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ments for new markets.

The new market is of straightfor- ward reinforced concrete construc- tion and has four floors, with pro- vision made in the design for the addition of three more floors when- ever a decision is made to go ahead with the extension.

The ground and first floors are given up to the market proper. On the second floor is a canteen for the use of stallholders in the market below, six small married quarters for employees of the Urban Services Department, and an office.

On the fourth floor are three fair- ly large barrack rooms, again for Urban Services Department em- ployees, a dining hall, bathrooms and lavatories. On the roof is a laundry shelter.

The market is set between the straight road of Jardine's Bazaar and the curving road of Jardine's Crescent. Entrances are provided in both roads. Main feature of the ground floor is the two ranges of stalls for selling fish, 21 in number. set parallel to the outer walls and with the service passage behind. In the central portion of this floor are pitches for hawkers with lanes be- tween them for the passage

customers.

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Close to the entrance from Jar- dine's Bazaar is space for refuse trailers and a hawker control store.

At the corner of the junction between Jardine's Bazaar and Jar- dine's Crescent, but actually in the Crescent, is a special entrance for meat vans giving access to a hoist to the first floor where the stalls for the sale of meat are placed.

Planning of this first floor is similar to that of the ground floor, except that the meat stalls, again with service passages, are set around three walls instead of against two walls. Along one wall are eleven stalls for the sale of pork, six for the sale of poultry, and five for the sale of beef.

The central portion again is re served for pitches for hawkers, with passages for customers between them.

All interior walls and counters are finished in rubbed grano which is easily and quickly washed clean. Floors are of trowelled grano.

Access from the ground floor to the first floor is by means of three separate staircases.

Main contractor for the market was the Fook Kee Company.

UPPER ROOF

BBB-ZE

DINING

OPENINGS

ME

LAUNDRY

SHELTER

ROOF LEV.

BARRACK

3RD. FL. LEV.

ORENINGS

QUARTER$

QUARTERS

FISH

STALLS

BEEF

STALLS

HD

2ND. FL., LEV

IST. FL., LEV.

FISH

STALLS

GRD., FL., LEV

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