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(Below) Floor plans, with (right) plan of one of the apartments to a larger scale
Key to plans
1. Lock-up shops
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Entrance lobby
3. Lift
4. Yard
5. Scavenging lane
6. Lavatories
7. Showers
8. Corridors
9. Double rooms
10. Single rooms
11. Terraces
12. Stores
13. Waiting halls
14. Lobby
15. Living Dining room
16. Bedrooms
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17. Bathroom
18. Kitchen
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19. Servant's room
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extended across Percival Street. It is on the corner of this extension, where it meets Great George Street, that this interesting and notable new building is being erected.
A considerable number of buildings has been erected in Hong Kong since the last war; these include theatres and stadia for the entertainment and recreation of the public, hospitals and schools for their health and education, and commercial and industrial build- ings.
Much has also been done in the Colony to ease the shortage of housing accommodation-a problem that has been a common threat to all war-rid- den countries in the past few years.
Among schemes completed, under construction or projected are large blocks of apartments, which range from luxurious flats to modern work- ing-class tenements to suit people from almost all walks of life. For those desiring more individual accom- modation, housing schemes have been developed and many private houses have been erected.
However, in the whole of this vast programme of construction, a large and important section of the com- munity has not received as much attention as it deserves; this includes white-collar workers, students, tech- nicians and the like, who are single and with limited means. Student and Y.M.C.A. hostels are either too full to take any
more boarders or are too expensive for this type of person, with the consequence that members of this group usually have to resort to either ill-lighted, badly ventilated and overcrowded tenements or to cheap hotels and boarding houses, often of a questionable nature.
Bearing this fact in mind, the promoters of the scheme under review decided to put their ideals of providing suitable accommodation for this section of the population into reality by erecting a good-sized building to provide decent, healthy and inexpensive rooms for the above category. For the convenience of management, accommodation is re- stricted to one sex.
After a great deal of consideration, the site at Great George Street, almost opposite the Capitol Theatre. was finally chosen in view of its convenient location to schools and town offices and the ample transpor- tation facilities available.
The architect's model shows the Impressive facade of the nine-storey structure, now nearing completion. which has a total frontage along two streets of approximately 210 feet. The site is rectangular in shape, about 9,000 square feet in area, with a depth of about 150' 0" from north to south along the Lockhart Road frontage: the south boundary of the site is formed by Great George Street.
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