TRAMWAYS STAFF QUARTERS
STAFF FAMILY HOSTEL FOR HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LTD.
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Large employers of labour in the during March to receive the necessary to our fleet. This cannot be done Colony are becoming
com- until we have more storage space increasingly equipment from England to conscious of the obligation to their mence cinema shows of an educa- available for tramcars. We are, there- workers. Many companies have done tional and cultural nature. From this fore, proceeding with the first stage much to make the lot of their em- centre also the various sporting of rebuilding Russell Street Depot. ployees a happier one by providing activities of employees are assisted Our latest plans call for leaving the welfare and recreational facilities, and encouraged, such as football, bulk of our ground at Russell Street quarters and so on.
uncovered, and for dismantling and removing our present King's Road Hongkong Tramways Limited is an
"It will be remembered that last Depot to Russell Street where it will outstanding example of a local com- year we indicated that we were in-
serve as the main workshop. The pany which has continually strived to vestigating the possibility of building only new building therefore required increase the benefits it offers its living quarters for our Chinese Staff will be the office block which will workers. During his statement to on our land at King's Road. A pilot then face Sharp Street. The advan- scheme involving 40 flats is now tage of the new scheme is that it the Company at the Ordinary Yearly under construction there, and it is will be several millions of dollars General Meeting held on 27th March hoped that these flats will be ready cheaper than that originally planned, 1952, the Chairman said: "In Novem- for occupation in April 1952. This and by utilising existing buildings ber (1951), the Company's new building forms the first step in the wherever possible will reduce Welfare Centre was completed, and scheme which envisages utilising the danger of being held up by the short- now provides suitable premises for whole of our ground at King's Road age of steel. Work on the first section the many welfare facilities provided for flats for our employees.
of the scheme will commence pro- tree by the Company. From this
bably in April 1952." building is now administered the free "During 1951 the question of re- Medical Clinic for employees, their building our Depot at Russell Street
The site of the Tramway Company's wives and children, the sale of rice was held in abeyance and no work land at North Point is bounded by at controlled prices and English lan- was carried out. However, during King's Road on the north. Tsat Tse guage classes for apprentices, impro- that time it became clear that traffic Mui Road on the south, Tin Chiu vers and others. Cheap and whole- was again increasing and that any Street on the west and by the Public some meals at fixed prices are also further improvement in our services Works Department Quarries on the available in this building. It is hoped would be dependent upon additions east. It is approximately 420 feet by
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The pilot scheme proved so success- ful that the company immediately made plans to extend it, and recently a further block of 60 flats was added to the original building, adjoining it along the King's Road frontage.
The new block is, like the pilot block, five storeys high and the layout of the individual flats is similar. Access to the flats is at present from Tin Chiu Street. The upper storeys are reached by open staircases which lead to open corridors facing the centre of the site. These corridors have been planned to be of such a width that, although they allow con- venient circulation, they are not so wide that they will be used by the tenants for storage or other purposes.
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