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Government Buildings were rewired. Twenty-five telephones were installed, improvements and additions were carried out in six buildings in Hong Kong, five in Kowloon and two in New Territories.
31. The laying of two submarine cables and buried land cable work was completed.
BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE.
32. The volume of the new building works coming under the jurisdiction of the Buildings Ordinance, 1935 shewed a small increase in comparison with the figures for 1935.
33. Alterations and additions to existing buildings comprised a very large proportion of the work carried out. There was a decrease in the number of plans for new European houses but an increase in those of Chinese tenement type. Many buildings of a social character such as Churches and Schools were under construction during the year. (See Table XVI).
34. Plans were approved for the following more important works:—
- One block of eighteen European flats at junction of Plantation and Plunkett Roads;
- European house, Stanley Beach Road;
- Convent, Stanley;
- European house, Stanley;
- Pentecostal Church for Chinese, Castle Road;
- twelve Chinese houses, Hill Road;
- fourteen Chinese houses, Gloucester Road;
- eighteen Chinese houses, Stewart Road;
- twenty-eight Chinese houses, Tonnochy Road;
- New Cold Storage Building for Dairy Farm, Great George Street;
- ten Chinese houses, Hennessy Road;
- office block, 9 Queen’s Road Central;
- office block, 10 Queen’s Road Central;
- New Christian Church for Chinese, Tai Hang Road;
- school for Chinese, to accommodate one hundred and twenty boarders, ten teachers and two hundred and thirty day scholars, Hau Pui Loong;
- foundations for 100 ton crane, Kowloon Dock;
- Chinese Roman Catholic Chapel and Quarters, Kak Hang Tsun Road;
- Christian Church for Chinese, Ma Tau Chung Road;
- block of European flats sixteen storeys high, Nathan Road;
- Anglican Church, Waterloo Road;
- block of four Chinese houses, Austin Road;
- Private Hospital, Kiu Kiang Street;
- block of ten Chinese houses, Lai Chi Kok Road;
- block of four European houses, Nathan Road;
- block of five Chinese houses, Reclamation Street;
- extension to Weaving Factory, Un Chau Street.
35. Buildings of importance completed were:—
- European house, Tai Hang Road;
- large school for Chinese boys, to accommodate eighty boarders and three hundred and eighty day scholars, Third Street;
- large residence, Bonham Road;
- thirteen Chinese houses, Gloucester Road;
- twelve Chinese houses, Hennessy Road; ten Chinese houses, Heard Street;
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- six Chinese houses, Lockhart Road;
- new residential quarters at French Convent;
- new banks and offices (Marina House) 15 to 19 Queen’s Road Central;
- Lower Peak Tram Station and flats, Garden Road;
- new Methodist Church, Hennessy Road;
- Central British School, off Argyle Street;
- extension to St. Mary’s School, Austin Road;
- engineering workshop for China Light and Power Company, Tai Wan Road;
- block of four Chinese houses, Austin Road;
- block of six Chinese houses, Lai Chi Kok Road;
- block of ten Chinese houses, Lai Chi Kok Road;
- large Chinese residential Hotel, Nathan Road;
- six houses, European type flats, Nathan Road;
- four houses, European type flats, Peiho Street;
- fourteen Chinese houses, Shanghai Street;
- Public Dispensary, Yee Kuk Street.
36. Occupation permits were issued for 167 Chinese tenement houses, of these eighty-eight were erected in Kowloon and seventy-nine on the Island. Occupation permits issued for seventy-seven European type houses of these fifty were erected in Kowloon and twenty-seven in Hong Kong.
37. A comparative statement of the number and type of buildings in respect of which plans were deposited, is given in Table XIV. Table XVII shews by graph the number of domestic buildings completed annually since 1905.
38. The number of water flushed sanitary installations approved amounted to 2,078.
39. Twelve fires were reported, none resulting in loss of life, this immunity being traceable very largely to the protection afforded by buildings of reinforced concrete construction and to the improved form of staircase now called for.
40. Twelve collapses were reported, eight of which occurred as a result of the severe typhoon experienced in the month of August. There were three deaths and ten people were injured as the result of the typhoon collapses and eight persons were killed and seven injured when defective timbers caused the collapse of Nos. 2 to 8 Woo Sung Street. The total casualties for the year numbered twelve killed and eighteen injured.
41. Reclamation by private enterprise of the remaining area of approximate 18,000 square feet of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 97 was completed.
42. There was only one minor landslip reported which affected private property.
43. The Chinese Cemeteries in Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon were maintained in good order and provision was made for additional burial areas where required. The new area known as New Kowloon Cemetery No. 7, Customs Pass is being developed.
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