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Thursday, October 6, 1977

PWD ALARDS $3.7 14 COPTRACT FOR MUI WO PIŁK

The Public Works Department today awarded an $8.7 million

contract for the construction of a ferry pier at Mul Wo (Silvermine

Bay), Lantau Island, to Harbour engineering Co. Ltd.

The contract, which forms part of a programme to develop

Mui Wo into a rural township, was formally signed in the Sha Tin

Government Offices this morning.

Mr. Bosco Keown, senior engineer of P.W.D.'s New Territories

Development Branch, said that work on the new pier, which aims to

cope with the increasing number of visitors to Lantau Island, would

begin later this month and finish in about 18 months' time.

He said that facilities at the existing one-berth ferry

terminal at Mui Wo were inadequate to cope with the peak summer traffic

of 30,000 passengers a day.

"The new pier has been designed to cater for the largest

ferries and will be 78 metres long with two decks and berths on both

sides," kr. Keown said.

"A dolphin and Movable ramp will also be constructed on the

southern side of the pier to allow for the berthing of vehicular ferries."

The development of Hui Wo will move another step forward

tomorrow when the Public Works Department invites tenders for a

major engineering project.

The project comprises the formation of about four hectures

of land to be reclaimed from the sea to provide sites for a sewage

treatment plant, an abattoir, the second phase of a public housing

estate, a helipad and other government uses.

/. Beavell