10th July
Lots Nos. 2563B, 2460, 2464, 2490B, and part of lots Nos, 2458, 2497, 2490C, 2459 and 2506A in D.D. 51, Fanling, were de-requisitioned and returned to the owners. They were requisitioned for the Military Authorities in August, 1949.
1st July
Government has decided to proceed with the first stage of an important reclamation scheme between Murray Road and Queen's Building in the Central district and intends reserving a site on the reclaimed area for a City Hall, it was officially announced.
Owing to the large backlog of cases, it has been decided to re-open a Tenancy Tribunal in Kowloon to hear Kowloon cases, and the three Magistrates in Kowloon have been appointed to sit alone as a Tenancy Tribunal.
6th July
H.E. the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, has been pleased to appoint Mrs. M. Allinson and Mrs. G. E. Yeoh to be members of the Housing Committee.
8th July
Letters are beginning to appear in the correspondence columns of the local newspapers with suggestions and criticism in connection with the New City Hall for which Government has set aside a portion of the new reclamation between the Star Ferry Wharf and the Naval Dockyard.
10th July
In a memorandum on the economic and social require- ments of the Colony, the Reform Club of Hongkong to-day called on the Hongkong Government, "as a matter of the greatest urgency, to apply through the proper channels, for an international loan of up to £25 millions to finance commer- cial and industrial development of Hongkong and a free American grant of £9,592,000 for improvement of the Colony's social services." A copy of the memorandum has been sent to Government. Regarding the grant for social services, the Reform Club considers the erection of two large General Hospitals, one with 1,000 beds to serve Kowloon and another of 800 beds attached to the University of Hongkong as a University Hospital, a necessary first step towards solving the pressing problem of hospital accommodation.
The issues of sand for the quarter ended June 30 were 30 per cent. lower than they were in the corresponding period last year when the Colony's building programme was at its peak, states the report of the Government Stores Department issued to-day.
12th July
No likelihood is seen of the pavilion of the Hongkong Cricket Club being required by Government within the next five years, said the Acting Colonial Secretary (the Hon. R. R. Todd) when he laid the Report of the Advisory Committee on Recreation Grounds, 1949-50, before the Legislative Council to-day.
14th July
Put up for sale by order of the mortgagee, the building known as 63, 65 & 67, Tong Mi Road, Kowloon, was acquired by Miss Leung Sok-ying, of 25, Seymour Road, for $30,500 at De Sousa's Auction Rooms to-day.
15th July
The third progressive step in the U Tat Chee Non-Profit Housing Scheme took place to-day when 114 of the participants in the scheme drew numbers to register their turn for selecting individual sites. The drawing took place at the Assembly Hall of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and was presided over by Mr. U Tat Chee, original promoter of the plan.
16th July
The foundation stone of the Diocesan Preparatory School and Christ Church Hall, which will be for the use of poorer class children, was laid by the Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall, Bishop of Hongkong, at Kowloon Tong. The schools are expected to be completed by September.
19th July
A letter to the editor of the South China Morning Post refers to Sir Hilton Poynton's visit to the Colony and asks whether he would have time to look into the disgraceful delay in settling payments for properties requisitioned by the Military Authorities over a year ago.
21st July
The editorial in to-day's South China Morning Post is devoted to a discussion of the Hongkong Reform Club's loan. development plan.
A suggestion that design of the proposed City Hall be the subject of a competition open to all architects in the Colony was made when representatives of over forty organi- sations in Hongkong who have formed themselves into a City Hall Committee, sponsored by the Sino-British Club, held their inaugural meeting.
23rd July
The work of assessing compensation rentals for properties requisitioned for the Services is now almost complete, says the quarterly progress report of the Rating & Valuation Depart- ment issued yesterday.
The scheme to settle 25,000 to 30,000 refugees and unemployed on Lantao Island, sponsored by various Chinese public organisation two months ago, has been definitely abandoned, the "Sunday Herald" has reliably learned.
24th July
A legal issue said to be the first of its kind in Hongkong as to whether the annual rent paid by a tenant to the land- lord was the total monies the tenant paid during a year or should be assessed by the deductions of rates for the premises was settled in the Supreme Court when Mr. Justice Scholes gave judgment in a tenancy case.
28th July
Hongkong's Young Women's Christian Association may soon have a new ultra-modern three-storeyed building. Initial blueprints of the building, which is to be situated at the corner of Garden and Macdonnell Roads, have already been drawn up. This welcome news for Y.W.C.A. members is contained in an album issued by the Association to mark its 30th anniversary. Site for the building has been given by the Hongkong Government.
30th July
The names of Chan Kwok-koon and H.M. Spence have been added to the list of Authorised Architects in the Colony.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AWARDED
13th May, 1950
Waterworks Depot, Kowloon
General Cemetery Office and Quarters
Turfing and blacksoil
Erection of Queen's College
Lease of V.P.P. No. 3
+
Maintenance of Port Works, nine months
Purchase and demolition of two disused food godowns Erection of Asiatic Police Quarters, Hongkong
Rice godowns
Supply and laying of felt membrane roofing at Government
flats
14th July
Lam Woo & Co.
Ngai Foon
Shing Loong
Lai Kee Co.
Sai Kong Wharf & Shipping Co.
Wa Hing Construction Co.
M. W. Lo
Lam Woo & Co.
++
HL
Hsing Chong & Co.
Reiss, Bradley & Co., Ltd.
$ 256,443.80
121,484.20
55,300.00 1,129,174.53
181,800.00
400,000.00
2,500.00
2,986,021.47
729,578.29
44,411.08
Reconstruction of Streets in Hong Kong
Reconstruction of Streets in Kowloon
Reconstruction of Nathan Road
Maintenance of Way & Structures
Erection of Marine Licensing Station at Aberdeen, H.K.
"Tender A"
Ching Hing Const. Co. ...
Ching Hing Const. Co.
Union Construction Co. Ngai Foon...
E
119,972.00
---
144,161.00
181,370.00
30,000.00
Lun Sang & Co.
82,437.00
Erection of Marine Licensing Station at Yaumati, Kowloon
"Tender B"
+
Lun Sang & Co.
---
79,980.00
Site formation for Hon. C. S. Residence
Wan Hin & Co.
55,382.50
Supply of Asphaltum
Pump House
Construction of Approach Road to Hon. C. S. Residence Bins, Racks & Repairs to Permanent Way Store Buildings Rooling of Tonnochy Road Pier
Texas Co. (China) Ltd. Ngai Foon
+++
250,252.80
4.145.80
Union Construction Co.
33,893.80
Hay Ley & Co. Tak Hing Co.
23,124.00
39,214.00
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