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16. Works executed on private account:- A number of small jobs were carried out by this office under this head.
17. Security Measures:- Security measures were carried out at a number of buildings.
Public Works Extraordinary.
18. Taipo Market:- This item was referred to in paragraph 17 of last year's Annual Report. The expenditure consisted of payment of contract retention money.
19. Extension to King George V School: This work was referred to in paragraph 18 of last year's Annual Report. The only expenditure incurred was the release of the contract retention money.
20. Workers Schools:- (a) Hong Kong and Whampoa Docks Memorial School-Hung Hom. Plans were prepared and a contract let on 6th July, 1949 and work completed by 11th November. Accommodation was provided for five hundred pupils in 12 classrooms and a practical room, staff rooms, caretakers' quarters, changing rooms with showers and an assembly hall-cum-gymnasium. Separate playgrounds exist for boys and girls. The construction is semi-permanent and consisted of brick piers, panel walls of hollow concrete blocks and timber roof. (b) Hennessy Road School. Plans were prepared, a contract let on 14th June, 1950 and work completed on 1st September. Accommodation was provided for 500 pupils in 12 classrooms, a practical room and staff rooms. Construction was of the semi-permanent type as described for (a). An addition was made later to include the existing Salvation Army Building which was converted into an assembly hall.
21. Fire Station, Kowloon:- Sketch plans, report and estimate were prepared during the year for a station at the junction of Argyle Street and Waterloo Road but further progress was deferred pending the finding of a more easily developed site. The accommodation was to consist of offices and space for ten appliances together with firemen's quarters and six flats for officers.
22. Hong Kong Defence Force Headquarters:- This item was referred to in paragraph 19 of last year's Annual Report. Nothing further was done on this project. Temporary wooden structures comprising two drill halls, changing and shower rooms and store were erected on Murray Parade Ground and completed on 14th December, 1949.
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16. Works executed on private account:- A number of small jobs were carried out by this office under this head.
17. Security Measures:- Security measures were carried out at a number of buildings.
Public Works Extraordinary.
18. Taipo Market:- This item was referred to in paragraph 17 of last year's Annual Report. The expenditure consisted of payment of contract retention money.
19. Extension to King George V School: This work was referred to in paragraph 18 of last year's Annual Report. The only expenditure incurred was the release of the contract retention money.
20. Workers Schools:- (a) Hong Kong and Whampoa Docks Memorial School-Hung Hom. Plans were prepared and a contract let on 6th July, 1949 and work completed by 11th November. Accommodation was provided for five hundred pupils in 12 classrooms and a practical room, staff rooms, caretakers' quarters, changing rooms with showers and an assembly hall-cum-gymnasium. Separate playgrounds exist for boys and girls. The construction is semi-permanent and consisted of brick piers, panel walls of hollow concrete blocks and timber roof. (b) Hennessy Road School. Plans were prepared, a contract let on 14th June, 1950 and work completed on 1st September. Accommodation was provided for 500 pupils in 12 classrooms, a practical room and staff rooms. Construction was of the semi-permanent type as described for (a). An addition was made later to include the existing Salvation Army Building which was converted into an assembly hall.
21. Fire Station, Kowloon:- Sketch plans, report and estimate were prepared during the year for a station at the junction of Argyle Street and Waterloo Road but further progress was deferred pending the finding of a more easily developed site. The accommodation was to consist of offices and space for ten appliances together with firemen's quarters and six flats for officers.
22. Hong Kong Defence Force Headquarters:- This item was referred to in paragraph 19 of last year's Annual Report. Nothing further was done on this project. Temporary wooden structures comprising two drill halls, changing and shower rooms and store were erected on Murray Parade Ground and completed on 14th December, 1949.