"B" CLASS
17:0"
LIVING & BED
Plans and elevations of the two types of housing units.
LIVING & BED
KIT
KIT
"C" CLASS
KIT
KIT
LIVING & BED
13 5"-
LIVING & BED
a
a small kitchenette: however, unique feature will be a movable cabinet of drawers and shelves which, supplemented by a curtain or screen, can serve to partition off a bedroom from the main room.
title, the remainder of the cost to be nursery for Church World Service. written off as a free subsidy.
Church World Service believes that Simultaneously with the planning these two projects will prove of long of the resettlement cottages, the range worth to the Colony and is Committee approved a project for a happy in making this contribution to day nursery to accommodate nearly welfare. It would like to acknow- For occupancy of the houses the a hundred nursery age children; here ledge its debt of gratitude to co- Committee plans to select families poorly nourished little tots can have operative departments of Government from among fire victims-families daytime care and training under a and to all others who are helping to with seeming ability to meet very competent staff and can be given a facilitate their work. moderate assessments for housing. nourishing lunch. Parents thus re- Under the plan the monthly pay- lieved of hours of care of the children ments will be collected over a period can seek remunerative employment. of about 40 months, amounting to a The site of this nursery has been total of 40% or somewhat more of approved alongside the housing site the original cost. If tenants have and building plans are being drawn then been faithful to contract stipu- up. Plans are well under way for the lations and to all
Kong Y. W. C. A., with ex- governmental Hong regulations they are to be given full perienced staff, to take charge of this
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General Contractors and Manufac- turers of VI - CON BLOCKS: Hong Kong Building Service Ltd.
Steel Windows: H.K. Metal Window
Mfg. Co.
Cement Asbestos Sheets (British):
Arzedel Ltd.
From George III to Elizabeth II-Sissons Brothers 150th Jubilee
Manufacturers. Coronation year had a special significance in so far that it marked the opening of their new modern Factory and also the celebra- tion of their 150th. Anniversary as an Independent Family-controlled con-
cern.
For Sissons Brothers & Company latest revolutionary developments of Another milestone in the Firm's Ltd., the well-known Hull Paint the Industry in the form of Plastic history was the honour bestowed Emulsions and Synthetic coatings. upon the Company by a visit of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales Starting from this early enterprise, to the Factory in 1926. Sissons Brothers' goods have become famcus not only through the length Throughout all this period the firm and breadth of the Homeland-where has undergone constant expansion in distribution is
all fields of Paint manufacture, being carried out from a chain of 17 depots but also through- perhaps best known for its specialisa- At the commencement of the nine- out the civilised world, until today, tion in the Water Emulsion field-a teenth Century, Thomas Sissons, a in spite of tariff and currency dif- form of technique which bids fair to member of an old East Riding family ficulties and restrictions, the Com- becoming all important in the future having connections with the City of pany is exporting almost half of its of the Industry due to the rapid ad- Hull since the days of William Penn, total production to no less than 40 vance in plastic science. commenced business in the Old Town different Overseas markets. Perhaps Members of the Sissons' family have as a partner in the firm of Sissons, the most single individual success by been on the Board of the Company Weddell & Company. In 1803 he which the Company became known continuously since its foundation in withdrew this association to form with was the introduction of HALL'S DIS- 1803, and two of the present Direc- his brother, Richard Jennison Sissons. TEMPER, one of the first Washable tors represent the fifth generation of the business of Sissons Brothers & Water Paints and the subject of an the family to be actively employed Company. Over the years, the con- original patent by Mr. Allan T. Hall, in the running of the business. cern was gradually transformed from a relative of the Sissons' family who firm of Sissons Brothers remains an an old Whaling Yard on the banks of interested himself in the technical entirely independent concern with its the River Hull into a busy factory, side of the business at the end of the financial control still in the hands the area increasing on the same site last century. The late Mr. Harold of the Founder's family, and is a from half-an-acre to the 19 acres Sissons is still remembered as a co- sterling example of private enterprise
in a day which it covers today. The same cen- founder and
of industrial change and first President of the
shifting values. tury and a half has seen the evolu- National Federation of Associated tion of products handled, commenc- Paint, Colour and Varnish Manufac- ing with whale oll, right through the turers formed in 1912, and which for whole range of Paints, Varnishes, many years was the only Trade Asso- Enamels and Water Paints to the ciation in existence in the Industry.
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The
The local agents for Sissons' Paints and Hall's Distemper are Messrs. Gor- don, Woodroffe & Co. (Far East). Ltd.