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11. It has been suggested by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government that there should be an annual competition. This should give a zest to the drills and tend towards smartness and efficiency.
12. An Assistant Engineer, with practical Fire Brigade experience, is expected from England this year.
This appointment should be of great advantage to the Brigade.
13. A new Fire Brigade Station is much to be desired. The present one is too small for the increased requirements, and its position in a busy thoroughfare, hampers the home drills and causes obstruction. A new and convenient site has been suggested, but will not be available for some time.
14. Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, Section 149, necessitates the provision of Fire Escape for all new houses (and for previously existing buildings in three years) for every storey more than forty feet from the ground.
The Honourable
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,
I have, &c.,
F. W. LYONS,
Acting Superintendent, Fire Brigade.
List of Places where Fire Brigade Despatch Boxes are kept.
1 Box. No. 1 Police Station.
3 Boxes. Engine House at No. 2 Police
Station.
1 Box. Naval Dock Yard.
1
Clock Tower.
19
1
Government Offices.
22
17
1
1
27
1
17
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Government House.
2 Boxes. No. 7 Police Station. 1 Box. Bonham Strand West, at West
End.
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1
1
19
17
No. 7, Queen's Garden, Royal 1
Engineers' Mess.
Central Police Station. Wellington Streetat Lyndhurst
Terrace.
Government Civil Hospital.
Staunton Street at Sing Wong
Street.
Water Lane at Queen's Road
Central.
Gas House, West Point.
Fat Hing Street, at Queen's
Road West.
Ko Shing Theatre.
Government Lunatic Asylum.
2 Boxes. Nam Pak Hong Fire Station, .1 Box.
Man Mo Temple.
2 Boxes. No. 5 Police Station. 1 Box. Kennedy Town Hospital. Collinson Street.
1
1
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No. 463, Queen's Road West.
List of Telephones to which the Police can have access to communicate with Central Station in the event of a Fire breaking out,
Hongkong and China Gas Company, East | Hongkong Hotel, Praya Central.
and West Point, from 7 A.M. to 9 P.M.
Tung Wá Hospital, Po Yan Street. Man On Insurance Office, Queen's Road,
West.
Clock Tower.
Royal Naval Yard, Queen's Road East. Mr. J. KENNEDY's, Causeway Bay. Electric Light Company, Queen's Road
East.
Fire Alarms.
Harbour Master's Office at Wing Lok Street. Hollywood Road at Queen's Road West. Wilmer Street at Des Voeux Road West.