Interocean House, North Point [1958-????]

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 00:57
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed

Located at 191 Java Road, North Point. 

Source: Source: Royal Interocean Lines Post Vol. V. No. 9. July 1958 page 98

Later place(s) at this location
K. Wah Centre, North Point [1991- ]

Photos that show this Place

1959 Royal Interocean Lines' Interocean House
1959
1967
1960 Kai Tak Runway
1960s
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Comments

Updated:

More information here from 1971. In this publication the headquarter building is shown on page 5.

In 1991, K.Wah Centre opened at the same place.

When Interocean House was built, the company, Royal Interocean Lines, had a special safe built into the wall of the building which contained: various papers of the company, schedules, employee lists and the house magazine called RIL Post.

I have been trying to find out what happened with that safe after the building was demolished.

The K. Wah Group purchased  RIL's building, but unfortunately all my emails to K. Wah remain unanswered.

Does anyone know??  The address was 191 Java Road, North Point.

There was a story in the 1960s that one of the RIL staff took advantage of a long public holiday, CNY or Easter?  toenter the building where, as he had access to the safe, he emptied the safe of its cash contents and fled immediately to Brazil. The theft was only discoveed three or four days later when the staff retuened to work. I could not comment on the vracity of the story but that is how it was told at the time.

BHUI25044 thank you for your story, but that safe was an ordinary safe for keeping cash.

The safe or box which was built into a wall when the building was completed, is the safe I am loooking for. Surely when the building was demolished, they must have spotted that safe and opened it.  I also wonder why K.Wah do not reply to my emails; perhaps their staff nowadays has no idea what we are talking about.  I still hope that someone will remember.