6t. January
HONG KONG BUILDING
BUILDING INDUSTRY
INDUSTRY DIARY
20th February
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING EVENTS JANUARY TO JUNE 1951
to the Government regarding the build- ing of the new City Hall at a future date.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church recently completed in Kowloon, at the junction of Boundary and Fa Yuen Streets, will be dedicated at a special service held to-day. 10th January
In order to conserve the Colony's inadequate fresh water supplies in the event of an outbreak of fire, Govern- ment is building a string of large water tanks around the congested areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon and filling them with sea water.
The Kai Fongs of Tsun Wan were the first to sign the charge book of the new police Station at Tsun Wan which was officially opened by Mr. Chan Wing-on, Chairman of the New Territories Rural Committee, to-day. 15th January
Mr. T. L. Bowring, OBE, Hong Kong's new Director of Public Works, arrived in the Colony, together with Mrs. Bowring, on board the P. and (). Corfu to-day. Mr. H. J. Pearce, formerly Executive Engineer in charge of the Building Office, also ari ived on the Corfu to join the firm of Marsman Hongkong China Ltd.
16th January
The Public Works Department is planning to cover many of the unsight- ly open nullahs which have been a feature of some of the Colony's heavily trafficked roads for years, a Govern- ment spokesman announced to-day. 17th January
The Executive Council of the H.K. Government has approved in principle the establishment of a leprosarium in the Colony provided a suitable site can be found.
18th January
A piece of land put up for auction to-day by Messrs. Lammert Bros. was withdrawn from sale as there was no increase on the auctioneer's opening bid of $46,000.
20th January
The Commerce and Industry De- partment have plans for the building of a Revenue Department station, with quarters attached, at Sheung Shui, New Territories.
21st January
The first planned small town in the New Territories opened to-day.
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It was unanimously decided at meeting of the Chinese Reform As- sociation held in the Jacobean Room, Hongkong Hotel, that a letter with proposals and scheme attached be sent
26th January
One of the largest cinema houses to be built in the Colony will be erected on the vacant plot of ground at the corner of Nathan Road and Kimberley Road, Kowloon, it was announced. 27th January
In order to eliminate the present state of overcrowding in Kowloon Hospital, it is intended to erect another two storeys to the main block to pro- vide additional accommodation, it was learned to-day.
30th January
Colossal changes have taken place in the Colony in the last sixty years, commented Mr. L. E. Lammert, prin- cipal of Messrs. Lammert Biothers, auctioneers, when he gave a talk at the weekly luncheon of Hongkong Rotary Club.
3rd February
The building business in the Colony has been steadily declining since July as the local population daily decreases, a survey revealed.
Two modern lifts to replace the existing four old small lifts in China Building have been ordered from the Otis Elevator Company it was revealed at the annual meeting of shareholders of Chinese Estates, Ltd. The remain- der will be replaced gradually. 5th February
The Hongkong and Kowloon Residents' Association celebrated the opening of its new premises on the first floor of 20-20A Johnston Road, Wanchai.
6th February
Sir Robert Ho Tung has added to his many benefactions in the cause of education by donating to the Colony of Macao funds with which to build a school for poor children. 10th February
The Governor has appointed a Town Planning Board constituted as follows: The Director of Public Works (Chair- man), the Chairman of the Urban Council, Prof. R. Gordon Brown, Mr. S. E. Faber, Mr. N. K. Littlejohn and Mr. W. W. C. Shewan. 14th February
A welfare centre for Tramway Com- pany employees is under construction over Bowrington Canal.
16th February
The first T.B. clinic, designed as such, was opened to-day at the corner of Waterloo Road and Argyle Street, Kowloon, by the Hon. C. E. M. Terry,
Mr. A. S. MacKichan, well-known architect, left the Colony on retirement.
Prof. R. Gordon Brown has been ap- pointed a member of the Authorised Architects Consulting Committee vice Mr. MacKichan who has resigned. 22nd February
The total cost of rehabilitating the old Civil Service Cricket Club pavilion, which is to be the new headquarters of the Hongkong Defence Force, will be $582,000, it was disclosed by the Financial Secretary.
Factories, godowns and tenement houses are to be built on a piece of reclaimed land 960,000 square feet in area at North Point. One third of the Government project, which will cost approximately $3,000,000 has been completed.
3rd March
The premises comprising an area of 33,400 square feet, bounded by Nathan Road and Dundas Street, Kowloon, are owned by the Orient Tobacco Manufac- tory (C. Ingernohl Ltd.), who stated before a Tenancy Tribunal their inten- tion to build a $2,800,000 project inclu- ding shops, offices, showrooms, apart- ments, car park and a super cinema theatre with restaurant. 9th March
The "Great Hall" of the University of Hong Kong, which was severely damaged during the war and has not since been able to serve fully the functions for which it is intended, has now undergone extensive repairs and will be the scene of the University's annual Congregaton on March 16.
Government to-day called for tenders for the erection of Albany Flats in Albany Road.
13th March
The Housing Society of the Hong- kong Council of Social Service has made considerable progress and hopes to be able to make a beginning in the near future on its first building project. Government has allocated a suitable site and building plans have been prepared.
14th March
The Plans of Mr. Kuo Yuan-hsi for the new $230,000 additional buil- ding for the Diocesan Boys'School were selected as the result of an architectural competition in which ten prominent architects participated.
The urgent need for improved housing conditions in the Colony was stressed by Miss D. Ormiston, Secretary of the Hongkong Council of Social Service, in a talk over Radio Hongkong.
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