No_4_1960 — Page 47

The building is still in the plan- ning stage. The lay-out and site plan have been submitted to the Singapore Housing and Development Board for approval.

The building plan will be sub- mitted to the City Council after the Board has approved the site plan.

It is expected that piling work will begin early next year, and the building should be completed in about two years.

Original estimate for the structure is about M$1,000.000, but it will probably be around M$1,500,000.

Tenders will be called after the building plan has been approved.

The present Chamber building is about 70 years old and was once the residence of a wealthy Chinese merchant.

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CAR PARK

SECTION

Section showing how the auditorium and car park are accommodated in the design.

RIVER TRAINING. Above 1.100 feet of the Shing Mun River between Taipo Road and the railway bridge at Sha Tin is to be trained to allow for urban development adjoining Tai Wai Village.

The training of this section of the river will protect the adjacent cultivated fields from flooding. Work will be completed in May 1961.

The work involves the formation. grading and lining of the river channel, which will be 125 feet wide. Earth bunds, over ten feet wide. will be constructed on each side of the river and these will be lined with six inches of concrete.

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