The Chi Fuk Construction Company urban lot to be held in the Colony since ders. Purchase conditions call for comple has started work on a $193,500 Govern- the war. Upset price $9,450,000. The tion of office building/s within two years ment contract to repave the surface of site includes the old Lo Lung Hang at cost of $600,000.
the Tsimshatsui bus terminal with a ten- inch layer of concrete. The Kowloon Motor Bus Company is, at the same time, increasing its shelters to eight and leng- thening them so that their northern ends will form a line thirty feet from the Salisbury Road footpath, with the shelt- ers ranging in length from 80 to 240 feet. Work should be completed by October. June 16th
quarry and extends from Valley Road to Pak Kung Street, Hung Hom.
Government is to build a new resettle- ment estate in the Kun Tong area to house over 55.000 people in 26 blocks of seven-storey resettlement buildings. Ten- ders for the preliminary drainage
work
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A report received by the Director of Public Works from Messrs. Binnie, Dea- con and Gourlay, consulting engineers, says the Shek Pik Reservoir on Lantao Island is a practical proposition. It will be about the same size as l'ai Lam Chung. have been called.
Tenders are called also for the construc- will be made as soon
A further report and estimate of the cost as possible, and tion of two seven-storey resettlement The Jardine Dyeing and Finishing
Government assumes work can be started blocks Company, Ltd. is building a new factory Wan, off Island Road, to be completed the construction of bungalows to house to house 6,000 people at Chai in the near future Tenders are called for on waste land beyond Shatin to the design of Mr. Faitfone Wong of the by about March next. Hongkong Engineering & Construction June 22nd Company. It will be the most modern of
engineers etc. working on the project.
More than 800 police families are to be' its kind in South East Asia and will of Works and Mr. T. Geraghty, Assistant Five blocks
Mr. D. E. E. Gibson, Director-General housed in new quarters at Shamshuipo. of buildings, each eleven handle bleaching, mercerising, dyeing. Undersecretary (Works), both of the War storeys high,
are to be erected at the printing and
finishing to improve both Office, arrived from London to tour Army junction of Cheungshawan Road and the range and quality of local textiles.
installations in Hongkong. Mr. Gibson Tonkin Street. This is the biggest police June 19th
is an Associate of the Royal Institute accommodation project so far undertaken. The Hon. J. C. McDouall, Secretary for of British Architects and an Associate Piling is expected to begin in August. Chinese Affairs, laid the foundation stone Member of the Town Planning Institute. Government proposes to reclaim part of of the Holy Carpenter Church and Hostel As City Architect of Coventry he was the Yaumati Typhoon Shelter to provide at Dyer Avenue, Kowloon. The hostel responsible for replanning that city after will accommodate factory girls at $5 a the War. month.
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additional access to Taikoktsui. Tong Mei Road is to be extended from Cherry Street to a point south of Nelson Street by a seawall to reclaim about 61,200 square feet of Crown foreshore and seabed.
The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking The Crown Lands and Survey Office of Corporation (original applicants) bought a the P.W.D. advertised the sale by auc- Lot of Crown Land at Tai Pa. Tsun Wan,
To improve sea access between Hong tion of about 690,000 square feet of at a public auction held in the District kong and Tsing Yi Island, opposite Tsun Crown Land in Chatham Road Kowloon Office, South, Gascoigne Road. The 16,000 Wan, Government proposes to build a opposite the Hung Hom Police Station- square feet were sold for $67,600 the reinforced-concrete public pier III feet the largest sale of Crown Land in a single upset price there being no other bid- long with a frontage of 81 feet.
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