195. Diving inspections were carried out on various piers and seawalls in addition to miscellaneous diving works under a rock taken for the Marine Department and Drainage Office, which obstructed the approach to Castle Peak Pier, was removed by underwater blasting, and the total of 400 hours actually spent underwater by the Government divers is indicative of the demands which were made upon their services.
196. Public dumping in reclamations at Cheung Sha Wan, Hung Hom, and Kennedy Town produced 264,000 cubic yards of filling during the year.
New Star Ferry Piers.
New Construction
197. The contract for the construction of these piers, each comprising two arms joined by a base forming a U and providing four berths on either side of the harbour, was let on the 1st of October, 1955. Work commenced simultaneously both at the Hong Kong and Kowloon pier sites. The programme was complicated, as:
(a) the new Kowloon pier had to be constructed over the site of the old pier without interrupting the ferry service, which at present carries approximately 40 million passengers per year with a five-minute service at rush hours.
(b) work on the Hong Kong pier had to be co-ordinated with the removal and re-siting of the twin 21-inch diameter cross-harbour mains, which carry drinking water from Kowloon and the New Territories to Hong Kong. These mains lay across the site of the eastern arm of the pier.
(c) it was not originally thought possible to run ferries from an old pier to a new pier, so that two new berths had to be made available on both sides of the harbour before the service could be diverted to the new piers and so make it possible to complete the Kowloon pier.
198. The western arm of the Kowloon pier and the eastern arm of the Hong Kong pier were completed on schedule by the end of the year. In the meantime, experiments had been carried out on the ferry boats, which proved that it was possible to provide additional 2nd-class entrances on the lower deck, so that the boat could operate between an old and a new pier. In view
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195. Diving inspections were carried out on various piers and seawalls in addition to miscellaneous diving works under- A rock taken for the Marine Department and Drainage Office. which obstructed the approach to Castle Peak Pier was removed by underwater blasting, and the total of 400 hours actually spent underwater by the Government divers is indicative of the demands which were made upon their services.
196. Public dumping in reclamations at Cheung Sha Wan, Hung Hom and Kennedy Town produced 264,000 cubic yards of filling during the year.
New Star Ferry Piers.
New Construction
197. The contract for the construction of these piers, each comprising two arms joined by a base forming a U and pro- viding four berths on either side of the harbour, was let on the 1st of October 1955. Work commenced simultaneously both at the Hong Kong and Kowloon pier sites. The programme was complicated, as:
(a) the new Kowloon pier had to be constructed over the site of the old pier without interrupting the ferry ser- vice which at present carries approximately 40 million passengers per year with a five minute service at rush hours.
(b) work on the Hong Kong pier had to be co-ordinated with the removal and re-siting of the twin 21 inch diameter cross harbour mains which carry drinking water from Kowloon and the New Territories to Hong Kong. These mains lay across the site of the eastern arm of the pier. (c) it was not originally thought possible to run ferries from an old pier to a new pier so that two new berths had to be made available on both sides of the harbour before the service could be diverted to the new piers and so make it possible to complete the Kowloon pier.
198. The western arm of the Kowloon pier and the eastern arm of the Hong Kong pier were completed on schedule by the end of the year. In the meantime experiments had been carried out on the ferry boats which proved that it was possible to provide additional 2nd class entrances on the lower deck so that the boat could operate between an old and a new pier. In view
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