A site investigation has been carried out for Public Buildings Department for a two storey Primary School at Hope Valley. It is proposed that the school be a concrete building with load bearing walls, seated upon piles with point loadings of 30 tons, 50 tons and 80 tons, respectively. A single storey shelter-block will be founded upon pier and beam footings. The investigation was requested in a letter to the Director of Mines on 28th August 1964. Two percussion drill holes totalling over 150 feet were drilled at the site, Hole 1 to 100 feet and Hole 2 to 50.5 feet. Open tube samples were taken throughout both holes with sealed tube samples at approximately 5 feet intervals in Hole 2. Standard Penetration Tests were made at approximately every 10 feet in Hole 2. The holes have been logged on a scale of 1 inch to 10 feet and the soil materials have been classified according to the Unified Soils Classification System. This report describes the results of the drilling and discusses the foundation characteristics of the soils encountered.