THE CENTRAL photograph shows how the new airport looks in relation to the old--the runways of the latter being discernible on the strip of ground at the base of the hills in the middle distance. Two sizeable hills at the landward end of the reclamation, which constituted aviation hazards, had to be levelled, incidentally providing dressed stone for the sea-wall and spoil for the reclamation.
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OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS depict: top left, one of the concrete areas of the new runway being laid: bottom left, demolition in progress at the historic Hill of Sung, showing some of the great quantity of dressed stone secured in the process; top right, spoil "being tipped into the sea during construction of the protecting sea-walls and. bottom right, granite blocks for the outer casing of the sea- wall being hoisted into position.
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