Hong Kong Builder
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL WORKS COMPLETED DURING 1939
Central Government Store: The scheme provides for a sturage yard of about 160,000 square feet enclosed by a reinforced concrete wall. The huilding is of two storeys containing office accommodation and large warehouses and is constructed of a reinforced concrete frame carried on concrete piles with concrete floors and flat roof, brick panel walls and filled with metal windows. A detached building of one storey is provided for the storage of oil. The contract was let to Messrs. Kin Lee & Co.. on 26th April and the work was nearing completion by the end of the YERT, The Tung Tai Engineering Co., Ltd. were the contractors for the supply of the metal windows. Alterations to the adjoining building formerly the property of the Yacht Club were being carried out by MensTN. Tak Hing & Co., to provide a garage and quarters for the Asiatic staff.
New Government House:-Drawings were prepared for a house to be situated near Magazine Gap at a level of about 900 P.D. The site consists of an irregular spur which slopes steeply on three sides and commands
■ magnificent view. The precipitous nuture of the ground restricted the aren available for building and considerable difficulty was experienced in providing sufficient area for the accommodation required together with the ample approach and parking space NECESSAT for a building of this nature. The plans provide for a building of three storeys containing a semi-basement, basement, ground and first floors. The semi-basement is approached by a separate entrance at the lower level for the delivery of all goods and contains offices for the custodian and clerks, kitchens.
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the huts which by that time had been completed, were taken over by Government to be used for other purposes.
Ellia Kadoorie School-conversion of annexe into gymnasium:-The work, which was commenced in April and completed in August, consisted of the conversion of a building formerly used as an evening school and included the laying of a suitable wood Roor, provision of gymnasium equipment and the formation of a changing room and lavatory.
Vernacular Normal and Middle School-new latrines:-New lavatory accommodation and increased playground space was provided. The work Was commenced in October and completed in December.
Queen Mary Howpita!—additions and improvements:-This work con- sisted of the conversion of the food service rooms into additional ward kitchens, the fixing of grilles and bostwick gates to doors and windows. the provision of steel shelving, the fixing of special fittings to windows for blinds and the supply of notice boards. The work was carried out at different periods as circumstances permitted during the year.
A car shelter was erected in brick and concrete adjoining the local medical staff quarlers and an extension was made to the garage block of the nursing staff quarters. The contract was let to Messrs. Kin Lee & Company on 17th April and completed on 23rd June.
Western Market—reprovision south block:-The scheme provides for the removal of the old type of stalls and a revision of the layout with new stalls of eencrete finished with terrazzo, There will be forty-nine
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the firat floor. General repairs including the renewal of drainage, surfacing to floors and yard. renewal of the roof covering and other necessary alterations will be undertaken. Owing to the pressure of other work it was only possible to complete the working drawings and details by the end of the yeaT.
Prisons-alteratione:— At Hong Kong Prison, Stanley.
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poet and wire mesh fence with gates was erected and other minor works were carried out to sub-divide the prison. A contract was let to Messrs. Yee Lee & Company on 5th April and the work WIN satisfactorily completed un 19th July. At Victoria Gaol, alterations were carried out to the top floor of the east wing, including the erection of a concrete stair to provide accommodation for the staff in connexion with the reopening of part of the gaol KS A Remand Prison. The work WEE commenced in April and completed in August.
healing and air conditioning chambers, stores and an air raid shelter. fish stalls on the ground floor and fifty-two fruit and vegetable stalls on Quarters for personal servants are also situated at this level. The ground floor is divided into three suites, the office suite, state suite and private suite each having separate entrances. The office suite contains offices for H.E. the Governor, the A.D.C.. the Private Secretary, stenographers. waiting room and lavatory accommodation. The state suite is placed on the central axis and is entered from a wide portico. Cloak rooms are situated on each side of the entrance hall from which a wide flight of steps gives access to the inner and main stair hall. These two halls provide circulation for the reception room, dining горла. ball room loggia and the large ball room from which ample egress is provided leading directly on to a spacious paved terrace overlooking the grounds and gardens. The private sulte, which is self contained, is situated at the west end of the building and consists of a lounge and winter garden, 1 drawing room, dining room, library, writing room and one other additional room. A billiard room is situated between this suite and the state suite and has access from both. The principal rooms open out on to a wide verandah from which a broad flight of steps leads down to a grass terrace. Below this is situated an Italian garden to be laid out in formal manner with paths and flower beds and flanked on one side by stone pergola which surmounts one of the retaining walls forming a feature of the landscape gardening. Beyond this are situated broad lawns, which, suitably terraced and planted with trees would merge into the surrounding hill side. The first floor is occupied by a private suite of bedrooms at the west end, a small suite of rooms for the A.D.C. at the east end and in the centre by guest rooms. The total number of bedrooms provided is eighteen and each has a bathroom opening from it also a large fitted clothes closet which would be air conditioned.
A contract amounting to $324,601,50 was let to Messrs. Tung Shan * Company on 17th August, which consisted of earth cutting, granite retaining walls and the foundations for the building with part of the basement, also timber framed hutments for the accommodation of the workmen to be erected at Murrison Hill. Owing to the outbreak of war in Europe it was dreided on 2th September to cancel the contract and
Au Tau Police Station-garage:—A contract was let to Mesara, Kwok Voon & Co., on 26th September, and the work, which consisted of a brick and concrete building, was completed on 9th December.
Botanical and Forestry Office. Lai Chi Kok:-A contract was lel to Messrs. Tung Shan & Company on 25th October and the work, which involved the construction of an office and lavatory in brick and concrete. was completed on 11th December.
Conversion of Public Works Department Garages into Office :—The contract for the demolition of the garage block of one storey and the erection of a building of two storeys in brick with a flat concrete roof to provide an additional 3,379 square feet of actual office accommodation was let to Messts. Hoo Cheong & Co., on 14th April and the work was satisfactorily completed on 22nd August. The ground floor was occupied by Air Raid Precautions Department and the first floor by the Water Works Construction Office.
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Conversion of Nursing Sisters' Quarters. Government Civil Hospital Ц Mental Hospital:- Extensive alterations to convert the cast block
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