Breezy Point (18 flats),
Q 53
P.W.E. Hongkong.
Total cost.
Cost per house.
$128,466.81
$ 7,137
43,213.24
10,803
Mount Parish (4 two-storied houses),
With regard to the Mount Parish quarters, the site was a considerably more expensive one than that of the quarters at Breezy Point.
96. Wireless Telegraphy Station,—Cape D'Aguilar.—As mentioned in last year's Report, a Contract for the erection of the buildings was let on the 2nd December, 1914, and, on the last day of the year, the Marconi Company's representative arrived in the Colony to supervise the erection of the plant. By the 15th July, the buildings and masts had been erected and the whole of the apparatus had been installed and tested, the station being opened for the transmission of messages on the date mentioned. The quarters for the staff were not completed until August, the staff being temporarily accommodated in the quarters attached to the Cape D'Aguilar Signalling Station which is near at hand.
The Station comprises two separate buildings, one for the apparatus and the other for quarters for the necessary staff. The former is a one-storied building, containing a transmitting room, an engine room, an accumulator room, a land-line room, an operating room, and a store, each approximately 15' 0" x 12' 0", besides a small dressing-room and a lavatory, each 6′ 3′′ x 6' 0". It is surrounded by a verandah, 7' 0" wide. The latter is a partially two-storied building, containing, on the ground floor, a dormitory (30′ 0′′ × 19′ 7′′), and a mess-room (18′ 0′′ × 15′ 0′′), besides bathroom and lavatory accommodation for the subordinate staff and, on the upper floor, two rooms (15′ 3′′ x 15′ 0′′ and 15′ 0′′ × 14′ 0′′ respectively), and a bathroom for the senior staff. A small general store (10' 3" x 6' 6") is provided on the ground floor, whilst a small one-storied wing contains a kitchen and two servants' rooms, all of which are 10' 0" x 10' 0". A verandah, 9 feet wide, extends round three sides of the building on the ground floor and round two sides of the quarters on the upper floor. A reinforced concrete stair communicates with the upper floor.
The walls are of red brick built and pointed externally in cement mortar and the roofs are covered with double pan and roll tiling, except in the case of the verandahs where they are flat roofs of reinforced concrete.
In the case of the building containing the apparatus, all the floors, except those of the Land-line and Operating rooms, are laid with lime and cement concrete, 4" thick, finished with a layer of salt-glazed tiles (Green Island manufacture). The floors of the Land-line and Operating rooms are of hardwood laid on battens set in lime and cement concrete, 4" thick. The floor of the verandah is also of lime and cement concrete, finished with cement tiles.
The walls of the Accumulator room, Engine room, Transmitting room,