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Works carried out and charged to loan funds.
232. Hong Kong Air Port.—Several plans were prepared by the Architectural Office in connection with the Layout Scheme for the Air Port.
A contract was let on 20th September, 1928 to Messrs. Sang Lee & Co. for $310,250.00 in connection with the work being carried out by the General Works Office.
The work has been divided into the following sub-heads and the undernoted progress has been made on each.
(a) Resumptions.—Permanent and temporary resumptions were made and crop compensation agreed upon for the purpose of laying a light railway track to the site of the cutting face, over a length of approximately 2,000 feet.
Estimates, Expenditure, $1,186,250.00 $1,091,579.10(b) Forming reclamation including completion of sea walls, nullahs, surfacing and drainage.—Under this head approximately 600 lineal feet of centre pier were built in No. 2 nullah and approximately 6,000 cubic yards of earth surfacing deposited on the reclamation.
(c) Covering of nullahs.—All steel for the reinforcement of the decking to nullahs was received from England and about 600 lineal feet of decking were laid on No. 2 nullah.
Estimates, Expenditure, $275,000.00 $104,339.15(d) Sea Plane Slipway:-This work which is being carried out by the Port Works Office includes the construction of a slipway 380 feet in length and 40 feet in width, at a grade of 1 in 20, having at its outer end a depth of 6 feet of water at L.W.O.S.T., the diversion of a nullah on the west side of the slipway site and the reclamation of a site for aircraft sheds. A contract was let on 10th July for the construction of the work less the erection of the sheds. The work executed up to the end of the year included the dredging of 12,500 cu. yds. of silt overlying the hard, the deposition of 15,300 cu. yds. of pell-mell rubble to provide foundations for the slipway, nullah diversion and reclamation sea wall and the manufacture of 353 concrete paving blocks for surfacing the slipway. The blocks varied in size from 6 feet 8 inches x 3 feet 6 inches x 2 feet to 5 feet × 3 feet 6 inches x 2 feet. Approximately 57,561 cu. yds. of material was deposited to form the site for the sea plane sheds.
Total Estimates, Expenditure to 31.12.28, $275,000.00 $60,502.78