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Surveys.
The following lots were surveyed and boundaries defined on the ground—754, 782, 2511, 373B, 375B, 376, 377, 380, 382, 516, 517, 520, 770 in D.D. 121. 4487 and adjoining lots D.D. 51.
Ying Pun.—Area surveyed for proposed building sites about five acres.
Hung Shui.—Area surveyed ten acres.
Pan Chung Village.—Area surveyed one acre.
Ts'un Wan.—Area surveyed and plotted seventy-eight acres with a chainage of 9.75 miles.
Kwan Ti.—Area surveyed and plotted twenty-five acres with a chainage of 7,500 feet.
Shan Tseng.—Area surveyed and plotted four acres.
Fanling.—Various detail East of the Sha Tau Kok Road was surveyed and plotted. Area 7.5 acres with a chainage of 20,000 feet.
Tai O.—The survey of this village was revised.
Cheung Chau.—The survey of the Island was revised. The areas surveyed and plotted being about twenty acres in the village and 150 acres in the European residential area.
Fifty piers in various parts of the New Territories were surveyed and plotted and the areas computed.
The annual perambulation of the Anglo-Chinese Frontier was carried out for the purpose of inspecting boundary marks.
WORKS UNDER THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.
323. Continued activity in all classes of building work was manifest throughout the Colony in the year under review, a notable feature being the increase in the number of European type houses. There was also a greater number of Chinese tenement houses erected than in the previous year.
324. In Kowloon, the European type development continued along Prince Edward Road, and areas adjoining, and also at Kowloon Point, while in Hong Kong similar activity continued in areas at Wong Nei Chong, Tai Hang and Causeway Bay.
On the Praya East Reclamation, the number of Chinese tenement houses increased rapidly, 360 being completed during the year, with over 200 more in course of erection. In Kowloon, the development of this type of house was most noticeable in the Tai Kok Tsui and Sham Shui Po areas.