NEWS REVIEW
Technical school nearing completion
When the academic term starts again this September, a new technical government school, constructed at a cost of about HK$2.8 million, will be ready to admit young students for secondary studies.
The school is located at Lung Cheung Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and is the second in a series of five secondary technical schools planned at this stage to cope with the educational needs of fast- developing industrial and residential areas. The first
Lung Cheung Road Technical School under construction
of these five, at Hong Ning Road, Kwun Tong, was completed last year and has been in operation since then.
Another technical secondary school, the third to be set up, is located at Shek Lei, Kwai Chung, and is now under construction at an estimated cost of HK$3.4 million. It is expected that the school will enrol students for the new school term in September, 1971. Two other similar schools now in the planning stage will be built in Yau Tong and Chai Wan.
All these schools have 21 teaching classrooms, eleven specialist classrooms equipped to teach
science and technical subjects, a general-purpose classroom, an assembly hall cum gymnasium, a library, and administrative offices. Together, they will provide about 5,000 places for prospective technicians.
The new school at Lung Cheung Road, now nearing completion, is designed to serve the re- sidents of the heavily-populated areas of Wong Tai Sin, Chuk Yuen and Wang Tau Hom in North Kow- loon. It will provide places for about 1,000 stu- dents.
Kwai Chung to have new polyclinic
Residents of Kwai Chung and Tsuen Wan, two major industrial districts in Hong Kong, will have a new polyclinic by February next year. The new polyclinic, which will house a 24-bed maternity home, a minor operating theatre, a dispensary and general out-patient facilities, is being built below the Kwai Shing Estate.
In addition to the usual urban clinical facilities, the new polyclinic will have a separate chest clinic and X-ray section, housed in a separate two-storey block next to the three-storey main clinic.
Foundation work on the new polyclinic, the third Government clinic in the Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung area, has already been completed and the first two storeys are being built. The cost of the HK$2 million project is met by a donation from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club.
The standard clinic and the chest clinic are part of a larger scheme which will eventually provide for the addition of a new rehabilitation centre and a specialist section with facilities for various medi- cal services.
An artist's impression of the Kwai Chung Polyclinic
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Far East BUILDER, August 1971
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