CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9] — Page 274

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COPY.

No. 3

Condosure 2.

Report of Proceedings

of the

Public Works Committee

at a meeting held on the 7th June, 1917.

264

Present:-

The Hon. the Director of Public Works, (William Chatham, C.M.G.)

Chairman.

the Colonial Treasurer, (Edward Dudley Corscaden Wolfe)

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Mr. Wei Yuk, 0. M. G.

Mr. Robert Gordon Shewan.

Mr. Stanley Hudson Dodwell.

Offices for Immorts & Exports Department

The Chairman laid before the Committee preliminary drawings for permanent offices for the Imports and Exports Department, to be erected on the land at present occupied by the temporary offices to the south end and east of the Harbour Office. The drawings showed that it was proposed to erect a 4-storied building, about 141'0" x 51'0", fronting on Des Voeur Road and a 3-storied building, about 50'0" x 45'0", fronting on Connaught Road, the latter forming an extension of the existing Harbour Office building. The scheme also involved the demolition of the existing boatmen's quarters, &c., in connection with the Harbour Office and the erection of a new block of subsidiary buildings in the compound which would be enclosed by the Harbour Office and the proposed Imports and Exports Offices.

The whole of the 3-storied building, fronting on Comaught Road, and three floors of the 4-storied building, fronting on Des Voeux Road, would afford the accommodation specified by the Superintendent of the Imports and Exports Department, but in the case of the latter building, a fourth storey had been added