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A new ferro-concrete pier is in course of constuction at this point on the water front. Government House occupies a commanding situation, in picturesque grounds pleas- ingly laid out, a little above the European business centre. Victoria Gaol is a large and ill-designed structure, with its main entrance from Arbuthnot Road. A branch prison was opened at Lai-chi-kok, Kowloon, in 1920. The Police Barracks and new Central Station adjoin Victoria Gaol, as does the Magistracy, the reconstruction of which was practically completed at the close of 1914. The strength of the Police Force for 1922 was 1,381, of whom 188 were Europeans, 431 Indians, and 762 Chinese (including Water Police). The establishment for 1923 consists of 221 Europeans, 450 Indians, 681 Chinese, and 238 Water Police (composed of Chinese). The Fire Brigade in 1922 con- sisted of 12 Europeans, 4 Indians and 143 Chinese. A Reformatory was built and opened in 1900 at Causeway Bay, the cost of erection being borne by the late Mr. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G.; but the building has not been used for the purpose, the idea having proved im- practicable. The Eyre Diocesan Refuge, an institution founded for rescue work among the Chinese, is now housed in this building. The Lunatic Asylum consists of two smalt buildings, one for Europeans and the other for Chinese, below Bonham Road in the western part of the town. Adjacent is the Government Civil Hospital, a large and well-designed building affording extensive accommodation. The Alice Memorial Hospital, situated at the corner of Hollywood Road and Aberdeen Street, is a useful and philanthropic institu- tion; athliated with it is the Nethersole Hospital on Bonham Road. A little to the west is a hospital designated the Ho Miu Ling Hospital, the gift of Madame Wu Ting Fang to the Medical Mission of the London Missionary Society. The Royal Naval Hospital occupies a small eminence near Bowrington, and the Military Hospital, a fine range of buildings, completed in 1907, occupies a commanding site above Bowen Road. The Hongkong University, a large and handsome building erected in a commanding position at the west end of the city, was opened in 1912. Queen's College, a commodious structure, which stands on a site having its chief frontage on Staunton Street, is the home of the chief Government educational institution in the Colony. It was opened in 1889. The Belilios Public School for Girls, in Gough Street, is the chief centre of female education. Extensive new buildings for St. Stephen's Girls' College, however, are to be erected on a site between Park Road and Lyttleton Road at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars. The foundation stone was laid by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales during his visit to the Colony in April, 1922.
The Tung Wa Hospital, a Chinese institution, which has been of great utility in the Colony, was considerably enlarged in 1903, and new plague wards were added in 1909. A new wing, to provide accommodation for 120 patients, was completed in 1921. A well- designed Plague Hospital for Chinese, situated at Kennedy Town, was also built at the expense of the Chinese community. The Barracks for the garrison are exten- sive, and the buildings belonging to the Naval Establishment are spacious if not substantial. The chief cantonments lie on both sides of the Queen's Road, between the Cricket Ground and Arsenal Street, Wanchai. Representations have been made to the Imperial authorities to relinquish this area in order that it may be available for the constantly growing needs of the commercial community. There are also extensive Barracks at Kowloon, in which the Indian regiments are quartered; and a magnificent sanatorium (formerly the Mount Austin Hotel) at the Peak for the European troops. A smaller one is situated near Magazine Gap. Head-quarter House, the residence of the General in Command of the Troops, occupies a pleasant elevation overlooking the cantonments in Victoria. A commodious Central Market, situated between Queen's Road Central and Des Voeux Road, was opened in 1895, and in 1906 another fine market was opened further west, and is known as the Western Market. building of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is large, handsome and massive, and would do credit to any large city. It occupies a fine site next to the City Hall, and has frontages on Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road. The exterior walls and elegant fluted pillars are of dressed granite, and the offices on the Queen's Road frontage are crowned with a large dome. Opposite the Des Voeux Road entrance to the Bank stands a bronze statue of the late Sir Thomas Jackson, Bart., who from 1876 to 1902 was chief manager of the institution. The statue was unveiled by Governor Sir Matthew Nathan on February 24th, 1906. An extensive reclamation along the city water frontage from West Point to Murray Road, initiated by Sir C. P Chater, C.M.G., was completed in 1903, the total area reclaimed from the sea being ap- proximately 65 acres. Of this area 3373 acres constitute building land, the remainder being occupied by roads and open spaces. The total cost, including reconstruction of Government piers, was $3,362,325. The various sections as they were ready were rapidly built upon and some of the finest buildings in the Colony have been erected on the
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