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granite was completed to retain the reclamation fill. Behind the 1,000 feet of sea-wall the reclamation has been carried out by the public dumping of spoil from the development of building sites at a steady rate of 500 to 600 cub. yards daily to add a valuable 5 acres of waterfront ground for sale to godown, shipping or manufacturing interests. One quarter of the length of the sea-wall built under this contract was constructed as a quay wall to give a minimum of 10 feet of water fronting the new Port Works Office depôt and concrete casting yard. To facilitate the handling of heavy (20-ton) concrete blocks or the movement of heavy plant by lighter across the harbour, a loading basin with ramp was built into that portion of the wall within the depôt.
143. Improvements to Ferry Piers:- With the volume of cross-harbour passenger and vehicular traffic steadily increasing, ways and means were sought to provide further amenities.
144. An experimental ferry service had been started, running from the Public Pier at Tonnochy Road, Wanchai, to the Ferry Terminal at Jordan Road, in Kowloon. To shelter the pier users a roof of structural steel and R.P.M. sheets was erected and a pontoon moored alongside to overcome the lack of gangways. Almost from its inception this service carried approximately one million passengers per month, amply justifying the experiment.
145. A similar experimental ferry service on the lines of the above was instituted in August 1950 to run from the Wilmer Street pier on the Island to the same terminal in Kowloon.
146. On the Shamshuipo Pier at Kowloon the sheltered waiting area for passengers was substantially increased by the construction of a reinforced concrete barrel vaulted roofing at the open concourse area.
147. At the Jordan Road ferry terminal in Kowloon a serious over-crowding of the first class waiting area was relieved when the covered waiting area was extended to three times its original size and a further 1,600 square feet of concrete roofing was built outside the waiting area for the protection of passengers boarding buses.
148. Kai Tak Airport:- One of the more important works carried out during the year was the resurfacing of the runways at Kai Tak Airport and the construction of a new taxi track and additional hard-standing area. The original system of runways at Kai Tak had been radically changed by the Japanese during the occupation years. They had constructed new runways some 4,700 feet long of poor quality concrete on a granite bottoming averaging 10" in thickness. Although the runways might have been described as being up to Dakota standard they proved
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granite was completed to retain the reclamation fill. Behind the 1,000 feet of sea-wall the reclamation has been carried out by the public dumping of spoil from the development of building sites at a steady rate of 500 to 600 cub, yards daily to add a valuable 5 acres of waterfront ground for sale to godown, shipping or manufacturing interests. One quarter of the length of the sea-wall built under this contract was constructed as a quay wall to give a minimum of 10 feet of water fronting the new Port Works Office depôt and concrete casting yard. To facilitate the handling of heavy (20-ton) concrete blocks or the movement of heavy plant by lighter across the harbour, a loading basin with ramp was built into that portion of the wall within the depôt.
143. Improvements to Ferry Piers:- With the volume of cross- harbour passenger and vehicular traffic steadily increasing, ways and means were sought to provide further amenities.
144. An experimental ferry service had been started, running from the Public Pier at Tonnochy Road, Wanchai, to the Ferry Terminal at Jordan Road, in Kowloon. To shelter the pier users a roof of structural steel and R.P.M. sheets was erected and a pontoon moored alongside to overcome the lack of gangways. Almost from its inception this service carried approximately one million passengers per month, amply justifying the experiment.
145. A similar experimental ferry service on the lines of the above was instituted in August 1950 to run from the Wilmer Street pier on the Island to the same terminal in Kowloon.
146. On the Shamshuipo Pier at Kowloon the sheltered waiting area for passengers was substantially increased by the construction of a reinforced concrete barrel vaulted roofing at the open concourse area.
147. At the Jordan Road ferry terminal in Kowloon a serious over- crowding of the first class waiting area was relieved when the covered waiting area was extended to three times its original size and a further 1,600 square feet of concrete roofing was built outside the waiting area for the protection of passengers boarding buses.
148. Kai Tak Airport:- One of the more important works carried out during the year was the resurfacing of the runways at Kai Tak Airport and the construction of a new taxi track and additional hard- standing area. The original system of runways at Kai Tak had been radically changed by the Japanese during the occupation years. They had constructed new runways some 4,700 feet long of poor quality concrete on a granite bottoming averaging 10" in thickness. Although the runways might have been described as being up to Dakota standard they proved
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