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From this should be deducted the sum of $29,590.65 being the total amount of the salaries of Messrs. Lambert, Hallowes and Womack during the period they were seconded to Crown Lands Sub-Department. The total expenditure for the year was therefore $204,579.61.
7. Visits.-Brigadier H. St. J. L. Winterbotham C.M.G., D.S.O., R.E. reached Hong Kong on 12th April, 1930, during the course of his comprehensive tour of inspection of the Colonial Survey Departments. He left for Shanghai on April 28th. Whilst in Hong Kong he enquired thoroughly into the working of and the methods employed by the Survey Office generally and also visited the Surveyors in the field in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories.
An exhaustive report covering a wide field was prepared and his recommendations, which are of the greatest value, have received the careful consideration of the Government.
TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEYS.
8. Tertiary triangulation for values of beacons at Tai Lam Chung, Sum Tseng and Tsin Wan was carried out for the purpose of checking the values of seven traverse stations on the Kowloon-Castle Peak Road. The values of these stations were corrected and adjusted accordingly.
9. Concrete beacons were erected over the three stations mentioned above and the beacons at Beacon Hill and Diamond Hill which had been destroyed were re-built. The annual inspection of triangulation stations was carried out and repairs were made to beacons where necessary. The frontier Boundary was perambulated during the year and the Boundary Stones repaired where found necessary.
REVENUE SURVEYS AND GENERAL.
10. Surveys were made in detail for plans to be attached to Crown Leases of 521 lots. These surveys entailed very accurate measurement of all boundaries, dimensions in every case being given to the nearest inch making errors in computation infinitesimal.