Government proposes to reclaim approx. provide urgently needed land for develop- Dr. the Hon. S. N. Chau opened the 17 acres of Crown foreshore and seabed mental purposes, and will enable Lai Chi new $750,000 Oxford English College at To Kwa Wan for use as an industrial Kok Road and Cheung Sha Wan Road to building at Monmouth Path, Wanchai. It site. The existing seawall will be extend- be extended to the Lai Chi Kok District is a six-storey with 20 modern classrooms ed from near the Kowloon City Ferry Pier to link with the main road to Castle Peak and up-to-date laboratories, as well as to To Kwa Wan Island, and thence and Tsun Wan.
administration offices and staff rooms. another seawall 800 ft. long will be laid to a point near the former Bailey Ship- sioner of Rating and Valuation said pri- tracy is to be built at the junction of In his report for 1957-58 the Commis- A new ten-storey Causeway Bay Magis- yard. Work should be finished in 1960. The island will no longer exist as such
building in Hongkong last year
King's Road and Hing Fat Street at the but its area is to be a public open space.
$182,239,211 record which brings the total for the edge of Victoria Park, Designed by Messrs. The decision to build a pedestrian sub- past eight years to over $1,000,000,000. Palmer & Turner, this will be the second way under Connaught Road Central, con- Expenditure was last year 53-5% in of four new magistracies to be built in the necting with the Star Ferry piers, was Kowloon, including New Kowloon. This Colony: the others being North Kowloon, announced by Government. A continuation brings Kowloon's share of the eight years' Western District, and Fan Ling. Con- of the existing covered way leading from expenditure to 46.3% compared with 45% struction will begin in October and the the ferries, it will take about six months the year before.
Magistracy should be in use in the spring of 1960.
to complete.
Aug. 18th
vate amounted to
to
another
The Lutheran Church of Hongkong is
build a $3,000,000 primary-middle Aug. 26 school on а hillside overlooking the Reaction in the press to Government's Chinese Y.M.C.A. in Waterloo Road. Con- subway decision ranged from strong sup- struction will start as soon as the plan is that in Macao a large number of private
approved.
The
port to just about equally forceful op- position in favour of an overhead crossing. been granted the Church by Government, 145,000 sq.ft. site has
The Far East Flying Training School also a $1,200,000 interest-free loan. expects to begin erection of its new hangar at Sung Wong Toi Road, Kowloon, some- time next week.
Aug. 22nd
The South China Morning Post reports
investors, following the Government's example, have decided to buid on re- claimed ground facing what is left of Praia Grande Bay. So much building is taking place there that it has led to a Mr. Ng Tor-tai, proprietor of the Hung
new high in civil construction, the journal Shing Construction Co., said that among says. No fewer than six large (for Macao) the 17,158 flats ΠΟΥ under construction buildings and a number of lesser struc- in the Colony 11,879 had already been tures are being put up there. Outstanding sold, and all the flats would be ready by is the Santa Casa Flats an ultra-modern next June. At the present rate of sale 13-storey block, for which a H.K. firm is of flats 1,100 per month
nothing at present at work on the foundations. much would remain by the end of the It is planned to reclaim over 84 acres year, he added. Mr. Ng said future cost of foreshore and seabed at Cheung Sha of building would be some 13% higher Wan between the Waterboat Dock and after the new building regulations came the line of Cheung Fat Street. This will into force.
Rediffusion (H.K.) Ltd. expects its new eight storey building in Gloucester Road to be finished by next spring, the firm's general consultant, Mr. F. S. Coote, said. Aug. 21st
Gorginol
The Hongkong Federation of Trade Unions has decided to build a Workers' Hall including an assembly hall, clubhouse, and reading and recreational rooms.
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