to a new
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ART IV FIRENCE.
1. In this section of its report, th to mitte has made
in attempt to estimate the coats of eutebliching and maintaining a lintverdoy in Hong Kong of the scope and stond-rds described in lerts II and III. Two general comments must be made on these finnciel estintos. Firstly, the figures are highly speculative, because there is no reliable information on which to base catimatro of such major iteras ap building coats at prosent or duxin; the next degudn. Secondly, the whol of the capital and who li ate of the recurrit oxpenditure will not be required at the start. The totals refer to the amounts involved in the completed scene of buildings, starf und departmental maintenance; the all ing papanse will pocessarily be spread over a period
t will not be possible to recruit all the staff needed for some quaro, he committee considered that it would be unclean bo atbergh to make a time-table for the expenditure, Gingefa wald der nd on indeterminaten
ag building potential 40
2. Lite.
availability of leaching staff.
Universit Committee of 1959 recommended the : moval of the University to site outside the very crowded municipal limits of Hon, Rong. The pr.dent site of remarkable natural beauty, ɔn a hill sloping sharply to the harbour had housue for long kong what the llego gardens are for Cambridge and Oxford, but it was never planned va a whole «nd hynce ♣jas been used very uneconomically. consideration that auguran the transfer of the University sus taccamended wit that die Hivial #32 was impeding the
#iwas netural growth of the city or ctoria. K 90 mättre in 1940 reconsidered the whole matter with great care and produced plans ond drawings to show that properly sed the site could easily accokmodate a Univercity twice as large as Hong Kong University then was. rovision to met municipal cleins was made by ■ mopoeul to su vynder part of the site for town extension and for road construction compensation was to be found by extensions on to unoccupied overnment land north west of the University, and by the sequisition ɗfacmall site in the New Territories for a Burvey cump. Il showed that by bevalling and filling, the existing inadequate opace for grans could 'e geratly increased. in the basis of th information at its disposal, the Co mittee favoured the ace ptanec of the prop gala of this committee and 88 assumed in the following estimates that the University will be developed on the present site.
3. mester tion of casting building.
ati mban of the chat of repaira imu.édiutely necessary to the existing Buildings can be little more than guesses based on the cost of typhoon-damage repaire before the war. here was no infomation available to the Committee on the current costs of bull End in Long Long, on the prices of building materials which, with the exception of brigk, and cement will have to be imported. 16 to witte arrested th
she following mula bi a
*
nebl estimate fof the cost of repairs:- Auto, Administrati ɔn and Student'a Union
gionce
ledical
ngine ving
Library Pildings
loat Le and
taff HouBe
15, 0
5,000
8,000
5,600
3,60
10,000
46,600
14.