Construction of New Public Buildings Involving Expenditure of Tls. 10,000,000 in Progress A building programme with, a exat of Tls. 10,000,000 is being carried out by the Shanghai Muni cipal Council at present as a resul} of the demand. for more public Uuildings caused by Shanghai's ex mansion. Building by the Councit has been carried out. steadily for years, but now there is much more of it than ever before, Much of the present programme well in hand, but some items have only just entered the preliminary stage, and the scheme at present considered will take two or three years to complete, by which time further appropriations will be made for constructions not in urgent demand, There are also. some buildings which it is not convenient to put up yet, such as the new Central Police Station and the Centra] Fire Station, 'These are only at present in the eketeh stage, and. nothing can be done about them' for the ime being owing to cramped con tions in the administration bu'lding block, A large part of the plans deals with accommodation for police and fire brigade, One of the newest items to appear on the list of necessary' buildings is that of incinerators. 'Arrangements have already been boroughly considered for importing suitable machinery, and the necessary accommodation is now being planned. 'This will account for roughly one of the eight and' half million taels the expenditure of which is immediately in view.
Apart from Central Station, the re-building of which is not on the immediate programme, there are several buildings and additions that are definitely in hand. Point Station has reached the stage where working. drawings have deen approved: this. station will go. up on the corner of Pinglang and Glen Roads, on part of the here' the British troops had that excellent playing" ileld "The Oval" The barracks for: Chinese police attached to this station have reached the same stage, as has the magazine for the ighai_'Volunteer Corps which will be situated at the same place.
The new Yangtszepoo Station, which will be erected: on the unused part of the site on which the Reserve Unit headquarters wan teuilt, is im the stages of contracts having been let, The extension to Bubbling Well Police Station has jest passed this stage, and work now in hand, The quarters for the Japanese Police at Hongkew Station are in.an advanced stage, the fourth floor having already licen reached.
The new South Police Station is: merely in the embryo stage, but to be considered thoroughly: short! This station will be situated in Chengiu Road, and will rel Sinza Station of a great, deal of worry, as at present Sinza's section of territory is very wide and. it takes some time to reach sts limits, 'The barracks for Chinese police at West Hongkew Station are on the Feoks, but they are in the same stage' of not having actually been tackled as yet. Working drawings have been approved for <similar barracks at Wayside Station, Working drawings have been approved for the foreign quarters planned in Carter Road, while piles have been ordered for the founda tion work of the Police Hospital to be erected on the front portion of the Ward Road Gaol property.
'A. cell block and a_workshop block at Ward Road Gaol have reached the third floor already, but extensions to the laundry and Witehth and to the gaol hospital have jonly reached the contract stage. The sketch scheme for the foreign and juvenile blocks has been submitted, while working drawings have been submitted for the administration. block, as for the Well Station machines seme time to reach, 'At Bubbling Well Station the extension to. the officers' quarters, token in hand some time ago, has reached the level of the stoond floor and is progressing well.
From the. health side of the Councils activities there has also come a calf for more accommodation, particularly as regards the new. Vietorin Nurses' Home. This is as yet only in the second stage of its) progress, a. sketch scheme having been submitted and approved, Other health works are the provision of a new laundry. Bock ta the T.B, Hospital on Hungizo Road, anda branch health. office in the Central District. The. location for: this has not yet, been decided, snd in consequence no: sketches have yet been. attempted.
Working drawings have been sobmitied for the hostel to be run. in. conjunction with the Publi and' Thomas Hanbury: Schook for Boys, this hostel to- be situated close, to the school building om North Sze chuen Road, The Hoste for Girls! school is as yot only in the. sketch stage, as it la to be. erected. on the site of part of the 'Victoria, Nursing. Home, which is not yet available, as. the home ix, being used as a' temporary hostel for the Public and Thomas Han-Lay School for Boys.
Foundations have been laid for she extension for the Elis Kadoorie Public School far Bays. New. District Primary Schools. for Chin~ coo are being arranged, sleigh fsebemes having been prepared for (Gyo, one in, the eastern. district on the site of the Nich Chih Rwei School and. the other in the weath district. in Sinza Road, Other plans call for two Public Works Department Depots, one. in Wuchow Road and the other in Gordon Road. Work has not yet started on the former, while the latter has already achieved a ground floor. Fourteen: public Iutrines te be constructed in various hroughont the Settlement, and 00 tracts for these Krave: been let, The Foochow Rand Market practically. finished, and' has been in use for some time. Work on the various shops which are included in the market is mat yet complete, however, but this should not take long.
An abattoir and an extension to the pig slaughter- house at Washing Road are also amongst the plans which are in an advanced stage.
This programme has entailed a great deal of work of the of Gf the Public Works Department concerned, and will entail a great deal fore before it is complete, The system in force calls for many separate steps before any buildings sre pat up. Commencing with the necessary appropriations, from the Finance Department, first a sketch scheme is prepared. Then it in submitted for approval, which may not necessarily immediately, alterations may be called for several times, Next, with a definite design in view, we are prepared. ' These de submitted: for appro the construction engineer submit their drawings.
With all this complete: and finally approved, tenders are advertised: public, and these all have to. considered carefully. Piles, for foundations axe then ordered and the contract let, and with this the actual. building commences. Further ccamplications occur when it realized that there a number of fittings, often of special appliances for various purposes that also have to be purchased.
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