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There were also 29 survey coolies receiving wages at rates varying from $8 to $11 per month according to service. Total wages for year $2,928.
3. Cost of Department.—As the survey office forms part of the Public Works Department and is accommodated in the same building, which is known as the Government Offices, there are numerous charges, such as those for lighting, heating, electric fans, &c., which cannot be stated. Omitting charges of such a nature, the following is a statement of the cost:-
Salaries, $ 36,651.50
Conveyance Allowances, 2,578.79
Drawing Materials and mounting plans, 660.26
Surveying Instruments, 489.82
Wages of Coolies, 2,928.00
Land Survey Contingencies (largely cost of advertising land sales, &c.), 1,265.70
Miscellaneous Expenses, 429.43
Triangulation of Colony, 1,095.97
Total, $ 46,099.47
4. Trigonometrical Work.—As no survey of the Colony had been made since that carried out by Lieut. Collinson in 1845 (his plan contains many inaccuracies), it was decided in 1908 that a proper Ordnance Map should be built up on correct triangulation and this work was commenced early in 1909. The staff then consisted of six surveyors, exclusive of the Principal Land Surveyor, three of whom had been appointed during the two previous years. The necessity for this considerable increase and further additions subsequently made was partly due to difficulties and delays which had occurred in procuring qualified men and to sickness among the staff which caused the survey work to fall so seriously into arrear that it has not yet been found possible to overtake it.
In addition to Collinson's map, which was on a scale of 4 inches to the mile, there were in existence plans of various portions of the Colony, such as the City of Victoria, the Hill District, Kowloon, the principal villages, &c., but in most cases these had been produced in a piecemeal fashion and were far from accurate. As will be seen from the following statement no uniformity of scale had been observed in the preparation of these plans :-
City of Victoria, 1"-160 feet. Hill District, 1"-250 feet. Kowloon, 1/2,500 or 1"-208.33 feet. Aberdeen Village, 1"-40 feet. Shaukiwan Village, 1"-50 feet.The above remarks refer to the Colony proper. In the case of the New Territories, ceded in 1898, a map had been prepared by a Survey Party from India during the years 1898-1904, but so many of the traverse points have since been destroyed by the native population, who were unfriendly at first to British rule, that it was
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There were also 29 survey coolies receiving wages at rates vary- ing from $8 to $11 per monthì according to service. Total wages for year $2,928.
3. Cost of Department.-As the survey office forms part of the Public Works Department and is accommodated in the same build- ing, which is known as the Government Offices, there are numerous charges, such as those for lighting, heating, electric fans, &c., which cannot be stated. Omitting charges of such a nature, the following is a statement of the cost:-
Salaries,
Conveyance Allowances,
Drawing Materials and mounting plans, Surveying Instruments,
$ 36,651.50
2,578.79
Wages of Coolies,
2,928.00
660.26
489.82
Land Survey Contingencies (largely cost
1,265.70
Miscellaneous Expenses,....
429.43
1,095.97
.$ 46,099.47
of advertising land sales, &c.), .
Triangulation of Colony,
Total.
4. Trigonometrical Work.--As no survey of the Colony harl been made since that carried out by Lieut. Collinson in 1845 (his plan contains many inaccuracies), it was decided in 1908 that a proper Ordnance Map should be built up on correct triangulation and this work was commenced early in 1909. The staff then con- sisted of six surveyors, exclusive of the Principal Land Surveyor, three of whom had been appointed during the two previous years. The necessity for this considerable increase and further additions subsequently made was partly due to difficulties and delays which had occurred in procuring qualified men and to sickness among the staff which caused the survey work to fall so seriously into arrear that it has not yet been found possible to overtake it.
In addition to Collinson's map, which was on a scale of 4 inches to the mile, there were in existence plans of various portions of the Colony, such as the City of Victoria, the Hill District, Kowloon, the principal villages, &c., but in most cases these had been produced in a piecemeal fashion and were far from accurate. As will be seen from the following statement no uniformity of scale had been observed in the preparation of these plans :-
City of Victoria,
Hill District, Kowloon,
Aberdeen Village,
Shaukiwan Village,
+
1":-160 feet. 1"-250 feet.
—
1/2,500 or 1"-208-33 feet. 1"-40 feet.
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1"-50 feet.
The above remarks refer to the Colony proper. In the case of the New Territories, ceded in 1898, a map had been prepared by a Survey Party from India during the years 1898-1904, but so many of the traverse points have since been destroyed by the native population, who were unfriendly at first to British rule, that it was
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