Appendix Q.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
FOR THE YEAR 1938.
During the year under review the operations of the Public Works Department were carried out, under a head office staff, by eleven sub-departments: Accounts and Stores (later, Accounts), Architectural, Buildings Ordinance, Crown Lands and Surveys, Drainage, Electrical, Port Development, Roads and Transport, Valuations and Resumptions, Waterworks Construction and Waterworks Maintenance.
2. As from the 1st June, 1938, all work in connection with the purchase of Government stores was removed from the Public Works Department, and was taken over by an independent Stores Department. Tables I to III at the end of this report include, however, expenditure incurred by the Government Stores Department to 31st December, 1938, as no provision was made for the new department in the estimates for 1938.
3. The European staff of the Public Works Department comprised 148 officers, including 9 temporary officers, and the non-European 557, including 12 temporary officers. The number of daily paid artisans and labourers averaged 1,778.
4. The following is a summary of works carried out during the year :—
BUILDINGS.
5. Works completed were: market at Wongneichong; hutment camps for refugees at King's Park, Ma Tau Chung and North Point; quarters for sextons at New Kowloon Cemetery No. 7; engine house at Hung Hom Wireless Station; two public latrines at Stanley Village; isolation block at Kowloon Hospital and air conditioning of the operating theatre; additional block of flats at Hong Kong Prison; extension to gardeners quarters, Sookunpoo; conversion of the former Victoria Hospital into four flats and the nursing staff quarters into two semi-detached houses; additional ward blocks at Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital; alterations to Central Magistracy to provide a third court and offices; Garage at Taipo; conversion to flush system of Hing Wan Street and Belchers Street Latrines; shelter at Queen Mary Hospital; alterations and additions to convert the lower blocks at the former Lai Chi Kok Prison into a relief hospital and the upper blocks into an infectious diseases hospital; demolition of buildings at Arsenal Street.
6. Works under construction were :-- New Central Market; additions to Tsan Yuk Hospital.
7. In addition to general maintenance, numerous minor alterations, improvements and additions to government buildings were carried out during the year.
COMMUNICATIONS.
8. Works completed were :-- Superelevation of bends on Wongneichong Gap Road; raising Electric Road to new town planning levels; re-construction of bridge at Deep Water Bay; forming of 6-foot wide approach path to Chai Wan Cemetery; forming access roads to the refugee camps at Ma Tau Chung, King's Park, and North Point; road diversion at 5th mile, Taipo Road; forming Customs Pass Road; superelevating and improving Castle Peak Road; forming approach road to Lai Chi Kok Cholera Hospital; surfacing Smugglers Gap Road; surfacing Shatin Pass Road; forming road to Lai Chi Kok bathing beach; road diversion, Sai Kung Road; widening and surfacing Taipo Road from the market to the railway bridge; forming car parks adjoining bathing beaches on the Castle Peak Road; resurfacing Tsun Wan Market Road; forming road from Sheung Shui to Mak Fu Ferry.
Appendix Q.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
FOR THE YEAR 1938.
During the year under review the operations of the Public Works Department were carried out, under a head office staff, by eleven sub-departments: Accounts and Stores (later, Accounts), Architectural, Buildings Ordinance, Crown Lands and Surveys, Drainage, Electrical, Port Development, Roads and Transport, Valuations and Resumptions, Waterworks Construction and Waterworks Maintenance.
2. As from the 1st June, 1938, all work in connection with the purchase of Government stores was removed from the Public Works Department, and was taken over by an independent Stores Department. Tables I to III at the end of this report include, however, expenditure incurred by the Government Stores Department to 31st December, 1938, as no provision was made for the new department in the estimates for 1938.
3. The European staff of the Public Works Department comprised 148 officers, including 9 temporary officers, and the non-European 557, including 12 temporary officers. The number of daily paid artisans and labourers averaged 1,778.
4. The following is a summary of works carried out during the year :—
BUILDINGS.
5. Works completed were:market at Wongneichong; hutment camps for refugees at King's Park, Ma Tau Chung and North Point; quarters for sextons at New Kowloon Cemetery No. 7; engine house at Hung Hom Wireless Station; two public latrines at Stanley Village; isolation block at Kowloon Hospital and air condi- tioning of the operating theatre; additional block of flats at Hong Kong Prison; extension to gardeners quarters, Sookunpoo; conversion of the former Victoria Hospital into four flats and the nursing staff quarters into two semi detached houses; additional ward blocks at Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital; alterations to Central Magistracy to provide a third court and offices; Garage at Taipo; conversion to flush system of Hing Wan Street and Belchers Street Latrines; shelter at Queen Mary Hospital; alterations and additions to convert the lower blocks at the former Lai Chi Kok Prison into a relief hospital and the upper blocks into an infectious diseases hospital; demolition of buildings at Arsenal Street.
6. Works under construction were :--New Central Market; additions to Tsan Yuk Hospital.
7. In addition to general maintenance, numerous minor alterations, improvements and additions to government buildings were carried out during the year.
COMMUNICATIONS.
8. Works completed were :--Superelevation of bends on Wongneichong Gap Road; raising Electric Road to new town planning levels; re-construction of bridge at Deep Water Bay; forming of 6-foot wide approach path to Chai Wan Cemetery; forming access roads to the refugee camps at Ma Tau Chung, King's Park, and North Point; road diversion at 5th mile, Taipo Road; forming Customs Pass Road; superelevating and improving Castle Peak Road; forming approach road to Lai Chi Kok Cholera Hospital; surfacing Smugglers Gap Road; surfacing Shatin Pass Road; forming road to Lai Chi Kok bathing beach; road diversion, Sai Kung Road; widening and surfacing Taipo Road from the market to the railway bridge; forming car parks adjoining bathing beaches on the Castle Peak Road; resurfacing Tsun Wan Market Road; forming road from Sheung Shui to Mak Fu Ferry.
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