May 1st
HONG KONG
KONG BUILDING INDUSTRY
INDUSTRY DIARY
Lady Black opened the new Maryknoll Sisters' School on upper Blue Pool Road. May 5th
MAY JUNE 1958
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A Government spokesman said that the Upset price was $240,000 and it realised Mr. Ho Wong, Chairman of the Hong- future of the land bounded by Causeway $302,000. kong and Kowloon Trade Union Council's Road and Tunglowan Road (at present Executive Committee, declared open the used by the military as a motor transport June 3rd
recreation ground) is now new six-storey Labour Building in Chang- depot and
Mr. J. P. Aserappa, Commissioner for under consideration.
that He also revealed Resettlement, said sha Street, Kowloon.
proposal to that the Town Planning Board is at modify the design of future resettlement proposals for the estate buildings to provide ground floor present considering redevelopment of Tai Hang Village.
school class-rooms was under consideration. Demolition of the old five-storey Alham- May 21st
June 3rd bra Theatre in Nathan Road is due to The new Po Hing Theatre will be com- The new $2,000,000 Pui Ying Middle commence. A modern 17-storey building pleted in September and will open in School on Babington Path is nearly com- is to replace it. Ground, first and second October. The building has 14 storeys in pleted. Built to accommodate 3,240 floors of the new structure will be used the front portion facing Nathan Road and students, the new school has over 100 for shops and the remaining floors five in the rear. The front portion will classrooms, a chapel, four laboratories, a apartments. Estimated cost: $10,000.000. be used for hotel and restaurant purposes, gymnasium,
The Education Department announced and the rear for the theatre. that sixteen new schools were completed May 22nd in urban and rural areas during the first quarter of this year, in addition to four school extensions. Building sites have been recommended for five new schools and eleven new applications for sites are under consideration.
May 9th
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Mr. Cheung Chan-hon, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, announced that the principal aim of the current Board is to raise $25,000,000 for the new Kwong Wah Hospital which is to serve Kowloon and
the New Territories.
Tenders have been called for the con- struction of a new 700,000 square foot aircraft parking apron at Kai Tak, an extension of the new runway at its land- ward end, and the building of associated drainage works and taxiways besides the provision of services for planes using the airport.
May 12th
The Director of Civil Aviation, Mr. M. J. Muspratt-Williams, laid the founda- tion stone of the new Kowloon City Dis- trict Kaifong Welfare Association primary school. Cost of construction and equip- ment is estimated at $430,000.
May 15th
and an auditorium large enough for 1,000 persons. There are three playgrounds including one on the roof. This is Hongkong's biggest school building construction with an interest-free loan of to date, and Government assisted the
$1,020,000.
The funeral service for Mr. H. M. Spence, the well-known architect, took place at St. John's Cathedral.
The late Mr. Spence came to China nearly 50 years ago to join H.M. Office of Works in June 6th Shanghai where he later formed his own firm in 1919. The firm moved to Hong- kong in 1947 and he followed himself in 1950.
May 24th
The new St. John
Ambulance Head- quarters for the Colony, at the junction of Garden and Macdonnell Roads, was opened this afternoon by H. E. the Governor, Sir Robert Black.
May 25th
The Kei Oi School at Li Cheng Uk Village, Kowloon, largest of many schools built and operated by the Christian Mis- sionary Society Day Schools' Council since the war, Was officially opened
by H. E. the Governor, Sir Robert Black. June 12th
Government announced its intention to construct a public pier and an approach causeway at Sok Kwu Wan (Lamma Island) to provide easy sea access between Hongkong and South Lamma. The rein- forced concrete pier will extend about 210 feet into the sea with a frontage of
French engineers are reported to have obtained satisfactory results in their studies over the past six months concern- ing geological aspects
of the Shek Pik 44 feet. (Lantao Island) proposed new reservoir June 13th site. Their final report and recommenda- A new tions are expected to be submitted about the end of June. May 27th
the
Government has received a report from
Consulting
Sir Engineers, William Halcrow and Partners, on the proposed removal of the Tsimshatsui Railway Terminal to
U.K.
H. E. the Governor, Sir Robert Black, Kowloon-Canton declared open the new Jubilee Science Hung Hom, an official spokesman said. Building of St. Stephen's Girls' College Details are not likely to be made known in Lyttelton Road.
until the report has been given detailed May 16th
study, he added. May 29th
21-classroom primary school, which will provide places for more than 1,600 pupils in two sessions, is to be built by Government in Canton Road, Tsimsha- tsui, next to the Lai Chack College. It Construction work is will be H-shaped. expected to begin about the middle of July and it is hoped the school will be ready for use next January. June 14th
Mr. Ho Tim, President of the Chinese Bankers' Recreational Club, opened the new club premises at 15-19, Queen's Road East, third floor, in the presence of many Commissioners, guests, including Trade
Tenders were called for completing the rest of the 3.518 ft. Tsun Wan Reclama- tion seawall which is to contain the fill nounced a Government project for
The Director of Public Works has an- Government officials, and the managers the and officials of over forty foreign and for an area providing housing and indus- reclamation of about 1,200 square yards Chinese banks.
The work will take about a of seabed on the western side of Peng
trial sites.
year.
May 17th
Six Chinese workmen were killed and eleven others reported injured, some seriously, when the roof of the old Alhambra cinema suddenly caved in
during demolition operations. May 19th
Chau Island, which will provide sites for a post office and fire station. June 2nd
The Hongkong Garage, Ltd. has bought a 6,000 sq.ft. lot of land in Tokwawan at a public auction of the Crown Lands and Surveys Office, and this will form the site of a multi-storey building for the Com- An exhibition of photographs, archi- pany's Kowloon branch. The land, at tects' plans and information about the the junction of Matauwei Road and Hongkong Housing Society's activities Kowloon City Road, is restricted for use since its inception ten years ago was as а mechanical transport service and opened to the public at the British petrol-filling station, and has a building Council Library.
covenant of $225,000 within 24 months.
The Colony's second multi-storey public carpark, on the east end of the Central Reclamation, will shortly be opened for parking. It is similar to the one now in operation next the Hongkong Star Ferry concourse both in design and size.
The Happy Valley and Canal Road West Kaifong Welfare Association is to build a six-storey school building for under-privileged school-children of that district. Government has granted a site at No. 14, Kin Kwong Street, Happy Valley, former site of the Tung Wah Hospital's No.
3 School. The cost is estimated at $200,000 or more.
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