No_4_November_and_December__1952 — Page 48

ACCOMMODATION

for

MILITARY

PERSONNEL

in the

NEW TERRITORIES

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Photograph of the beginning of the development at Sek Kong.

HE Army authorities, keeping with their policy of providing as suitable amenities as possible to officers and other ranks and thus causing the least incon- venience and hardship to married couples serving in the Colony, are pushing ahead rapidly with their plans to establish semipermanent accommodation adjacent to the main camps in the New Territories. Not only does this serve to release property at present requisitioned, but it also means that the past situa. tion, where a man was serving in the New Territories while his family was billeted in Kowloon, will be alleviated. This plan will help to ease the already acute accommoda- tion problem in the Colony, and also enable the servicemen to relax with

their families except when actually on duty, instead of having to make tedious journeys to visit them between long periods of separation.

One such scheme is already well on the way to completion at Sek Kong, where a total of two hundred temporary Married Quarters have been built, 20 of them for occupation by officers and the remainder by

other ranks.

The quarters are of three main types: Type 1 for officers, with a dining room, living room and two bedrooms. Type 2 for other ranks, with a combined living room and dining room and two bedrooms. Type 3 for other ranks with large families, with a combined living room and dining room and three bedrooms. All three types have a kitchen, bathroom, W.C. and

shower, plus generous cupboard space, and large verandahs on both sides of the building. Provision for servant accommodation has been made by housing them in separate blocks, where each servant will have quite a large room, but kitchen and bathroom facilities will be com- munal; latrines are provided for them in adjacent blocks.

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To facilitate quantity erection all units of the scheme are identical in dimensions, except for the servants' quarters which have no verandahs, of hollow concrete block construction, except on bearing walls where the hollow blocks are filled with concrete. The roofing is of wood covered with sanded roofing felt. There being no sewerage facilities at Sek Kong, all W.Cs. are of the "Elsan" dry closet type.

VERAN DAN

KITCHEN

BATH

VERANDAH

BATH ROON

VERANBAH

KITCHEN

VERANDAN

LIVING ROOM DINING ROOM

BED ROOM

BED ROOM

GED ROOM

BED ROOM

DINING ROOM LIVING ROOM

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LOBBY

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VERANDAH

VERAN DAN

LOBBY

VERANDAH

Plan of Type 1 building.

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