C
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For breakdown of Column B see Appendix 2, Table 4.
Notes:-
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
In addition to the above there are numerous miscellaneous stores required for reconstruction, such as roofing felt, paints, distemper, tar, oil, hardware, builder's ironmongery, large pipes, pipe fittings, electric fittings, bitumen, putty, nails and screws, nuts and bolts, tools, etc., etc.
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Column D' includes both commercial and naval piers and wharves.
Column F gives some indication of part of the weight to be imported.
This table does not include requirements for future day to day repairs due to damage by typhoons, accidents, and normal wear and tear; or repair and reconstruction of roads, culverts, water supply, etc.
Reconstruction of godowns being a long term policy, materials for this have not been included.
6.
(a) Residential (Civilian).
ACCOMMODATION,
From the Survey of Property Destroyed and Damaged (Page 5), it is calculated that the number of persons displaced is as follows:-
Chinese Non-Chinese
160,000 7,000
We have assumed that within the next twelve months the population will reach 1,500,000 Chinese and 10,000 non-
on-Chinese, excluding the Services. It is evident that the shortage of foreign type accommodation is proportionally much more acute than that of the Chinese type.
(b) Residential (Services).
In the case of the Services, out of a total pre-war accommodation of 7,700, the number displaced by war damage is:-
Royal Navy Military
Total:
400 or 30% 1,320 21%
22
1,720 23%
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The R.A.F., having few buildings, have had no displacement by damage.
2. The eventual strength of the Military forces is yet to be settled, but for some time to come the number of armed forces to be accommodated will be greater than before the war, as they are necessary for various essential duties connected with the rehabilitation of the Colony.
In addition, space has to be found for approximately 2,000 Japanese prisoners of war, who are usefully employed. Space has also to be found for Chinese Military personnel moving through the Port.
3. By reducing floor space per head and by the construction of temporary hutted camps, the pressure on civilian housing by requisitioning is being reduced to the minimum.
(c) Schools.
It is estimated that there are roughly 200,000 children in the Colony, of whom 59,980 are in school, divided as follows:-
Type of School
Government Grant-in-Aid
Subsidized
Private
Night (6 Private
Notes:-
1 Government)
Totals:
1937
1941
March 1946
4,363
4,329
3,989
7,700
9,448
8,904
21,186
23,511
13,926
51,697
78,972
30,647
2,805
2,514
84,946
119,065
59,980
These figures do not include Technical or Vocational Training.
1937 figures are included because it is estimated that the present population is about the same as in that year.