GEOLOGICAL SURVEY? WATER SUPPLY. AND MINING CONTROL.
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Introduction.
I arrived at Hong Kong on June 22nd, 1948, and am due to leave on June 28th. Apart from a preliminary conversation
with the Colonial Secretary, I have had discussions with the Director of Public Works and his Water Engineer staff, and with the District Officer, New Territories. I have examined the
files put at my disposal, and I spent two days in the New Territories seeing a little of the geological, mining and water-
supply problems there. Little time has remained in which to
draw up this statement, and I have accordingly been able to do little more than state my conclusions and rocommondations matters that have been brought to my attention.
on the
I am glad to acknowledge the assistance I have received throughout from Dr. S. G. Davis. Ho accompanied mo on my visits to the Now Territorios, and his knowlodge of the local goological, mining and other conditions has been of the greatest assistanco
to me.
Goological Survey.
While thore has been no official geological survey
of Hong Kong, an excellent detailed account of the goology of Hong Kong has been prepared by Profossors Brock and M.Y. Williams, and staff, of the University of British Columbia during tho
period 1926-35.
Unfortunately some of this work was lost during
the war, but the present position is as follows
Apart from several short papers already published,
the University is preparing a copy of the original detailed report on the geology of Hong Kong by Professor Brock and others. As part of the survey manuscript maps on the scale of 1/20,000 wore propared, but these appear to have been lost unless they can be traced in Japan. Those maps were, howevor, used as a basis for a geological map on the scale of approximately 1/84,000, which was published in colours by the British Ordinance Survoy in 1935. Practically all copies of this map wore lost, but onc
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