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shape, the space between it and Gough Hill Road forming a small enclosed yard. An enclosed verandah or corridor extends the full length of the class-rooms and quarters on the side towards Gough Hill Road.
All walls are of brickwork faced externally with facing bricks for a height varying from 1 foot above floor level up to window-sill level, above which they are finished with rough-cast, with bands, keystones, etc., of Canton tiles introduced. The roof of the main building is pitched and is covered with double pan and roll tiling; the small flat roofs over the servants' quarters, etc., being of cement concrete finished with "Ruberoid". The floors are of cement concrete, covered, in the case of the class-rooms and living-rooms, with hardwood boarding and in the case of the lavatories, bath-rooms, pantry and verandah with 4"x4" red tiles. The floors of the servants' quarters are finished in granolithic. Tiled dadoes are provided in the bath-rooms. All the windows of the quarters are fitted with jalousies, and electric light and electric bells are installed throughout the building.
All liabilities were discharged before the close of the year.
1915 Estimates, $22,000.00 | Total Estimates,
1915 Sup. Vote....... 8,800.00
$30,800.00 Expenditure to
31/12/15,
1915 Expenditure,... 29,650.14
...$36,000.00
38,474.82
101. Public Latrine,—D'Aguilar Street.-Particulars of this structure, which is fitted up as a trough-closet, were given in last year's Report (p. 51). The structure was completed and handed over to the Sanitary Department in March.
All liabilities were discharged before the close of the year.
1915 Estimates,
1915 Expenditure,
.$2,000.00 | Total Estimates,.
1,541.09
Expenditure to
31/12/15,
.$7,000.00
6,484.48
102. Government Villas at the Peak--Additions.
Government Civil Hospital-New Stores.
Government Schools—Additions to Victoria British School.
Public Bathhouse below Belilios Public School.
Rented Quarters for European Subordinates, Leighton Hill. It was decided to postpone the execution of the whole of these works and no expenditure was incurred on any of them.
103. Quarters for Subordinate Officers, Happy Valley.-A Contract for this work, which includes the erection of a terrace of six houses of somewhat similar design to those already erected on Mount Parish and at King's Park, Kowloon, was let to Messrs. Wing Lee & Co. on November 18th. An immediate start was made and, by the end of the year, the necessary matsheds, offices, etc., had been erected and a considerable amount of the excavation required in order to level the site had been executed. A quantity
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shape, the space between it and Gough Hill Road forming a small enclosed yard. An enclosed verandah or corridor extends the full length of the class-rooms and quarters on the side towards Gough Hill Road.
All walls are of brickwork faced externally with facing bricks for a height varying from 1 foot above floor level up to window-sill level, above which they are finished with rough-cast, with bands, keystones, etc., of Canton tiles introduced. The roof of the main building is pitched and is covered with double pan and roll tiling ; the small flat roofs over the servants' quarters, etc., being of cement concrete finished with "Ruberoid". The floors are of cement concrete, covered, in the case of the class-rooms and living-rooms, with hardwood boarding and in the case of the lavatories, bath- rooms, pantry and verandah with 4"x4" red tiles. The floors of the servants' quarters are finished in granolithic. Tiled dadoes are provided in the bath-rooms. All the windows of the quarters are fitted with jalousies, and electric light and electric bells are installed throughout the building.
All liabilities were discharged before the close of the year. 1915 Estimates, $22,000.00 | Total Estimates,
1915 Sup. Vote....... 8,800,00
$30,800.00 Expenditure to
31/12/15,
1915 Expenditure,... 29,650.14
...$36,000.00
38,474,82
101. Public Latrine,—D'Aguilar Street.-Particulars of this structure, which is fitted up as a trough-closet, were given in last year's Report (p. 51). The structure was completed and handed over to the Sanitary Department in March.
All liabilities were discharged before the close of the year.
1915 Estimates,
1915 Expenditure,
.$2,000.00 | Total Estimates,.
1,541.09
Expenditure to
31/12/15,
.$7,000.00
6,484.48
102. Government Villas at the Peak--Additions.
Government Civil Hospital-New Stores.
Government Schools—Additions to Victoria British School.
Public Bathhouse below Belilios Public School.
Rented Quarters for European Subordinates, Leighton Hill. It was decided to postpone the execution of the whole of these works and no expenditure was incurred on any of them.
103. Quarters for Subordinate Officers, Happy Valley.-A Contract for this work, which includes the erection of a terrace of six houses of somewhat similar design to those already erected on Mount Parish and at King's Park, Kowloon, was let to Messrs. Wing Lee & Co. on November 18th. An immediate start was made and, by the end of the year, the necessary matsheds, offices, etc., had been erected and a considerable amount of the excavation
required in order to level the site had been executed. A quantity
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