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15. The building provides a concert hall of 1,350 seats which is to be adaptable for the performance of Chinese Opera and a theatre seating 480. These two units are planned around the central block which contains the main entrance foyer, dance hall and banqueting hall. The multi-storey block houses the marriage registry, lecture rooms, committee and exhibition rooms, art gallery, museum and four floors devoted to library services. A feature of the scheme is the elevated promenade which encloses a court-yard which is to be planned as a garden. Work was commenced on the preliminary working drawings and investigation of site problems.
Chater Hall Flats.
Residential Buildings
16. This building which consists of fifty-nine flats and garages in an eleven-storey block was completed in October.
Leighton Hill Flats.
17. This building which consists of forty flats and garages in a ten-storey block was completed in September.
Argyle Street Flats.
18. On completion of the ninety-nine flats at Chater Hall and Leighton Hill, instructions were received to prepare a scheme for forty flats of a similar type in Kowloon on a site at the junction of Argyle Street and Waterloo Road. All the flats are the four-room type with living-dining room, three bedrooms, drying room, bathroom, toilet, kitchen, servants' quarters and drying yard. The working drawings were completed by the end of March.
Civil Aviation Department
Additional Extensions to Kai Tak Terminal Building.
19. These extensions which consist of increasing the size of the passengers' waiting rooms and lavatories and providing a covered verandah overlooking the Harbour were completed in January.
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