PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC WORKS
being reclaimed from the sea in a central position on the city of Victoria's waterfront. The preparatory tasks of dredging and dumping sand for the foundations to the seawalls, diverting cross harbour telephone lines and other underwater works have proceeded quietly since 1951, and this year the seawalls rose above water level. The area is being filled with dredged material dumped from special hopper barges and by the public dumping of debris and spoil from building sites. Depending upon the satisfactory delivery of pipes necessary for the diver- sion of the cross harbour water mains, the reclamation should be completed by the middle of 1954.
The reclamation of the old Causeway Bay typhoon shelter and the construction of a new typhoon shelter to replace the one reclaimed, proceeded satisfactorily and was completed by the end of the year. This area of 57 acres has been especially developed to provide playing fields and other public recreational facilities and should go far towards satisfying the requirements of the community in that part of the city.
A modern stadium is being built by Government at Soo- kunpoo to fill a need long felt in Hong Kong. This stadium has been designed to accommodate nearly 30,000 persons and is capable of expansion to a capacity of 65,000. Here, every advantage is being taken of the existing features of a valley which is almost a natural amphitheatre. The stadium's main use will be as a football ground, but the requirements of field athletics have not been overlooked and a first class running track is being provided.
The majority of new Government buildings, commenced or completed during 1953, were designed to meet the requirements of the Police, Education and Medical departments.
Those for the Police Department included a block of 369 flats for married personnel, two new Police Stations in the New Territories, and extensions to the Sham Shui Po Police Station,
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