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to allow for extension. A private architect was preparing a scheme for additional laboratories at the Technical College. In a previous year the Public Works Department had produced designs for a five-storied, twenty four-classroom standard primary school for 1,080 children, which would fit onto a site of about 24,000 square feet. In view of the shortage of land and consequent smallness of the sites the design incorporates play areas on the flat roofs and an open-sided play and assembly area under the building at ground level. One school of this type was completed in 1958 at Li Cheng Uk, while a second, at Cheung Hong Street, was in the early stages of construction; work had started at four other sites. In areas where sites are particularly difficult to find, the feasibility of building thirty-classroom schools by the addition of a further floor to the standard school designs is being examined. For King's College secondary school, working drawings were completed for the addition of classrooms and laboratories. Work- ing drawings were also started for new buildings for Northcote Training College at Pok Fu Lam; this scheme will provide accom- modation for 400 students, with a hostel for 200 and flats for four wardens and their families. In addition to this work by the Public Works Department, six primary schools by private architects were completed, while working drawings were in hand by private architects for additions to, or the rebuilding of, four more schools.
Standard three-bay fire stations for the Fire Brigade were completed at Yuen Long and Tsuen Wan in the New Territories and at Ma Tau Chung in Kowloon. The construction of two small fire stations was started at Cheung Chau Island and Tuen Mun San Hui, while working drawings were started for a combined building at Peng Chau to house a fire station, a post office, and stores and quarters for the New Territories Administration. Site work had started by the end of the year for a post office at Sheung Shui in the New Territories, which will include some departmental living quarters at first floor level.
The West Wing, which is the final stage of the Central Govern- ment Offices on Hong Kong Island, was nearing completion by the end of the year. This building, which will accommodate the offices of several Government departments, is built on a very steeply sloping site and has six floors at one end and thirteen