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uilding was opened by Lady Stubbs in January, 1924. The Tung Wa Hospital, Chinese institution, which has been of great utility in the Colony, was donsiderably enlarged in 1903, and new plague wards were added in 1909. A new ring, to provide accommodation for 120 patients, was completed in 1921. A well- designed Plague Hospital for Chinese, situated at Kennedy Town, was also built the expense of the Chinese community. The Barracks for the garrison are exten- ive, and the buildings belonging to the Naval Establishment are spacious if not dubstantial. The chief cantonments lie on both sides of the Queen's Road, between ahe 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. Terms for the surrender f the property have been offered to and accepted by the local Government. There are also extensive Barracks at Kowloon, in which the Indian regiments are quartered; bind a magnificent sanatorium (formerly the Mount Austin Hotel) at the Peak for the European troops. Head-quarter House, the residence of the General in Command if the Troops, occupies a pleasant elevation overlooking the cantonments in Victoria. commodious Central Market, situated between Queen's Road Central and Des Vœux toad, was opened in 1895, and in 1906 another fine market was opened further west, nd is known as the Western Market. The building of the Hongkong and Shanghai tank is large, handsome and massive, and would do credit to any large city.
ccupies 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, ind the offices on the Queen's Road frontage are crowned with a large dome. Opposite he Des Voeux Road entrance to the Bank stands a bronze statue of the late Sir Thomas ackson, Bart., who from 1876 to 1902 was chief manager of the institution. The tatue was unveiled by Governor Sir Matthew Nathan on February 24th, 1906. At he opposite end of the Bank garden, facing the Praya, a memorial has been erected o the 42 members of the Bank's staff who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great Var. It takes the form of a female figure of "Fame," in bronze, 8 feet high, holding n her hand a wreath, while in front is a smaller statue of a soldier with kit and ifle. The Memorial was unveiled by H.E. the Governor (Sir R. E. Stubbs) on May 4th, 1923. An extensive reclamation along the city water frontage from West Point o Murray Road, initiated by Sir C. P. Chater, C.M.G., was completed in 1903, the total rea reclaimed from the sea being approximately 65 acres. Of this area 33'73 acres onstitute building land, the remainder being occupied by roads and open spaces. The otal cost, including reconstruction of Government piers, was $3,362,325. The various ections as they were ready were rapidly built upon and some of the finest buildings the Colony have been erected on the reclaimed land. On the eastern section a Handsome building for the Hongkong Club was finished in 1897, and was occupied In July of that year. Another extensive reclamation extending from Arsenal Street o East Point-a distance of about a mile-and involving, incidentally, the partial emolition of Morrison Hill, is in progress and, when completed will add another 90 cres to the land available for commercial purposes in the locality. The Pier at the oot of Pedder Street was opened on the 29th December, 1900, and named Blake Pier in onour of Governor Sir Henry Blake. A hundred yards to the East is Queen's Pier, handsome structure now used on all official occasions. Further west is the Harbour laster's Office, a commodious building completed in 1906.
The chief religious buildings are:-St. John's Cathedral (Anglican), which was erected n the year 1842, occupies a commanding site above the Parade Ground, and is a Gothic hurch of considerable size but with few pretensions to architecture. It has a square ower, with pinnacles, over the western porch, and possesses a peal of bells. A new hancel was built in 1869-70, the foundation stone of which was laid by the late Duke Edinburgh on the 16th November, 1869. A handsome stained glass window in the east nd, over the altar, to the memory of the late Mr. Douglas Lapraik, another n the north transept erected in 1892 to the memory of the late Dr. F. Stewart, ormerly Colonial Secretary, one in the south transept to the memory of those ho perished in the wreck of the P. & O. str. Bokhara, another to the memory of the Hospital Sisters who died in 1898 while in execution of their duty during an utbreak of plague, and the stained clerestory windows of the chancel, presented by ady Jackson in 1900, and one to the memory of Bishop Hoare, who lost his life in the yphoon of 1906, are the chief adornments of the interior. The choir stalls, pulpit nd Bishop's throne are fine samples of Chinese carving in teakwood. It also Possesses a fine three-manual organ. A Church Hall adjacent to the Cathedral was