P.W.E. Hongkong.
—Q 32
The building is Classic in style, the whole of the front and the main architectural features of the back and end elevations being carried out in cement plaster. Any exposed brickwork in the exterior elevations is of red Formosa facing bricks.
The principal entrance is from Hollywood Road, which is about 25 feet below the level of the compound of the Central Police Station. A granite staircase gives access to the various floors. The main floor is at the level of the Station Compound from which an entrance to the offices and main staircase is provided. Large verandahs extend along the main fronts towards Hollywood Road and the Station Compound on the main and upper floors.
1919 Estimates.......$165,000.00 Total Estimates, Expenditure to 31/12/19, $281,000.00
1919 Expenditure,... 107,413.33 227,633.10
1919 Estimates $165,000.00 Total Estimates $281,000.00 1919 Expenditure 107,413.33 Expenditure to 31/12/19 227,633.1087. Imports and Exports Office,---Connaught Road Block. Owing to the precautions necessary for the safeguarding of adjoining buildings, pile-driving operations, which were in progress at the beginning of the year, were necessarily slow. The piling was, however, completed early in March and, by the end of the year, the erection of the building was nearing completion.
1919 Estimates, $50,000.00 Total Estimates, Expenditure to 31/12/19, $345,000.00
1919 Expenditure, 41,425.46 50,654.95
1919 Estimates $50,000.00 Total Estimates $345,000.00 1919 Expenditure 41,425.46 Expenditure to 31/12/19 50,654.9588. Quarters for European Officers, Leighton Hill.-As stated in paragraph 91 of last year's Report, this work was entrusted to Messrs. Dennison, Ram & Gibbs as Architects. Drawings were prepared for eight two-storied houses in two blocks of four each and a Contract for their erection was let in August to Messrs. Lam Dore for the sum of $218,856.47.
By the close of the year, the site had been levelled, the necessary retaining walls had been constructed, the foundations of one block of buildings were completed and the foundations of the second block were in progress.
1919 Estimates.......$100,000.00 | Total Estimates, $240,000.00
1919 Expenditure,... 25,390.55 Expenditure to 31/12/19, 25,390.55
1919 Estimates $100,000.00 Total Estimates $240,000.00 1919 Expenditure 25,390.55 Expenditure to 31/12/19 25,390.5589. Additional Storey to P.W.D. Annexe.—The addition consists of the erection of a third storey over the whole of the Annexe building, giving four fairly-large and well-lighted rooms facing North, which are occupied as drawing offices.
A flat roof has been constructed over a portion of the building to provide a space for sunprinting, the materials for which are accommodated in a small store on the roof.
Arrangements had to be made for carrying out the work without interfering unduly with the occupation of the two lower storeys and a matshed roof was therefore erected over the entire building. The contract was commenced at the beginning of the year, the new
P.W.E. Hongkong.
-Q 32
The building is Classic in style, the whole of the front and the main architectural features of the back and end elevations being carried out in cement plaster. Any exposed brickwork in the exterior elevations is of red Formosa facing bricks.
The principal entrance is from Hollywood Road, which is about 25 feet below the level of the compound of the Central Police Station. A granite staircase gives access to the various floors. The main floor is at the level of the Station Compound from which an entrance to the offices and main staircase is provided. Large verandahs extend along the main fronts towards Hollywood Road and the Station Compound on the main and upper floors. 1919 Estimates.......$165,000.00 Total Estimates, Expenditure to
31/12/19,
1919 Expenditure,... 107,413.33
|
$281,000.00
227,633.10
87. Imports and Exports Office,---Connaught Road Block. Owing to the precautions necessary for the safeguarding of adjoin- ing buildings, pile-driving operations, which were in progress at the beginning of the year, were necessarily slow. The piling was, however, completed early in March and, by the end of the year, the erection of the building was nearing completion.
1919 Estimates,
1919 Expenditure,
$50,000.00 Total Estimates, Expenditure to
31/12/19,
41,425.46
$345,000.00
50,654.95
88. Quarters for European Officers, Leighton Hill.-As stated in paragraph 91 of last year's Report, this work was entrusted to Messrs. Dennison, Ram & Gibbs as Architects. Drawings were prepared for eight two-storied houses in two blocks of four each and a Contract for their erection was let in August to Messrs. Lam Dore for the sum of $218,856.47.
By the close of the year, the site had been levelled, the necessary retaining walls had been constructed, the foundations of one block of buildings were completed and the foundations of the second block were in progress.
1919 Estimates.......$ 100,000.00 | Total Estimates,
1919 Expenditure,...
$240,000.00
25,390.55
Expenditure to
31/12/19,
25,390.55
89. Additional Storey to P.W.D. Annexe.—The addition con- sists of the erection of a third storey over the whole of the Annexe building, giving four fairly-large and well-lighted rooms facing North, which are occupied as drawing offices.
A flat roof has been constructed over a portion of the building to provide a space for sunprinting, the materials for which are accommodated in a small store on the roof.
Arrangements had to be made for carrying out the work with- out interfering unduly with the occupation of the two lower storeys and a matshed roof was therefore erected over the entire building. The contract was commenced at the beginning of the year, the new
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