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Two Indian Sub-Surveyors and twenty Indian chain-men were engaged upon the work, which was connected at two points with the trigonometrical survey, upon which the topographical survey is based.

The area cadastrally surveyed during the year amounted to 11,087 acres including 226,588 fields. Compared with the area surveyed during 1900, when 35,257 acres, including 226,588 fields, were dealt with, the result seems small, but the difference is accounted for by the work of demarcation being carried on simul- taneously with the survey and by the small dimensions of the fields, which neces- sitated the use of a greatly enlarged scale in order to admit of their being properly mapped. It was found necessary to increase the scale of the maps from 16 inches to 32 inches to the mile-a change which enables the villages to be shown in detail instead of being blocked in as in the case of the smaller scale.

The staff engaged upon this portion of the work consisted of one Inspector, 21 Surveyors and about 20 Indian and 40 Chinese coolies, but towards the end of the year it was reinforced by the addition of another Inspector, 28 Surveyors and 48 trained Survey coolies, who were recruited from India, whilst about 60 Chinese coolies were employed. Ten of the new Surveyors were detailed to demarcate the areas which had been surveyed during 1900.

The following were the areas surveyed :

District.

Sha Tau Kok,.

Sheung Ü,

Kowloon,...

Tung Hoi, Mirs Bay,..

Lan Tao,

Sub-Districts.

The whole.

...Shun Wan, Tsoi Hang, Lam Tsin, Hop Wo and portions of Lung

Yeuk Tau.

Portion of Kau Yeuk.

Cheung Muk Tau.

.Peng Chau, Kat and Double

Islands.

.....Tung Chung and Mui Wo

The work of demarcating the areas surveyed during 1900 was undertaken in August, and up to the 31st December there had been completed 21,810 acres containing 128,628 fields which formed 68,148 holdings. The several areas of these holdings were all worked out and tabulated and the owners' names recorded. As already mentioned, demarcation work was carried out in conjunction with the survey during 1901.

A good deal of sickness occurred among the staff, one Inspector and 3 coolies dying during the course of the year, and one Surveyor and 2 coolies being invalided back to India. Four Surveyors were discharged on account of incompetence.

52. Byewash Reservoir, Tytam.—A contract was entered into toward the close of the year for the construction of a reservoir below the byewash of Tytam Reservoir. In addition to intercepting the overflow of the old reservoir, it will receive the overflow of the west catchwater as well as a stream which has hitherto escaped collection.

53. City and Hill District Waterworks.

(i.) Motor at Bowen Road Filter Beds.-This motor is placed between the filter beds and the service reservoir below Bowen Road, east of the Military Hospital site. It is so designed as to be capable of pumping alternatively into the service reservoirs at a level of 650 feet above Ordnance datum for the supply of the high levels of the city, or into a reservoir to be constructed on Mount Gough, 1,515 feet

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