July 2nd
HONG KONG BUILDING INDUSTRY DIARY
The H.K. University has received
an
JULY-AUGUST, 1958
sion by the architects, Messrs. Chau & thoroughfare in front of the new Airport Lee, reveals a clubhouse executed in Terminal Building at Kai Tak for the use
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allocation of £200,000 from the Colonial Chinese architectural style surrounded by of air travellers. It will eventually be-
courts, swimming pool, tennis Development and Welfare authorities with
boat come part of the traffic artery linking which it is planned to build a new library anchorages etc.
Kowloon City with the Kun Tong indus- with space for 100,000 books. The site
trial area. decided on is immediately south of the University main hall. Plans and working drawings of the proposed building will be
submitted to the C.D. & W. July 4th
to
Nine resettlement blocks, each seven storeys high, will be built in the Jordan Valley at Ngau Chi Wan, Kowloon. They will comprise nearly 3,000 domestic units accommodate about 16,500 people. Also to be built in the same location is flatted factory with 275 a five-storey working units each of 200 square feet. Site formation is in progress and actual construction is expected to begin towards the end of the year.
Tenders are called for the demolition of four Shek Kip Mei resettlement blocks and clearance of the site to make way for a new Government five-storey primary school. This will have 24 classrooms and three practical rooms, and will take 1,080 pupils in each of two daily sessions.
July 14th
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Aug. 6th
H. E. the Governor, Sir Robert Black, laid the foundation stone of the new
New school buildings and extensions storey Kwong Wah Hospital which will completed during the April-June period be built on the site of the present Kwong this year provide accommodation for over Wah Hospital in Kowloon. Construction
4,500 primary school pupils the Acting is estimated to take 42 months.
Director of Education, Mr. L. G. Morgan, announced.
The China Motor Bus. Co. bought 20,000 sq.ft. of Crown Land at North Point between King's Road and Java Road at upset price of $800,000.
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Aug. 8th The land is to The Resettlement Ordinance 1958 be used for parking purposes.
The build. 16 of 1958) was brought into force by ing covenant calls for $600,000 within 24 proclamation in the Government Gazette. It consolidates existing legislation and months, and use of the lot is restricted to mechanical transport services and petrol regulations thereunder in order to simplify filling stations.
resettlement procedure.
July 16th
The Housing Authority's North Point Estate reported that all 1,955 of its flats had been let, along with 28 out of the 71 shops.
July 18th
Government is to spend $6,932,072-74 on construction of an aircraft parking The tender went to apron at Kai Tak. Paul Y. Construction Company.
Aug. 11th
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Kowloon Inland Lot No. 7507 at Chatham Two modern fire stations were officially Road, Kowloon, was up for auction at an It contained Work will begin about September on a opened at Tsun Wan and Yuen Long. upset price of $9,450,000. public pier at Three Fathoms Cove, east They cost about $1,000,000 to build and about 690,000 sq.ft. and was restricted to of Tolo Harbour. It will be used by small equip. Both are
non-industrial purposes
with of the three-bay type
only, covenant of not less than craft and the H.K. & Yaumati Ferry housed in four-storey reinforced concrete building Company's boats. The new pier (which buildings. Plans are in hand for another
The lot was withdrawn for $20,000,000. will serve 14 villages) will be of reinforced station at San Hui, between Castle Peak lack of bidding. concrete, 10 ft. wide extending 120 ft. and Ping Shan. seaward. The pierhead, also of reinforced concrete, will be 80 ft. long by 30 ft. wide. Construction will take seven months.
July 7th
Mrs. C. J. Symons, headmistress of the Diocesan Girls' School, held a press con- ference to explain the need for another $200,000 for the School's Centenary build- ing project. There will be 1,000 girls studying in the school next year when the Centenary expansion is complete. Mrs. Symons said the 1913 building had been demolished and the 1940 and 1950 blocks remained. The main block, adjoining Gascoigne Road will be eight storeys high. Final phase of work on the new Star Ferry piers at Tsim Sha Tsui gets under way this week. In addition to completion of the covered ways from the piers to the ferry concourse the
passenger and vehicle terminus is to be entirely recon- structed.
July 10th
announces
com-
Aug. 12th
A report from Macao
Construction on the first stage of the pletion of the second phase of the new $4 new Chai Wan Resettlement Estate is million (patacas) Count of St. Januario expected to start in the next few days. Central Hospital with about 300 beds. Building work, to be done by Cheong The third phase now in course of erection Lee construction Co., will cost about will be ready some time next year.
This $2,245,815. is the most modern hospital in Portuguese
Overseas territories.
July 18th
Aug. 13th
H.E. the Governor, Sir Robert Black, visited the Housing Authority's estates in Cadogan Street, West Point,
and Java Road, North Point. He was accompanied by the Hon. C.G.M. Morrison, Chairman of the H.A., and Mr. G.T. Rowe, Housing Commissioner.
Government has published a draft plan, for the long term redevelopment of Tai prepared by the Town Planning Board, Hang Village, Causeway Bay. It shows four main plots reserved for new building. surrounded by 60-ft. wide streets, with provision for a school, market, open space Aug. 14th and playground. Total area involved is about 6 acres.
Permission for another 20 multi-storey buildings on H.K. Island and Kowloon to build a new Peninsula has been given by the Building
Authority.
Aug. 15th
Government proposes ferry pier on Cheung Chau Island and to realign the praya wall by reclaiming a portion of the crown foreshore and seabed fronting Hoi Pong St. The new pier, of
The new Government primary school reinforced concrete, will have a 42 ft. being built at Cheung Hong Street (near frontage and extend about 143 feet into Fortress Hill) on a North Point hillside
novel feature It will be about 50 ft. north of will have a the existing pier which will later be
Prominent Chinese citizens, anxious to establish a country club, are reported the sea. negotiating with Government for the grant of land at Brick Hill near Aberdeen and demolished. in the suburbs of Kowloon (where it is hoped a nine-hole golf course can be laid
an under-
ground as well as a rooftop playground. Work is expected to begin in mid- September and take four to five months. Work will begin shortly on reconstruc- The completed school will accommodate out.) Site formation and building may tion of a 3,000 ft. stretch of Clearwater more than 2,000 students in two sessions. begin this autumn. A published impres- Bay Road, mainly to provide a convenient (Tenders called.)
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