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reclamation available, it was necessary to scrap the present Colony refuse dump, hitherto located here, and find another place for city refuse disposal. The site chosen is in Gin Drinkers' Bay, off the village of Ha Kwai Chung, in the New Territories. In view of a fairly swift current in the area, a rubble mound 1,550 feet long has been built connecting the mainland with the small offshore Pillar Island. This wall prevents the displacement of refuse after it has been dumped from barges.
Many new government buildings were started or com- pleted during this year. A 24-classroom co-educational secondary school was finished in Kowloon, and a primary school in Pokfulam. Building work started on a large primary school at Tsun Wan, in the New Territories, and working drawings for three 24-classroom primary schools-two in Kowloon and one in Hong Kong,-together with extensive additions to the Grantham Training College, were completed. Sketch plans for a new Technical College in Kowloon were prepared.
Work completed for the Department of Medical and Health Services included the Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital, new quarters for nursing staff and for housemen at the Queen Mary Hospital, a Government Chemical Laboratory, a health centre at Saikung, and extensions to the Maurine Grantham Health Centre at Tsun Wan. A start was made on site formation for a new Mental Hospital near Castle Peak, and on the first block of buildings for it. Sketch plans were started for a new polyclinic at Sai Ying Pun. Messrs. Easton & Robertson completed and submitted to the Government their final sketch designs for the proposed Kowloon General Hospital.
For the Police Department, Western Police Station, on Hong Kong Island, was completed, and building work began on an eight-storey block of rank-and-file quarters within the station compound. Good progress was made on major extensions to Eastern and Yaumati Police Stations. Working drawings were completed for married quarters and a barrack block at the New Territories Depôt, Fanling, and working drawings were in hand for inspectorate quarters at Western Police Station.
The Government Printing Workshops at North Point, and the Government Mechanical Workshops at Caroline Hill, were completed. So too were ten-storey blocks of flats for civil