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 items, the following is a statement of the cost :-
Salaries, $ 98,873.38 Conveyance Allowances, 5,288.28 Wages for Coolies, 9,955.71 Land Survey Contingencies, 10.50 Transport & Travelling Expenses, 677.06 Survey of Colony, 1,880.13 Incidental Expenses, 349.60 Rent Allowances, 3,343.10 Total, $120,377.765. Trigonometrical Survey.-No trigonometrical work was carried out during the year except that mentioned in paragraph 7.
6. Topographical and Cadastral Survey.-No extensive surveys were carried out in Hongkong during the year. A contour survey of a large area of building land at Repulse Bay was made embracing 46.03 acres and a similar area at West Bay was contoured containing 2168 acres. Surveys of the New Motor Road from Gap Road to Wanchai Gap were undertaken and plotted on Ordnance Survey as were also Severn and Lugard Roads and the new road below Mount Davis.
Most of the Surveyors' time was taken up on work in connection with applications for building sites and also on surveys required for lease plans and readjustments of boundaries, setting out building lots, and fixing boundary stones. The survey of Aberdeen District was checked with a view of tying it on to Ordnance values; this is still in hand.
A number of proposed roads in Kowloon City, Ma Tau Chung, Hau Pui Loong, To Kwa Wan, Shek Shan and Hok Un Districts were set out and defined by monuments.
Setting out plans were prepared of the following roads, and picket boxes, &c., fixed to define centre lines-Kowloon City to Mong Kok Tsui Road; Coronation Road (from Soy Street to Ivy Street); Argyle Street (West of Railway) and Shanghai Street from Waterloo Road to Taipo Road).
The boundaries of the Kowloon-Canton Railway from South Tunnel Face to Terminus were defined on the ground and plans prepared.
The Ordnance Survey of villages in the New Territories was continued in the latter part of the year, a number of main and minor traverses being run and Kam Shan Village surveyed and plotted.
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 items, the following is a state- ment of the cost :-
Salaries,
Conveyance Allowances,
Wages for Coolies,
Land Survey Contingencies,
Transport & Travelling Expenses,..
Survey of Colony,
Incidental Expenses,
Rent Allowances,
Total,...
$ 98,873.38
5,288.28
9,955.71
10.50
677.06
1.880.13
349.60
3,343.10
$120,377.76
5. Trigonometrical. Surrey.-No trigonometrical work was carried out during the year except that mentioned in paragraph 7.
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6. Topographical and Cadastral Survey.-No extensive surveys were carried out in Hongkong during the year. A contour survey of a large area of building land at Repulse Bay was made embrac- ing 46°03 acres and a similar area at West Bay was contoured containing 2168 acres. Surveys of the New Motor Road from Gap Road to Wanchai Gap were undertaken and plotted on Ordnance Survey as were also Severn and Lugard Roads and the new road below Mount Davis.
Most of the Surveyors' time was taken up on work in connec- tion with applications for building sites and also on surveys required for lease plans and readjustments of boundaries, setting out building lots, and fixing boundary stones. The survey of Aberdeen District was checked with a view of tying it on to Ordnance values; this is still in hand.
A number of proposed roads in Kowloon City, Ma Tau Chung, Hau Pui Loong, To Kwa Wan, Shek Shan and Hok Un Districts were set out and defined by monuments.
Setting out plans were prepared of the following roads, and picket boxes, &c., fixed to define centre lines-Kowloon City to Mong Kok Tsui Road; Coronation Road (from Soy Street to Ivy Street); Argyle Street (West of Railway) and Shanghai Street from Waterloo Road to Taipo Road).
The boundaries of the Kowloon-Canton Railway from South Tunnel Face to Terminus were defined on the ground and plans prepared.
The Ordnance Survey of villages in the New Territories was continued in the latter part of the year, a number of main and minor traverses being run and Kam Shan Village surveyed and plotted.
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