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Lion Court flats at Stanley

yard area in which existing trees, shrubbery and rocks will be preserved. They will occupy only 17,000 sq.ft. of the site, leaving extensive areas for landscaping and car parking.

The estate will be known as Lion Court and has been leased for six years to the Composite Or- ganisation Station. Flats will contain a spacious liv- ing and dining area, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, servants' quarters and a utility area. Upper floor flats will have balconies while ground floor flats will have private gardens.

The architects are Spence Robinson & Partners.

Electrical contract worth HK$1.6 m.

A contract worth HK$1.6 million has been awarded to Ge Ling Engineering Co. for electrical

installations in the new Lee Gardens Hotel now under construction at Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay.

Siemens electrical equipment will be used in the hotel which is due to open at the end of this year. The 22-storey building will contain 900 guest rooms, restaurants and night club, Architects are Eric Cumine Associates.

High Island water scheme to proceed

Hong Kong Government has decided that it must proceed at once to implement the High Island water scheme which is estimated to cost HK$1,000 million and will eventually provide 70 million gal- lons a day.

Sir John Cowperthwaite, financial secretary, said last month that the expected cost included the necessary extension of the trunk distribution system and was HK$300 million more than the Plover Cove reservoir in its extended form.

He said that Government's basic aim was to pro- vide a 'minimum of four hours every day from our own resources' and a supply system that would achieve this would, in practice, give the colony a 24-hour a day supply in all reasonably normal cir- cumstances.

The High Island scheme could not reach full supply before 1979 and therefore it had also been decided to set up desalting plants capable of pro- ducing 20 million gallons a day by 1974. Water produced from these plants would cost twice that of natural supplies. Capital cost of such a plant was estimated at HK$190 million.

Development consultancy launched

A property development consultancy and pro- ject management service has been set up in Singa- pore under the control of Mr. A.I.G. Harding, a chartered surveyor and formerly general manager of Singapore Land & Investment Co. Ltd. The practice incorporates an estate agency, auctioneer- ing and valuation service.

Lee Gardens Hotel

Far East BUILDER, March 1971

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