AnnualReport-1914 — Page 470

P.W. E. Kowloon,

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123. Quarters for Subordinate Officers adjoining King's Park. -As mentioned in last year's Report, a Contract for the erection of these quarters was let to Messrs. Sang Lee & Co. in September 1913 and was completed by the end of August 1914, the houses being occupied during the following month.

The buildings consist of a row of 8 two-storied houses with detached servants' quarters. Each house has a small plot of ground in front and a small yard in the rear from which access to a scavenging lane, 8 feet wide, is provided.

The two end houses contain a living room 20′ 6′′ x 16′ 19′′, a kitchen 14' 0" x 12′ 0′′, three bedrooms 16′ 0′′ × 12′ 0′′, 16′ 0′′ 13′ 0′′ and 14' 0" x 12′ 0′′ respectively, two bathrooms and a pantry and store-room. Each of the six intermediate houses contains a living room 18′ 0′′ × 15′ 6′′ a kitchen 10′ 6′′ 8′ 6′′, two bed- rooms 20′ 0′′ × 18′ 0′′ and 14′ 5′′ × 10′ 6′′ respectively, a bathroom, a pantry and a store-room. Each house is provided with a verandah in front on both floors. The servants' quarters for each honse contain a boy's room, an amah's room, cookhouse, latrine and coal house.

The walls are of rubble masonry up to ground floor level and of Canton red brick in lime mortar above that level, rough-cast externally and plastered internally. The floors of rooms are of hardwood laid on hardwood joists and those of verandahs, kitchens, bathrooms, etc., are of reinforced concrete, surfaced, in the case of the ground floor verandahs, with 4" x 4" red tiles. The roof of the main building is of pan and roll tiling and those of the veran- dahs and servants' quarters are of reinforced concrete. Electric light has been installed in all the quarters.

A balance of $7,916.54 remained to be paid in 1915.

1914 Estimates,

1914 Sup. Vote,

$45,000.00 Total Estimates

15,200.00

$60,200.00 | Expenditure to

31/12/14,

1914 Expenditure,.. 69,146.60

$74.000.00

68,430.48

124. Hunghom Police Station,--Additions.-This work was commenced in December 1913 and completed in November 1914. It was carried out by Messrs. Hing Lee & Co. under the annual contract held by them for the maintenance and minor extensions of Government Buildings, being measured and paid for in accordance with their contract which was based upon the Government Schedule of Prices.

In the case of the main building, the works comprised the addition of two bedrooms, 20′ 0′′ × 17′ 6′′ and 18′ 9′′ x 12′ 0′′ respectively; the conversion of the two old cells into a third bedroom, 16′ 6′′ x 12′ 0′′; the substitution of two new cells, each 12′ 0′′ × 6′ 6′′, by partitioning off portions of the old Inspector's room and Charge room; the conversion of the remaining portions of