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The dining room.

The verandah opening off the reception room.

ped kitchen, behind which is a utility room containing the service staircase. Also included in this wing are the air- servants' conditioning plant room,

and a covered service yard rooms giving access to the car park and to the covered way leading to the garage and servants' quarters.

From the entrance lobby a passage, itself, to which it is connected by pantry open wine and dry stores, a gives access to the powder room and French windows, and it can con- flower room and the large, well-equip- a sitting room in the east wing. The veniently be used to take up any sitting room has an unusual fireplace opposite the entrance; this has brick chimney breasts and a granite hearth and mantel stretching the entire width of the room. French windows lead to a verandah at the front of the building, stretching from the east end to the entrance porch which it joins; this verandah is completely covered and has a built-in seat at its east end.

The passage leading from the lobby to the sitting room has doors to the enclosed verandah at the back of the house. This verandah is almost two thirds the size of the reception room

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overflow of guests from that room during large functions. A large ter- race opens off both the back verandah and the reception room,

opposite which are steps leading down to the garden. Levels were carefully worked out so that when sitting on this ter- race an excellent view may be had of the harbour without any obstructions.

Adjoining the entrance lobby is the stair hall from which access may be had to the west wing, in which are located the men's cloakroom and the service rooms. At the end of the west passage is the pantry, with easy access to the dining room through double sliding doors. From the

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From the stairhall on the ground floor, a magnificent circular staircase leads up to the first floor; this stair- case, which has specially made rail- ings and fitted carpets, opens to the gallery overlooking the reception room. From the gallery two short flights of steps lead to passages on each side of it. In the east wing is the master bedroom suite, consisting of a large bedroom with a balcony, a' dressing room, two bathrooms, a closed verandah, a spare sitting room and plenty of closet space. In the west wing are three bedrooms, each with a separate bathroom and a large closet; the two bedrooms at the back of the house share a common balcony, but the two sections are separated by concrete louvers for privacy. Also contained in this wing are a combined drying room and store room, a large linen closet, a room for cleaning materials and equipment, a work room and an amah's room. The ser- vice rooms are separated from the bedrooms by a door in the west passage.

The separate servants' block, which is also two storeys high, contains a garage for three cars and the laundry, apart from the servants' rooms. The servants' block is connected to the main building by a covered way, which is supported by columns on its inside edge and by a wall on its out- side edge perforated at intervals by special tiles.

The car park, which lies between the west end of the building, the covered way and the

garage, is

enclosed at the front by a wall having sliding doors for access.

The main part of the house has a very attractive low pitched roof covered with green glazed tiles,