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from public dumping diminished and contracts had to be let so that fill could be brought by barge from Kowloon Bay and material obtained from a site formation project in Tin Hau Temple Road. This was necessary to enable the programme of reclamation at Wan Chai and Causeway Bay to be maintained.

At Causeway Bay work started in August on a seawall to retain the reclamation required for the new waterfront road. The break- waters at Aberdeen, which will form a new typhoon shelter, were nearing completion at the end of the year. In Kowloon, at Cheung Sha Wan, the last section of seawall needed to retain the reclamation was completed. Work continued on the construction of a new government dockyard at-Yau Ma Tei and the concrete pier which forms part of this project was completed. At Tai Wan work started on the first stage of the seawall which will retain an area of reclamation required for a salt water pumping station. Work began on another section of seawall at Kowloon Bay. This will retain a further 50 acres of reclamation for use as a storage area and for light industrial development.

The Cha Kwo Ling seawall was substantially completed and filling behind it continued. The Colony's second refuse disposal incinerator and a composting plant were under construction at Lai Chi Kok and, by December, had reached a stage where operational trials could start. The incinerator is expected to burn 750 tons of refuse a day and the composting plant will produce 30 tons of compost every fifth day. As part of this project a pier is being built to accommodate the refuse collection service from ships.

In the New Territories at Shuen Wan work started on armouring a breakwater which had been formed using rock from the Plover Cove Scheme tunnels. At Tsuen Wan an intake chamber for the central pumping station was constructed in the seawall. A timber jetty was built at Nam Sang Wai for use by police launches and navigational beacons were erected at Yin Pai, Shek Kwu Chau, Pak Kok, Luk Keng and Kau Yi Chau.

A new hopper dredger of 800 cubic yards capacity was delivered by a local shipyard to the Public Works Department in March. It went to work deepening the western dangerous goods anchorage.