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laid down, viz., 12,500 and 13,000 respectively. In only a few cases has it been found necessary to go over a traverse a second time to maintain this standard of accuracy.
Mr. Reed has been stationed in the New Territories since May, 1910, and, in addition to extending the triangulation work already referred to, has surveyed and plotted on the Scale Ordnance Maps fourteen villages which contain nearly 2,200 houses.
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In connection with the preparation of the Ordnance Maps referred to in paragraph 4 of last year's report, a great deal of work has been carried out in Kowloon, about half the Peninsula having been surveyed and plotted to the larger scale (1″--50 feet). The areas dealt with included the whole of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company's premises at Hung Hom and an area of about 80 acres known as King's Park.
On the Hongkong side, a large portion of the Pokfulam district, comprising an area of over 300 acres, was surveyed in connection with the issue of Farm Lot Leases. The work was undertaken by Mr. Forbes, who was engaged temporarily until a surveyor could be obtained from England. Mr. H. West, the new surveyor deputed to complete this survey, discovered after Mr. Forbes had left the Department that the whole of the work had been falsified and was therefore useless. A re-survey of the entire area was put in hand and was about half finished at the end of the year. A general survey of the Hill District has been commenced and connected by traverses with the lower levels.
6. Cadastral Work—All questions relating to land in the New Territories were settled in 1900-05 by a Land Court on the basis of the cadastral maps prepared by the Survey Party from India and it has not been found necessary to again deal with the matter.
In Hongkong and Kowloon, the cultivated areas are of small extent and any surveys required in connection with them were completed prior to the 31st March, 1909. Consequently, no cadastral work has been done during the period under review.
7. Special Work.—Reclamation Scheme, Cheung Sha Wan.—The work of fixing permanent monuments to define the intersection points of roads comprised in this scheme, was started in August by Mr. Grey. Centre lines were very carefully set out, measured and re-measured, allowances being made for expansion due to temperature, etc., and an independent traverse was run to check the "centre line traverse" which closed to 1 in 24,000. The three concentric curves which the roads follow near Lai Chi Kok were calculated and set out in short chords, and dimensions of 44 irregular lots were then worked out. Finally 50 concrete monuments defining the centre points of the various junctions of roads were established and numbered, and 26 traverse points were cemented in, the entire work being tied in with the Triangulation Survey of the Colony. A plan was prepared giving detailed information as to bearings, distances, and positions of monuments, etc. The total distance traversed in carrying out these operations was 5½ miles, which occupied 59 days' field work and 18 days in office.
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laid down, riz., 12,500 and 13,000 respectively. In only a few cases has it been found necessary to go over a traverse a second time to maintain this standard of accuracy.
Mr. Reed has been stationed in the New Territories since May, 1910, and, in addition to extending the triangulation work already referred to, has surveyed and plotted on the Scale Ordnance Maps fourteen villages which contain nearly 2,200 houses.
600
In connection with the preparation of the Ordnance Maps referred to in paragraph 4 of last year's report, a great deal of work has been carried out in Kowloon, about half the Peninsula having been surveyed and plotted to the larger scale (1′′--50 feet). The areas dealt with included the whole of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company's premises at Hung Hom and an area of about 80 acres known as King's Park.
On the Hongkong side, a large portion of the Pokfulam district, comprising an area of over 300 acres, was surveyed in connection with the issue of Farm Lot Leases. The work was undertaken by Mr. Forbes, who was engaged temporarily until a surveyor could be obtained from England. Mr. H. West, the new surveyor deputed to complete this survey, discovered after Mr. Forbes had left the Department that the whole of the work had been falsified and was therefore useless. A re-survey of the entire area was put in hand and was about half finished at the end of the year. A general survey of the Hill District has been commenced and connected by traverses with the lower levels.
6. Cadastral Work-All questions relating to land in the New Territories were settled in 1900-05 by a Laud Court on the basis of of the cadastral maps prepared by the Survey Party from India and it has not been found necessary to again deal with the matter.
In Hongkong and Kowloon, the cultivated areas are of small extent and any surveys required in connection with them were completed prior to the 31st March, 1909. Consequently, no cadastral work has been done during the period under review.
7. Special Work.—Reclamation Scheme, Cheung Sha Wan.-The work of fixing permanent monuments to define the intersection points of roads comprised in this scheme, was started in August by Mr. Grey. Centre lines were very carefully set out, measured and re-measured, allowances being made for expansion due to temperature, etc., and an independent traverse was run to check the "centre line traverse" which closed to 1 in 24,000. The three concentric curves which the roads follow near Lai Chi Kok were calculated and set out in short chords, and dimensions of 44 irregular lots were then worked out. Finally 50 concrete monuments defining the centre points of the various junctions of roads were established and numbered, and 26 traverse points were cemented in, the entire work being tied in with the Triangulation Survey of the Colony. A plan was prepared giving detailed information as to bearings, distances, and positions of monuments, etc. The total distance traversed in carrying out these operations was 5¦ miles, which occupied 59 days' field work and 18 days in office.
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