No_2_1955 — Page 39

NEW GOVERNMENT PRINTING WORKS

Two photographs of the concreting of the mushroom columns.

some time in June, will accommodate

tic in 1941. This increased scope of Government activities has, of course, brought with it а proportionate

the

There is now in course of erection

In addition to the regular periodi- on Java Road. North Point, a two-

cal publications like the Government storey building. 352 feet long by 70 feet wide which, when completed amount of paper work, and

Gazette which is issued every week and the monthly Trade Statistics of one of the most modern, up-to-date quantity and variety of forms requir- Imports and Exports, there are of course the innumerable special re- ed for every Government department and complete printing plants in the Colony. This is the new Government at the present time is tremendous. ports. some of them extremely leng- thy and complicated: the annual Printing Works in which all the In addition. Government's policy of budget. the Legislative Council re- printing required for and by all giving the fullest publicity to the ports and reports of special commit- Government departments will be activities of the various departments tees and commissions which are or done.

has required the printing of weekly, have been set up by Government to monthly and, particularly, annual assist in advising on or making re- To keep pace with the growth of reports far beyond those previously commendations covering the thousand Hong Kong during the past ten years undertaken; one has only to visit the and one problems which arise during and the increasing participation of

counter at the Post the course of the year. Government in the social, educa- publications tional, commercial and cultural life Office to realise the tremendous of the Colony, every department has amount of work required to keep up been increased to an extent that with this part of Government's ac- would have been considered fantas- tivities alone.

Pre-war, all the printing required by Government was done mainly on contract, by a private firm with some assistance by work which was done

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The north and south elevations of the building.

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