CO129-626-10 Constructions of piers to improve communications 1-2-1950 - 28-2-1951 — Page 15

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by

a grant of £48,883 for the construction of two piers, in the

New Territories, is the outcomes

2. A large part of the New Territories consists of islands

and broken country with a deeply indented coastline where road

communication is difficult and in most places non-existent.

Over

many of these areas the natural element of communication is water and the small

d the rural communities living in these outlying parts are, in many 92505,

entirely dependent upon ferries and other small craft for bringing

their produce to the principal markets in Hong Kong and Kowloon. The

construction of piers at focal points in the islands and the less

accessible portions of the mainland is therefore of great importance.

3. Cheung Chau is the most important fishing port in the

Leains Colony, and contains the densest population (probably 20,000) of

any island in the New Territories. Normally hundreds of boats are

based there. There are two piers, one used almost exclusively by

the ferries and Police, and the other by the general public. The

latter was built by local-

many years ago, is out of

date and inadequate, and is se rickety as to be unlikely to stand

another typhoon season. It would be uneconomical to repair. It

which, is therefore necessary to build a new modern pier. The new pier,

besides filling a long-standing need of the general public, would

be regularly used by the launches of the Fish Marketing organiza-

With the increased amount of shipping which can be expected to

use the new pier it will be necessary to widen the waterfront

roadway in the immediate neighbourhood of the pier, This roadway

is narrow and totally inadequate in view of the amount of fish

tion.

make it

and cargo loaded and off-loaded here. It is therefore proposed to

Mextend

extend the existing bund 30 feet seawards in the area of the pier;

would

the reclamation be continued further along the shore at

Government expense when the ferry pier is rebuilt.

45 Tai O is the largest centre (about 8,000) of population

His proposed to extend the

on Lantao Island, and the fourth fishing port of the Colony. The h

what this

present pier provides depth of water sufficient only for sampans, so