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The entrance hall and waiting room.

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View of the lounge from the entrance hall.

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Part of the lounge with the bar-lounge to the left.

as a sitting room and bedroom or as two bedrooms for small families; some suites have been designed so that the rooms can, when required, be let separately.

Part view of one of the bedrooms.

instead of doors, and these extend from staircase. Should it prove unnecessary, the floor to the ceiling; the higher shelves however, to cater separately for residents, may be used for the storage of luggage. this room can, at any time, very easily Air-conditioning is by means of individual be converted into a suite. units unobtrusive from the outside, while every room is equipped with a telephone.

The rooms are quite large for a modern hotel and all are furnished most comfortably as bed-sitting rooms. Every On the first floor of the bedroom wing. bedroom has a balcony over-looking the is a small private dining room Shatin Valley. Large cupboards in the residents; this has access to the bedrooms are provided with curtains through a covered way and the

Photograph of the restaurant from the lawn.

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A basement under the north-eastern part of the bedroom wing is accessible from the outside and forms a garden and general store. There is a paved car park kitchen for approximately 40 cars between the service hotel and the road. and further public parking space available opposite the Hotel.

The building is of conventional con- struction with а reinforced concrete frame, flat roofs. brick panel walls and steel windows. External finishes are of plaster coloured with Snowcem. with a

certain amount of natural stonework at the ground floor level near the entrance. The plastered walls are finished external- ly with off-white colour to the bedroom wing, light green to the dining room and brown to the balconies. Internal finishes consist of teak parquet floors and plaster- ed walls to public rooms and bedrooms. The walls, though colour washed at pre- sent, will eventually have plastic emul sion paints applied when the building completely dries out. The kitchen and bathrooms have tiled floors and walls, with different colour combinations for the bathrooms.

The hotel has its Own water supply planned by the secretary, Mr. F. F. da Cruz, and provision has been made for

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