PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC WORKS
28,500 spectators is being provided on terraces cut out of the sides of the hills and only the western side of the stadium will be covered. This section will accom- modate radio and Rediffusion commentators' boxes and a Police Control box. At the open end of the valley a modern pavilion complete with changing rooms and administrative offices is being built. A dam will be built on the small stream which flows through the valley to provide a water supply for cleaning, watering and sanitation. The whole site, which will include adequate car parks, covers more than sixteen acres.
The new Queen's Pier came into use in the middle. of the year. It is 200 feet long and 80 feet wide and made of reinforced concrete. Five sets of landing steps are provided each capable of taking large launches. Another pier of similar design was under construction at Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side of the harbour and marks the first phase of a scheme to provide large and modern ferry piers to accommodate one of the world's busiest ferry services. The new Kowloon terminal of the ferry service will absorb the existing Kowloon Public Pier at Tsim Sha Tsui and a new public pier, clear of the proposed terminal, has therefore to be built before work on the main scheme can commence. This is now in course of construction. The terminal on Hong Kong Island will be on the frontage of the new central reclamation mentioned earlier.
The construction of another passenger ferry pier was begun in October at Ma Tau Kok in Kowloon and this pier will replace the old Kowloon City Ferry Pier which, before the war, was the terminal of a ferry service running from the City of Victoria to Kowloon City.
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