CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947 — Page 38

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TABLE B.

Date on which repairs completed or evacuated by Jap. P.O.W. or Camp built & ready for occupation

End of February.

Probably end of February.

Additional accommodation (approx. number of men) provided for

1,100 men.

1,200 men.

Not Known

One Bu.

Not Known

Dependent on War

Bde. H.Q.

Not Known

Office Authority.

One Bu.

One Bu.

Not Known

List of premises, if any, which will be released on completion of each Barracks or Hutted Camp or of repairs

132 Nathan Road, Humphrey's Bldgs. (No further accommodation can be released as an additional 1,600 ips are expected in the near future.)

NIL. Stanley Camp will be used to Acen one Cdo which is now on its way.

Although these Camps will be capable of taking the whole of 3 Cdo Bdle, it may not be possible to move the Bde into them owing to the tactical disposition.

FORECAST BY ARMY OF NEW OR REPAIRED ACCOMMODATION

BY REPATRIATION

AND

OF ACCOMMODATION

FREED

OF JAPANESE PRISONERS AND INTERNEES.

Name of Barracks

or Hutted camp

SHAMSHUIPO

!

STANLEY

VOLUNTEER RIDGE TAILAM

DILLS CORNER

OLD RACECOURSE

3

.

1

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APPENDIX 4.

REPORT ON THE ACCOMMODATION SITUATION AS AT 1 APRIL, 1946.

1. The number of requisitioned properties occupied by each Service, by categories, as at 1 April, 1946, is as follows:-

Type of Building

R.N.

Misc. Inter- national Relief

Nos. occupied by

R.A.F. Combined (hinese

Organi-

Services Army

zation

ARMY

CAS. Totals

Hospitals

N

*[001}S

ເກ

8

Offices

1

-

20

13

Godowns

6

38

7

12

3

70

Hotelst

B

4

6

G

28

Pte. Housest..

22

80

84

I

19

316

Misc.

20

38

26

3

1

17

105

Individual Flatst

6

1:35

116

16

40

301

Totals ......

58

311

241

20

97

17

Type of Building

† Of above just over 600 are European type houses, flats or hotels,

2. Forecast of release of remaining premises is as follows:-

Month due to be released

Hospitals ...... Schools ...

Offices................

Apr.

May

Jun.

Godowns ...............

Hotels ............

2

Pte. Houses ...

14

Flats

B

Misc.

Totals......

23

-

19

2

100

97 (a)

p

2

1

Jul.

Aug.

Sept.

99

(a) 95 of

these are occupied as

billets for

Chinese Army

Total 130

It is quite impossible to say what further releases can be made until factors, such as ultimate size of garrison, arrival of building materials, construction of additional barracks and hutted camps, etc., are known.

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