No_5_1956 — Page 29

1st January

BUILDING INDUSTRY DIARY

SUMMARY OF EVENTS

An eight-storey block with an arcade of shops, eventually to be increased to four- teen storeys, will take the place of two three-storey houses at No. 86 and 88 Nathan Road if the Tenancy Tribunal application is successful. The architect is Mr. Chan Leung-chi. 3rd January

Some problems of technical education in Hong Kong were dealt with in a talk given by Mr. S.J.G. Burt, Principal of the Hong Kong Technical College, at the weekly luncheon of Kowloon Rotary Club at the Peninsula Hotel.

5th January

A new health centre, which will be known as the Government Health Centre, is to be built by Government in the Shek Kip Mei district of Kowloon.

6th January

The cornerstone of the new three-storey- ed Holy Spirit Seminary in Tai Koo Lao was laid by Roman Catholic Bishop Lawrence Bianchi.

9th January

His Excellency the Governor unveiled a commemorative plaque at the entrance

lobby of the new Colonial Secretariat Building today, and the Legislative Coun- cil will convene for the first time in the new Council Chambers.

10th January

JANUARY TO MARCH 1957.

present Tung Wah Hospital at Po Yan He said the Directors had offered a por- Street, are being raised.

tion of the 15/17 Peak Road property to the Mid-Level School Building Fund. 14th February

7th March

Land

In the final accounts for 1956, at a meeting of the Directors of The Hongkong Investment & Agency Co., Ltd., provision has been made for the revalua- tion of the Company's holdings of land in the Central District of Hong Kong, with the result that these values have been written up by $44,337,000 and an equal amount has been added to Capital Reserves. 15th February

Mr. W. J. Skinner, Senior Quantity Surveyor, Public Works Department was given a presentation by his colleagues in the Architectural Office, on the eve of his departure on leave prior to retirement.

To celebrate its Centenary in 1960, the Diocesan Girls' School, one of the Colony's oldest as well as one of its leading girls' schools, is planning to erect a new seven- storey building which will accommodate 240 extra girls.

At a Kaifong Association function today, Mr. K. Keen, Social Welfare Officer, said that there was evident a tendency for the centre of the city to shift eastward, and he thought it most probable that the district surrounding Victoria Park would be the heart of Hong Kong in a few years. 16th February

The Rt. Rev. R.O. Hall, Bishop of Hong Kong, yesterday opened the new

Lady Patricia Lennox-Boyd, wife of the Secretary of State for Colonies, officiated at the inauguration ceremony of the Tai Lam Chung reservoir project today at Tsun Wan in the presence of a large num- ber of distinguished guests who included members of the Executive and Legislative Council, Government officials, and munity leaders of the New Territories. 10 March

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Dr. The Hon. S.N. Chau, today laid the foundation stone of the Fung Kai Middle School building at Sheung Shui, raised in commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the Fung Kai Public School, and when completed will be called "The Quarter Century Anniversary School House". 14th March

Tribunal

recommended

The Tenancy that the building at 20 Des Voeux Road, Central, known as Tak Shing House, be exempted from the Landlords & Tenants Ordinance to make way for a 16-storey building to cost $4,000,000.

At the Annual General Meeting of the Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., it was disclosed that the Company had made a net profit of over $4,000,000 for the year ending 31st December, 1956; this in spite

ed prices for raw materials and severe Chinese and Japanese competition. 15th March

Road near the Four Milestone, was opened

The new Carlton Hotel, just off Taipo extension of the Workers' Children School of the steady rise in freight rates, increas- by Mr. Lam Chi-fung. 17th January

In the progress report of the Registrar of Co-operatives, it was noted that the record number of 28 co-operative societies were registered during the last quarter of 1956, of which 26 were co-operative build- ing societies with individual memberships ranging from ten to forty pensionable civil

servants.

Traffic problems in the Central district and road planning were discussed at a meeting of the Engineering Society of Hong Kong at the European Y.M.C.A. 21st January

The Parent-Teachers' Association was informed that plans are being considered for the building of another school for children living on the Peak. 22nd January

His Excellency the Governor received from the President of the Chinese Manu- facturers' Union a cheque for $500,000, being the balance of the C.M.U. pledge to contribute one million dollars toward the building fund of the C.M.U. School of Industries of the Technical College. 31st January

Another modern primary school with facilities for co-education, is to be built by Government at Fuk Wing Street, in the Shamshuipo district of Kowloon. 3rd February

in Nairn Road, Kowloon. 22nd February

An area of land in the Chu Yuen district in Diamond Hill is to be resumed in a month's time by the Crown for the build- ing of resettlement flats, the Gazette noti- fied today.

Mr. K. B. Allport, when addressing the members of the Lions Club at luncheon, called for the creation of a comprehensive Town

that Planning Ordinance

would allow for acquisition by Government of slum tenements for redevelopment by the Housing Authority. 24 February

One hundred and twenty patients at the Mental Hospital, High Street, were trans-

in а six-car ferred

convoy to the new Castle Peak Hospital. 1st March

It was disclosed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. H.D.M. Barton, that the Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd. intends to proceed with the redevelopment of the King's, York and Union Building sites, in the heart of the Central District, immediately after the completion of the new 16-storey Jardine House at the corner of Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road Central.

Finance Co., Ltd., Mr. E.R. Childe, dis

The Chairman of Humphreys Estate &

closed in the annual report released today, a plan to build a primary school in the Funds for constructing а ten-storey mid-levels. It would be гит by the building to replace an old wing of the Government Department of Education.

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The Hon. B.C.K. Hawkins, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, formally opened the new $190,000 four-storey dormitory and nursery wing at the Po Leung Kuk. 18th March

His Excellency the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, laid the foundation stone for two new wings of the Tung Wah Hospital, which will be ten-storey build- ings containing a total of 202 beds.

24th March

The Hong Kong Housing Society an- nounced that it had secured approval for the construction of another 616 flats, while plans for a further 408 flats have been submitted to the Buildings Ordinance Office.

25th March

In an Extraordinary Meeting held after the Annual General Meeting of the Hong Kong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd., the Authorised Capital was increased to $100,000,000.

29th March

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In an editorial, the South China Morning Post urges the decentralization quoted the Acting Director, the Hon. J. of the Public Works Department.

Forbes, who had stated that shortage of professional staff was a serious handicap, and voiced the opinion that the Depart- ment had grown too large.