STORAGE:-Tons

Kowloon

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Appendix B

TABLE OF CODOWN ACCOMMODATION.

State as at March, 1946

Total Destroyed Existing

Location

Pre-war Tons

1941- 1945.

Tons

Remarks

Holts

Kowloon Wharves

28,000 NIL 28,000

73,000 1,500 71,500

Yaumati

Kowloon Wharves

12,000 NIL

12,000

Lai Chi Kok

Kowloon Wharves

10,000 10,000

NIL

Destroyed by fire in assault Dec. 1941.

West Point

Kowloon Wharves

6,000

NIL

6,000

China Provident

14,000

NIL

14,000

China Navigation

4,000

NIL

4,000

Various Chinese

24,000

NIL

24,000

Belchers Point

China Provident

25,000

25,000 NIL

Destroyed by fire in attack

on Belchers Fort.

Kennedy Town

China Provident

16,000

1,000 15,000

Kowloon Wharves

Various Chinese

2,000 NIL

20,000 12,000 8,000

2,000

Totals

234,000

49,500

184,500

Percentage of Pre-war Storage Space destroyed=21.1%.

NOTE:

Kowloon Wharves have 72,000 sq. feet of open Timber Storage at Yaumati—at present requisitioned-35% by C.O.P.-65% by R.A.F.

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