GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AWARDED
December 1954 to February 1955
Particulars
Firms
Amount
December, 1954
Reconstruction of part of Wongneichong Road (Stage II from Entrance of Jockey Club to Village Road)
Construction of seawall and box culvert off Sung
Wong Toi Road. Ma Tau Kok, Kowloon. Diamond Hill Service Reservoir
Completion of Northern Seawall to Central Re- clamation and demolition of Old Queen's Pier Resettlement Store, Hong Kong
January, 1955
Excavation of Lai Chi Kok Service Reservoir Construction of a new bridge at Tsun Wan Construction of road off Boundary Street (Second
Section)
Reclamation at Kun Tong Bay-New Kowloon Construction of Shek Wu Hul Market Reconstruction of part of Connaught Road Cen-
tral and part of Connaught Road West. Quarters for area officers
Wah Hing & Co.
$
184.103.00
425.534.00
1,634.857.50
Fook Lee & Co. Wah Hin & Co.
Sang Lee & Co. (1945) Hang On Tai
128,665.00
24,800.00
Paul Y. Construction Co. Sang Lee & Co. (1945)
902.120.00
567,899.00
Cheong Lee Construction Co.
468,352.00
Ngai Foon
488,500.00
On Lee & Co.
90.954.69
Wing Lee Construction Co.
364,518.50
Hang On Tai for Homantin Resettlement
Area
38,000.00
Hang On Tai for Chuk Yuen Resettlement
Area
38.000.00
Hang On Tai for Tsun Wan Resettlement
Area
20.000.00
(Queen Elizabeth
School)
Sang Lee & Co. (1945)
Staff Quarters. Taipo Road Filters
Tung Shan & Co.
Lodge)
Tung Shan & Co.
1,320,895.20 57,494.28
100.00
February, 1955
Kowloon Secondary School
Demolition of No. 1 Conduit Road (Marble Hall
SAS ERECTS
OWN BUILDING
IN NEW YORK
A four storey air-conditioned building which will house the North American headquarters of Scandinavian Airlines System is under construction in Queens, in the eastern part of New York.
Designed by the architectural firm of Kahn and Jacobs, and oc- cupying the triangular site at the intersection of Queens Boulevard and Van Wyck Expressway, the new fireproof building will be a long rectangular structure fronted by a distinctive tower and bear-
Architects' perspective drawing of the new office building.
ing the prominent SAS insignia. Guardia and New York Interna- of the ticket offices located in Altogether it will contain 52,000 tional Airports, the new SAS, Inc. Rockefeller Center. The first and square feet. including a large headquarters will house the ex- second stories of the building with glass-enclosed lobby on the ground ecutive, administrative and re- separate entrances on Queens
level of the tower section.
servation offices of the airline now Boulevard will be available for
Situated halfway between La in Manhattan with the exception lease to other tenants.
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