Q 97
Works carried out for the Military Authorities.
A short description of these works is given in the following paragraphs:
(i.) Transfer Shelter at Garden Road.-A Contract was let to Messrs. Kin Lee & Co. for this shelter to be used for the purpose of transferring casualties from ambulances to hand stretchers. The work was satisfactorily carried out.
(ii) Sewer connections.-A six inch sewer was extended to the Dragon Garage at Wong Nei Chong Gap Road used as temporary Military Quarters, and a connection made to the latrine.
Connections were also given to the stables in Middle and Salisbury Roads, and the Peninsula Hotel in Salisbury Road, Kowloon, and to the Rope Factory at Ma Tau Kok.
(iii.) Erection of a Camp at Sham Shui Po.-The scheme comprised the erection and equipment of a large camp of wooden huts to accommodate two Infantry Battalions, with the necessary roads, stormwater drainage, water supply, and lighting. About 140 huts were erected comprising the following: Platoon Huts, Officers' Quarters, Mess and Dining Rooms, Offices, Cook-houses, Latrines, Ablution Sheds, Guard Houses, Regimental Institutes, and various Stores.
With the exception of the Guard Houses and Food Stores which were built of brickwork, the huts were constructed on a wooden frame with weather-board sides, boarding and Malthoid roofs, and concrete floors.
The work also included the provision of all the necessary furniture and fittings, 900 Electric light and fan points, two telephones, and the formation of tennis courts.
The drainage work comprised three large open stormwater channels of a special design constructed through the Camp, with twelve wooden bridges erected across them.
Sullage channels, pipe drains and gullies were laid round the Huts, etc., and trapped connections made.
A twenty-one inch stormwater drain was constructed in Lai Chi Kok Road. A twelve inch stormwater channel was constructed in Apliu Street to drain pools, and an eighteen inch outfall sewer was extended in the street (un-named) parallel to and North-West of Yen Chow Street.
The arrival of large numbers of troops in the Colony made acceleration in the construction of the Camp of the greatest importance. The two principal Contracts for the erection of the Huts by The Hong Kong Excavation, Pile Driving and Construction Company, Ltd., and Messrs. Kin Lee & Co., were signed
Q 97
Works carried out for the Military Authorities.
A short description of these works is given in the following paragraphs:
(i.) Transfer Shelter at Garden Road.-A Contract was let to Messrs. Kin Lee & Co. for this shelter to be used for the purpose of transferring casualties from ambulances to hand stretchers. The work was satisfactorily carried out.
(ii) Sewer connections.-A six inch sewer was extended to the Dragon Garage at Wong Nei Chong Gap Road used as temporary Military Quarters, and a connection made to the latrine.
Connections were also given to the stables in Middle and Salisbury Roads, and the Peninsula Hotel in Salisbury Road, Kowloon, and to the Rope Factory at Ma Tau Kok.
(iii.) Erection of a Camp at Sham Shui Po.-The scheme. comprised the erection and equipment of a large camp of wooden huts to accommodate two Infantry Battalions, with the necessary roads, stormwater drainage, water supply, and lighting. About 140 huts were erected comprising the follow- ing: Platoon Huts, Officers' Quarters, Mess and Dining Rooms, Offices, Cook-houses, Latrines, Ablution Sheds, Guard Houses, Regimental Institutes, and various Stores.
With the exception of the Guard Houses and Food Stores which were built of brickwork, the huts were constructed on a wooden frame with weather-board sides, boarding and Malthoid roofs, and concrete floors.
The work also included the provision of all the necessary furniture and fittings, 900 Electric light and fan points, two telephones, and the formation of tennis courts.
The drainage work comprised three large open stormwater channels of a special design constructed through the Camp, with twelve wooden bridges erected across them.
Sullage channels, pipe drains and gullies were laid round the Huts, etc., and trapped connections made.
A twenty-one inch stormwater drain was constructed in Lai Chi Kok Road. A twelve inch stormwater channel was cons- tructed in Apliu Street to drain pools, and an eighteen inch outfall sewer was extended in the street (un-named) parallel to and North-West of Yen Chow Street.
The arrival of large numbers of troops in the Colony made acceleration in the construction of the Camp of the greatest importance. The two principal Contracts for the erection of the Huts by The Hong Kong Excavation, Pile Driving and Construc- tion Company, Ltd., and Messrs. Kin Lee & Co., were signed
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