ACCOMMODATION
72. Seven new Post Offices were opened as follows:
Mui Wo
Kennedy Town
on
10. 4.63
on
19. 4.63
Wong Tai Sin
on
22. 4.63
Beaconsfield House
on
17. 6.63
Gillies Avenue, Kowloon
on
1.11.63
Choi Hung Chuen
on
18.12.63
Tai Nan Street, Kowloon
on
29. 2.64
Training School
73. Better facilities for the Postal Training School were obtained in accommodation in the old Naval Dockyard at Kowloon. Reference to this has been made in paragraph 24 of this report under the heading of 'STAFF'.
$74.
Detailed planning of twelve more Post Offices was carried out and by the end of the year construction of four of these was well advanced. Two in fact had been opened at the time of the writing of this report, these being at Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon, and San Tin in the New Terri- tories.
75. Good progress was made during the year towards completion of the three major building projects as follows:
(a) Kowloon Central Post Office
In addition to the main Kowloon Post Office, the building will accommodate the administrative offices for Kowloon and the New Territories, and the Postal Training School. Site formation was completed at the end of the year, and contracts signed for construction of the building.
(b) New General Post Office
Preliminary planning for the new General Post Office on the central reclamation was carried out as far as was possible. In order to provide much needed additional space until such time as the new office is constructed approval was given for the transfer of a hangar from Kai Tak airport to the reclamation. This will make available an additional 8,000 square feet of working space. Special mail handling equipment was ordered, to run from the new Post Office mail lighter berths to the hangar and additional equipment will be ordered to extend into the new General Post Office when this becomes necessary.
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