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4. Cost of Office. As the Survey Office forms part of the Public Works Department and is accommodated in the same building, the charges for numerous items such as lighting, heating, electric fans, etc., cannot be stated. Omitting these items, the following is a statement of the cost:
Salaries, $111,284.63 Conveyance Allowances, 5,801.13 Wages for Coolies, 10,655.50 Land Survey Contingencies, 5.54 Transport & Travelling Expenses, 1,513.46 Survey of Colony, 4,632.69 Incidental Expenses, 409.23 Rent Allowances, 4,792.09 Total, $139,094.275. Trigonometrical Work.-No trigonometrical work was carried out during the year.
6. Topographical and Cadastral Surveys.-Several extensive surveys were carried out in Hongkong during the year. A survey from Quarry Bay to Shaukiwan including the Quarry Bay District was completed and the centre line of a new 100' road from North Point to Quarry Bay set out. A survey of 7 acres of foreshore at North Point was completed. Repulse Bay Hotel property containing about 11 acres was surveyed and plotted. Survey of portion of Stubbs' Road and the War Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home Site containing about 11 acres was completed, also that portion of Stubbs' Road from Wanchai Gap via Magazine Gap to Coombe Road. A large area at West Bay was contoured also a large area embracing 5 lots at Tytam Bay, area about 15 acres, was surveyed. An area at Wong Chuk Hang, Aberdeen, containing about 10 acres was surveyed and plotted. An extensive survey at Stanley embracing about 40 acres was carried out in connection with applications for building sites. A survey of cultivation on the Island of Cheung Chau, containing about 20 acres was also completed. Extensive laying out schemes were prepared in connection with Town Planning at Mong Kok, Kowloon City, Ho Mun Tin and Hok Un, monuments, &c., were fixed to define centre lines of proposed roads, and necessary exchanges of land required for roads, &c., arranged.
Main traverses were run from Victoria Orphanage Trig. Station to East Battery Trig. Station, East Battery to Gascoigne Road Trig. Station and Gascoigne Road Trig. Station to Tai Kok Tsui Trig. Station. Main traverse points were defined by picket boxes or monuments which also define centre lines of roads.
7. Revenue Surveys.-The applications for purchase of land continued to increase during the year and most of the Surveyors' time was taken up with surveys in connection with building sites, preparation of lease plans re-adjustments of boundaries, setting out lots and fixing boundary stones.