Hong Kong Building Industry Diary
2nd January 1954
to see lorries fill up the reclamation Chinese Affairs, the Hon. R.R. Todd. The new Mongkok agency of The area by Connaught Road, as this was The school has six classrooms with Hongkong and Shanghai Banking a heaven-sent opportunity to erect accommodation for 240 children. Corporation was opened by Mrs. on that area an underground car Turner. wife of the Chief Manager, park. the Hon. Michael W. Turner.
3rd January 1954
Demolition work on the old Hotel Cecil and Chung Tin Building was started to make way for the second portion of Alexandra House.
4th January 1954
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The new subsidised Toi School, situated near the police station at Kam Tin, New Territories. was formally opened by the Director of Education. the Hon. D.J.S. Crozier. 6th January 1954
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It was announced by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Mr. George W. Grey, well known that they were building forty_flats architect, who was a resident of the for their Chinese employees off Green Colony for many years, died sudden- Lane. Blue Pool Road. ly in his room
The flats in the Gloucester were designed by Mr. Eric Cumine. Building. He was 76, and is survived by his wife. The late Mr. Grey was 12th February 1954 a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surve- Vors, a Member of the Institute of Structural Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Arbitrators, a Member of the Royal Sanitary Institute and an Associate Member of the Town Plan- ning Institute.
A spacious building, erected provide additional recreational facili- ties and social amenities for the em- ployees of the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Adminis- tration was formally opened by the Hon. R.B. Black, the Colonial Secre- tary.
The inquest on a coolie who was
Mr. Fung Hon-chiu, Chairman of one of the many who died in the Mr. Grey's early work was in Lon- the Board of Directors of Tung Wah Wuhu Street building collapse in don: he came to Hong Kong in 1924 Group of Hospitals, announced plans Kowloon last September ended to- to join the Hongkong Realty and to build a modern four-storey build- day. The Jury returned a verdict Trust Company. It was soon after ing to replace the present old struc- that the coolle died as a direct result this that he founded the Hongkong ture housing their First Free School of the collapse of the building, and and China Branch of the Royal in Shantung Street, Mongkok. in a rider expressed the opinion that Institute of Chartered Surveyors, of the collapse was due to "defective which he was the first Chairman 18th February 1954 construction resulting from the and has been Chairman twice since. The Directors of the Hongkong manner in which the concrete mix- In 1927, he returned to London for Land Investment and Agency Co. ture was produced."
three years; he returned to Hong Ltd., decided to recommend a final Kong in 1932. joining the Hongkong dividend for 1953 of $2 per share, Land Investment and Agency Co.. less tax. making a total of $4 per The new headquarters of the Kow- Ltd., leaving them in 1947 to start share, less tax, for the year. loon Local Association of the Boy his own private practice. Scouts was formally opened by Mr.
In presenting the annual report of P.Y. Wong, President of the Kowloon
Mr. Grey served in the South the Vibro Piling Company Ltd., at Rotary Club. when he unfurled the African War and the First World the 19th ordinary yearly meeting. district flag atop the mast.
The War.
In 1941. being in the Volun- Major S.M. Churn, who presided, an- Kowloon Rotary Club had contribut- teers. he was interned in Argyle nounced a net profit of $167,862.64 ed half the cost of construction.
Street and Shumshuipo camps.
after making full provision for all charges, including depreciation, 16th January 1954
28th January 1954
Directors fees and Corporation Pro- fits Tax. A dividend of $1 and a bonus of 20 cents per share declared.
Three workmen engaged in de- molishing Chung Tin Building. In the heart of the Central District of Hong Kong, were killed when a sec- tion of the top floor of the premises collapsed shortly after 5 p.m.
20th January 1954
A presentation ceremony was held on the occasion of the retirement of Mr. A. Spary, Class 1 Electrical In- spector, after 30 years' service with Government.
23rd January 1954
An extension to the premises of the Craigengower Cricket Club was opened by Mr. R. Basa, the oldest member of the Club as well as one of its founders and former President.
26th January 1954
The Hon. T.L. Bowring, O.B.E., Director of Public Works, laid the first shovelful of concrete in the foundation for the first block of houses to be erected for the Shek Kip Mei fire victims.
The new Macao Government Print- ing Press was opened in the presence of H.E. the Governor, Rear-Admiral J.M. Esparteiro, the symbolic cutting of the ribbon being performed by Mme. Esparteiro.
1st February 1954
A third cinema was added to the growing North Point district with the official opening of the Metropole Theatre in King's Road, opposite the tram terminus. The ten-storey building, erected at a cost of $2,000,- 000, contains a restaurant on the first floor, with apartments on all the upper floors. The cinema has a seating capacity of 960. 2nd February 1954
A scheme was announced by the International Economic Development Co. (H.K.), Ltd.. for the construction of 600 flats in 15 buildings of five storeys each. The site for the pro- ject is the land between Lai Chi Kok Road and Prince Edward Road at Tai Kok Tsui, and it is intended that the accommodation will be for white- collar workers.
At the General Meeting of the Hongkong Automobile Association. Mr. F.D. Hammond. President of the 8th February 1954 out-going committee sald in his Aplichau Kaifong School was offi- report that it was a disappointment cially opened by the Secretary for
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The new Stanley Village C.M.S. School was opened by the Hon. T.N. Chau, President of the Old Boys Stanley, five years after the idea of Association of St. Stephen's College. it had first originated. It was de- dicated by Bishop R.O. Hall. 23rd February 1954
It was learned that the Wing On Life Assurance Co. Ltd., plan to re- place the present Majestic Building at 24 Des Voeux Road, Central, by a modern 14-storey building at a cost of about $2,400,000, excluding the value of the land, which is worth about one million dollars. 23rd February 1954
The Rev. Sterling H. Whitener, Secretary of the Hongkong Advisory Committee of the Church World Ser- vice. stated that the American organisation has donated a total of US$22,000 towards the relief of the Shumshuipo fire victims. The money will be used to build 80 concrete housing units, similar to those al- ready erected by the organisation at Homuntin.
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