Q 113
4. Cost of Office.-As the Survey Office forms part of the Public Works Department and is accommodated in the same building, the charges for numerous items such as lighting, heating, electric fans, etc., cannot be stated. Omitting these, the following is a statement of the cost:
Salaries,
Conveyance Allowances,
Wages for Coolies,
Land Survey Contingencies,
Transport & Travelling Expenses,
Survey of Colony,
Incidental Expenses,
Surveying Instruments,
Furniture,
Rent Allowances,
$ 51,722.04
3,321.25
7,130.27
18.40
632.85
1,269.49
221.91
334.83
11.80
4,109.76
Total,... $ 68,772.60
work was
Plan (1).
Plan (2).
5. Trigonometrical Survey.-No trigonometrical work carried out during the year.
6. Topographical and Cadastral Surveys.-About 32 miles of minor traverses have been run during the year, mostly in connection with carrying out and filling in the Ordnance Survey of the Colony. Such work has been greatly curtailed owing to the absence on Military Service of 4 members of the European Staff during the whole year, and of two other Europeans who left the Department for War Service during the early part of the year. Portions of the Eastern, Central and Peak Districts, covering an area of about 26 acres, were surveyed and plotted on the Ordnance Sheets on a scale of 50'=1".
At Repulse Bay, on the South side of Hongkong Island, considerable area was surveyed and existing roads and streams shown on a plan plotted to 50'=1" scale with a view to laying out a site for a branch of the Hongkong Hotel and other building areas.
During the year a considerable amount of work was done in connection with the Shamshuipo Reclamation and laying-out scheme, which entailed the resumption of old village lots granted by the Land Court in 1903 and the valuation and subsequent demolition of structures thereon. In most cases where village lots were resumed an arrangement was arrived at with the owners whereby new lots on the lines of an approved and systematic laying out scheme were given in exchange for the old lots, plus the value of structures thereon. During the year, some 33 small holdings were thus dealt and exchanged for 19 new lots, (known as New Kowloon Inland Lots) having a combined area of 105,751 square feet and bringing in an annual Crown Rent of $510.00. The boundaries of the new lots were all carefully surveyed and defined on the ground.
In addition to the above, 79 lots in Hongkong and Kowloon were surveyed and 299 boundary stones bearing the lot numbers were accurately fixed to define the boundaries thereof,
Q 113
4. Cost of Office.-As the Survey Office forms part of the Public Works Department and is accommodated in the same building, the charges for numerous items such as lighting, heating, electric fans, etc., cannot be stated. Omitting these, the following is a statement of the cost:
Salaries,
Conveyance Allowances,
Wages for Coolies,
Land Survey Contingencies,
Transport & Travelling Expenses,
Survey of Colony,
Incidental Expenses,..
Surveying Instruments,
Furniture,
Rent Allowances,
$ 51,722.04
3,321,25
7,130.27
18.40
632.85
1,269.49
221.91
334.83.
11.80
4,109.76
Total,...
$ 68,772.60
work was
Plan (1).
Plan (2).
5. Trigonometrical Survey.-No trigonometrical work carried out during the year.
6. Topographical and Cadastral Surveys.-About 32 miles of minor traverses have been run during the year, mostly in connection with carrying out and filling in the Ordnance Survey of the Colony. Such work has been greatly curtailed owing to the absence on Military Service of 4 members of the European Staff during the whole year, and of two other Europeans who left the Department for War Service during the early part of the year. Portions of the Eastern, Central and Peak Districts, covering an area of about 26 acres, were surveyed and plotted on the Ordnance Sheets on a scale of 50'=1".
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At Repulse Bay, on the South side of Hongkong Island, considerable area was surveyed and existing roads and streams shown on a plan-plotted to 50'1" scale with a view to laying out a site for a branch of the Hongkong Hotel and other building areas.
During the year a considerable amount of work was done in connection with the Shamshuipo Reclamation and laying-out scheme, which entailed the resumption of old village lots granted by the Land Court in 1903 and the valuation and subsequent demolition of structures thereon. In most cases where village lots were resumed an arrangement was arrived at with the owners whereby new lots on the lines of an approved and systematic laying out scheme were given in exchange for the old lots, plus the value of structures thereon. During the year, some 33 small holdings were thus "dealt and exchanged for 19 new lots, (known as New Kowloon Inland Lots) having a combined area of 105,751 square feet and bringing in an annual Crown Rent of $510.00. The boundaries of the new lots were all carefully surveyed and defined on the ground.
In addition to the above, 79 lots in Hongkong and Kowloon were surveyed and 299 boundary stones bearing the lot numbers were accurately fixed to define the boundaries thereof,
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