areas the natural element of communication is water and the small
rural communities living in these outlying parts are, in many cases,
entirely dependent upon ferries and other small craft for bringing
their produce to the principal markets in Hong Kong and Kowloon. The
construction of piers at focal points in the islands and the less
accessible portions of the mainland is therefore of great importance.
New Pier at Cheung Chati..
4 Cheung Chau (grid 404893 in G.S.G.S. 3868) is the most
important fishing port in the Colony, and contains the densest
population (probably 20,000) of any island in the New Territories.
Normally hundreds of boats are based there. There are two piers,
one used almost exclusively by the ferries and. Police, and the other
by the general public. The latter was built by local subscription
many years ago, is out of date and inadequate, and is so rickety
as to be unlikely to stand another typhoon season. It would be
uneconomical to repair. It is therefore necessary to build a new
modern pier. The new pier, besides filling a long-standing need of
the general public, would be regularly used by the launches of the
Fish Marketing organization.
With the increased amount of shipping which can be
expected to use the new pier it will be necessary to widen the
waterfront roadway in the immediate neighbourhood of the pier. This
roadway is narrow and totally inadequate in view of the amount of
fish and cargo loaded and off-loaded here. It is therefore proposed to
extend the existing bund 30 feet seawards in the area of the pier, the
reclamation to be continued further along the shore at Government
expense when the ferry pier is rebuilt (see (a) below).
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