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survey of the last-mentioned area was carried out by a surveyor who was engaged locally until an officer could be obtained from England. Upon the arrival of the latter, it was discovered that the whole of the work had been falsified and was therefore useless. A re-survey of the entire area was put in hand and was about half finished at the end of the year. The survey of the Kowloon Peninsula has been proceeded with and about half of it has been completed and plotted to a scale of 50 feet to 1 inch. The general survey of the Peak District has been commenced and connected by traverses with the lower levels. As there was a noticeable difference in the lengths of the 100-feet steel tapes in use as compared with the "Konstat" Standard 100-feet wire obtained in 1909 for purposes of base measurement, a new 100-feet steel tape was sent to Kew Observatory to be checked and, as the result, it was found that the difference was due to temperature and when due allowance for this had been made, it was practically in agreement with the "Konstat" wire. The composition of the "Koustat" wire renders it immune to the effects of changes of temperature. Thirty main triangulation stations were fixed in Hongkong, Kowloon and the New Territories and five minor stations in the New Territories; 26 main stations and 6 minor stations were visited and all these with one exception valued and all triangles valued and closed. Triangulation has been extended to Deep Bay connecting up with the survey of the Anglo-Chinese boundary along the coast of Deep Bay and the Oyster Beds. A surveyor has been stationed in the New Territories since May and, in addition to carrying out certain triangulation work, he surveyed fourteen villages of which eleven were plotted on the 1600 scale Ordnance Maps. These villages contained nearly 2,200 houses.
16. Sites for booths at the Race Course,--A sum of $8,504.25 was realized by the letting of sites for the erection of booths and stands at Happy Valley during the Race Meeting.
17. Squatters.-During the year, lease plans were forwarded to the Land Officer of 18 Squatters' Villages.
13. Military Lands.-Owing to shortness of staff, it was not possible to prepare surveys of any of the outstanding Military Lands for Agreements as arranged for in the Lewis Memorandum.
Twelve small areas, containing about 21 acres, at Shap Pat Wat Village in the New Territories, known to the Military Authorities as Crown Point, were resumed by the Colonial Government and handed over to the Military Authorities, rent free, for the remainder of the term of lease from China, the sum of $28.01 being credited to the Colonial Government in the Colonial Military Lands Account.
The following transfers were made by the Military Authorities to the Naval Authorities with the concurrence of the Colonial Government, viz., Parts of Arsenal Yard and Magazines near Victoria Barracks, and Kellett Island.
Permission was granted for the following encroachments by the War Department on Colonial Government Land, viz.
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