Items regarded as urgent and which were included comprise Central Station and Headquarters: $200 for a rectifier for the, Automatic "Telephone Exchange; $2,000 for asphalt-sheet tooling ior She indian and Chic nese Quarters which are being damaged by water leakage; $1,300 to connect the Central Registry office to the Indian Quarters and to erect a partition; $1,000 for alteration to rooms and lavatory in the Special Branch Headquarters; $1,000 for removal of a gasoline pump, which Creates congestion in Central Station compound, to Chengtu Road Station.
Bubbling Well Station: $4,200 to erect a timber building for canteen and re-Creation room; $1,500 for conversion of the canteen into an armoury and the armoury into an office (necessary to accommodate additional personnel); $1,700 to erect a shelter for beggars.
Gordon Road Station: $1.50 to cover the strengthening of the Gymnasium for use as Sikhs' Ration Store and supply of window-grilles; $2,000 (balance of cost) for an additional floor to the Store Block; $4,000 for reconstruction of the verandahs and floors of the Reserve Unit blocks; and $1,500 for reconstruction of floors in the old Store Block, essential on account of dilapidation.
Sinza Station: $2,500 for the erection of a Chinese dining room kitchen, necessary to relieve congestion. An old Rifle Range hut will be used. $2500 for a beggars' shelter. $1200 for waterproofing boiler room and lavatories in who Sikhs and Chinese Quarters.
Louza Station: $20,000 for an extension 10 the Detective on the first floor, Work at this Station has increased some 78 per cent. and the extension is not only necessary but essential to efficiency.
Carter Road Quarters: $2.00 balances of cost for built-up "roofing. tion of $13,800 will be to a sum Specials Headquarters: An appropria-sufficient to purchase an adequate number of new stoves to beat the premises effectively. The present stoves were previously used in the former Town Hall on Nanking Road and are now inadequate and uneconomic.
Jai: $2300 for a turbine furnace patent fire grate for the Kitchen and Laundry Block: $3,000 for waterproof cement surfacing of a cell block.
In addition an appropriation of $4,700 for urgent minor works was approved, Plant and Equipment—On the grounds of economy, the Police requirements under this heading had been restricted to a single sum of $18,810 for the purchase of necessary traffic control gear, which was approved,
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