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SECTION I
Sub-Section ii.
1. THE MAIN BUILDING
The present Library, while having adequate accommodation, is not using space available to best advantage. Many additional lecture rooms and offices will be required within the Main Building to cope with the proposals of the Faculty of Arts for extended courses in Philosophy, Geography and practical Geology, Languages, Social Studies, Statistics, Far Eastern Studies and Education, and for provision of Honours Courses. This extra accommodation will be provided by re-housing the Library in the re-built and enlarged Great Hall (releasing 10 rooms and some offices) and by the completion of the southern quadrangles of the Main Building. The present Commerce Building would necessarily be demolished, and its services housed in the new extension. Adequate accommodation would be allocated from the extension for the Department of Education, obviating the need for a separate Building to house an Institute of Education, as recommended by the Faculty of Arts. Air-conditioning of the new Library is also recommended.
It is recommended that the University Main Building be completed by the addition of two southern wings joined by a block running East and West, and that the derelict Great Hall be rebuilt to house the Library and extended to the rear, thus forming two further quadrangles balancing the existing two. This extension was envisaged in the drawing up of the original plans for the Building.
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The cost is estimated at about:
New Library:
Completion of Main Building:
Furniture:
Flooring to existing Class-rooms:
(about 12,000 sq. ft.)
$600,000
$1,250,000
100,000
50,000
$2,000,000
Assistance is required for this.
2.
GREAT HALL
The Great Hall was found too small for our 1941 numbers, and would be now completely inadequate. A site suggested is on the present Gymnasium site. Plans are being prepared showing motor road approaches to a new Great Hall, in relationship with approaches to all other University Buildings.
It is recommended that a Great Hall be built at least one half as large again as the present derelict Great Hall, and on a different site.
This would cost a minimum of $840,000, two-thirds of which would be re-establishment and one-third development.
Assistance would be needed as follows:
Re-establishment: Development
3. STAFF RESIDENCES
$560,000 $280,000
Pre-war, accommodation in Hong Kong was not a problem of the magnitude that it is now, and many of the expatriate staff lived outside the University. Present housing conditions makes it incumbent upon the University to provide accommodation well in
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