Officer, Major Burton Pedlar presented the key to Mr. Holmes as all guests present assembled outside the Chapel, 19th August
The South China Morning Post to- day published an article and diagram of a planned shopping centre for the City of Victoria which suggested some revolutionary changes for methods of shopkeeping.
The Director of Public Works has pointed out that the report, appearing recently in one of the vernacular daily papers to the effect that the con tract for building the new Hongkong Government offices has been awarded, is incorrect. A contract for the de- molition of the old Defence Force Headquarters has been awarded. molition work will be started next month. It will not be possible to let a contract for the first section of the new Government offices until Decem- ber at the earliest.
De-
Government has been concerned for some time about the problem of re- settling the thousands of homeless people in the Colony who are often described as "squatters. 19 It is re- vealed that the outlines of a compre- hensive scheme have been approved whereby they will be moved into selected areas where they can occupy simple and hygienie accommodation, at the same time be provided with fire precautions, as well as some rudi- mentary administrative services where they will have rather security of tenure than most of them have enjoyed so far. 21st August
and
more
Mr. Hugh Braga, Managing Director of Metropolitan Construction Co., Ltd., and Hugh Braga & Co., Ltd., left the Colony for Australia by the Tai-Yuan today with his family on a six-month furlough.
22nd August
Behind a display advertisement in the 8. C. M. Post offering for sale two important properties at North Point and Taikoktsui and a godown at West Point, representing a total
Oxygen etc.
GOVERNMENT
Oxygen & Acetylene
land area of over 300,000 square feet, lies an interesting story of the de- velopment of the Hongkong branch of a world-wide organisation, the Asiatic Petroleum Company. The decision to evacuate these long-established settle- ments by no means indicated any de- sire to curtail the Company's acti vities in Hongkong, declared an official of the A.P.C. On the contrary, the move was a logical outcome of mana- gerial policy. The main distribution of oil would now take place at Kun- tong, on the mainland side of the Harbour, built on a site which had been acquired in 1947 and which had since become one of the most modern oil marketing installations in the Far East.
23rd August
Accepting the principle of disper- gion of cross-harbour traffic recom- mended by the Harbour Ferry Services Advisory Committee, Government has decided to inaugurate new ferry ser vices. Top priority will be given to two passenger services between Kowloon City and Wanchai, and be tween Kowloon City and Central, Hongkong. The Committee recom. mended against the building of a cross-harbour bridge, but suggested that full consideration be given to the possibility of a cross-harbour tunnel.
Dr. and Mrs. Eruest To have moved to a flat in the Repulse Bay area while their house in Sassoon Road, the old and lovely Villa Magnolia, is being pulled down to make way for a new home.
24th August
Speaking at the Kowloon Rotary Club luncheon yesterday, Rotarian James Chun-wah, BE (Syd.), AMIE (Aust.), AMICE, said that many of the post-war buildings in Hongkong erected by speculators were modern in many respects, but the size and arrangement of the rooms left much to be desired. He predicted that though some of the buildings were fine modern examples, the majority would eventually be inhabited by people of
CONTRACTS AWARDED DURING JULY
Construction of Water- works workshop—Wan
the lower strata of society when the housing shortage abated.
Two applications by Mr. J. H. Bot- tomley, Public Works Department architect, for a closure order against premises at Tit Hong Lane, Central, and 6 Wilmer Street, West Point, and the consequent eviction of the occu- piers, were granted by Mr. Poon at Central,
25th August
The Royal
Defence Hongkong Force, who have been moving over the past three weeks to their half million dollar Headquar-
new
ters at the corner of Morrison and Sports Roads, made the final shift of their office desks and other equipment into the new premises. 26th August
The recently completed building that houses the Norwegian Seamen's Mission and Church, situated at Cox's Road, was dedicated at an impressive service held to-day. A large and re- presentative congregation was present. 29th August
Construction of the new Y.W,C.A. building at the corner of Garden and Macdonnell Roads to house а com- bined auditorium and gymnasium, offices, dining and club rooms and a hostel, will commence as soon as the plans have been approved by the Building Authority, said Miss Тал
A
Jen-chui in a talk on the work of the Hongkong Y.W.C.A. over Radio Hong- kong last evening. The site has been donated by Government. 30th August
Hongkong is to spend $40,000,000 on a new water works project in the Tai Lam Chung Valley, New Territories which, on the basis of the Colony's present requirements, should enable a full, uninterrupted, 24-hour water ser vice to be supplied throughout the year. Construction of the main reser- voir which will hold 1,150 million gallons plus the necessary ancillary reservoirs, filters, aquaduet and pipe- lines is expected to take between three and 311⁄2 years to complete.
AUGUST 1951,
at Kowloon
―
China
ramp
station
Co, Ltd.
Oxygen etc.
(estimated) * 13,654.96
Far East
Hin
292,659,10
Training
Underground water tank,
Mun River
-
Ngai Foon.. works, Shing Fook Lee
2,813.00
Stone ballast for main-
Oxygen & Acetylene Co. (estimated)
tenance and relaying tracks-Hay Ley & Co. Stone ballast for main-
tenance
tracks Ngai Foon
Repairs to "A" godown,
Chan Hing
Reconstruction of Castle
Peak Road
Construction Co.
—
7,322.62
39,240,00
Ngai Foon
Demolition of the former Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Head- quarters Sang Lee
5,125,50
& Co.
95,300.00
Extension of North Point
sea wall Union Con- struction Co.
440,000,00
Supply of asphaltum
and relaying
2,884,00
19,388,70
-
Lam
& Co.
Reconstruction of side streets, Yu Chau Street and part of Dundas Street Union Cou- struction Co.
43,100,00
Caltex (China) Ltd.
258,400,00
Supply of asphaltum
242,693,00
399,733.00
Reconstructing
loading
Standard - Vacuum Oil Co.
Bowen Road service re-
servoir Ching Hing Construction Co.
170,424,00
1,325,497.14
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