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(Left) Typical floor plan of new wing. (Above) Cross section through building.

smaller part-time private have also offered these subjects response to the demand.

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The classrooms on this floor are all alike in layout and size. 23'-6" by 18'-3". The central corridor is 9'-0" wide with borrowed lights in

the walls of the classrooms on each side.

are

schools I was a student abroad, I was al- secondary entrance are pupils' lava- in ways impressed by the fact that wo- tories, a teacher's room with private men were found in all sorts of posi- lavatory and one of the two stair- tions as professors, registrars. each new development at

and cases, the second being located op- of colleges; the University or in the schools, the principals

as lawyers, posite the main entrance.

Parlia- girls have responded to the occasion. barristers and Members of I think they have succeeded best ment; as youth employment officers. when they have been most eager to probation officers, industrial wel- take full advantage of the oppor- fare workers, and innumerable other tunities offered, and have worked types of social workers of which hard and tried to do at least as Hong Kong has the need but not yet well as the men. They have been the openings. At the other end of at their best when they endeavour- the scale.

many were doing good The first and second floors ed to make their added feminine

work suited to their abilities as bus similar in layout to the ground floor contribution to the job in hand, and

ticket collectors. tram conductors with eight classrooms, lavatories and looked not so much for the material

and workers in numerous factories. a teacher's room with private lava- reward as for the spiritual satisfac- tion of a good job well done. Many

tory. On each of these floors, how- "Recent developments in Hong have taken up paid jobs, but if they Kong have already enabled women to

ever, one of the classrooms is some- are doing really good work. no one participate in many of these walks these rooms are used for the teach-

what larger than the others, will feel that they are taking their of life, but there is still much jobs away from men as they can ground

for further development. I ing of art and geography. work together harmoniously in bro- have touched on conditions prevail-

The third floor contains dormi- therly and sisterly co-operation, ing 40 years ago as compared with

headmis- each contributing his or her person- what they are now.

torles, a bedroom for the If any of us al best to the common good for all. are still alive 40 years hence, there

tress, a library, pantry, two

lavatories. There rooms and Many others undertake voluntary is no reason why we should not find covered verandahs on both the north work, especially in the various wel- men and women working together and south sides of the building at

fare organisations. and there is still a good deal of this work waiting to be done by those who have the time and ability to undertake it! We need more good workers in every walk of

life.

happily in all walks of life, each post this level. whose training, ability and tempera- being filled by some man or woman ment will best fit him or her for the jch and everybody rewarded accord- ing to the work that is done."

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The building is constructed with a reinforced concrete frame. the main columns of which have been so located at the four corners of each classroom as to cause the least in- Between each two EX-

"We come finally to the question The new extension is adjacent to terference. of whether society is providing ade- the main school building and faces ternal columns in the classrooms are quate encouragement to girls. You Austin Road. Internal access between two vertical fins. who are administrators and employ- the old and new premises is provid- ers. parents and husbands, this ed at the first intermediate landing Architects: Messrs. Leigh & Orange question is more for you to answer level and from the central corridor General Contractors: Vannini than for me. When I was a child, on the third floor. some parents were only interested in giving their sons a good educa-

The

Con-

struction Co., Ltd. Electrical Installation: The British extension contains four tion and often neglected their storeys at present, but there is a pos-

General Electric Co., Ltd. daughters. That tendency has gra- sibility of an additional floor being Sanitary Installation: The Tung On dually declined, but it is still a ques- added at a later date. On the Plumbing Co., Ltd. tion whether even now there is re- ground floor, the main entrance is in Steel Windows: China Steel Works ally equal opportunity. As regards the south-east corner of the build-

Ltd. the legal and economic points of ing, with a secondary entrance near Roofing: Dreyer & Co.. Ltd. view, as this is a British Colony and the south-west corner; between

in the twentieth these two

Hardware: as we are living

Shewan, Tomes & Co.. entrances lies the main century, it is the natural wish of part of the new wing consisting of Ltd. Chinese women that they should be eight classrooms four on each side Gas Installation: The Hong Kong & given equal rights with men. When of a central corridor. West of the China Gas Co., Ltd.

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