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floors at the other; this has added considerably to the complexity of the structure. An underground car park is provided for approximately 140 cars. Further office space is incorporated in the designs, by private architects, for three magistracies, of which that at Causeway Bay is under construction while the two at Western District and North Kowloon are at the drawing board stage. A new court is also being designed for the New Territories. For the Prisons Department, site formation was completed and construction work started towards the end of the year on the prison officers' quarters at Arbuthnot Road beside Victoria Prison. This scheme will provide sixteen flats for prison officers in an eight-storey block with garages below, an eleven-storey block containing forty two married warders' quarters and a third block with barrack accommodation for forty warders. In addition, building work was started on a pair of houses for prison officers at Chi Ma Wan Prison on Lantau Island. Cape Collinson Camp was taken over from the Army and converted for use as a vocational training centre for young offenders.
During the year the Resettlement Department programme was advanced by the construction of 9,800 rooms for 49,000 settlers in estates at Tai Wan Hill, Lo Fu Ngam, Wong Tai Sin and Li Cheng Uk, while site formation and construction were started for estates at Jordan Valley, Kwun Tong and Chai Wan, the latter being the first estate on Hong Kong Island. The Jordan Valley and Chai Wan schemes each include a five-storied block of factory units to provide working space for the numerous small industries that are displaced when squatter areas are cleared. A workers' canteen is provided at roof level on each of these factory blocks.
Schemes for the Urban Services Department include a large crematorium at Sai Wan on Hong Kong Island for which a start was made on the working drawings. For Victoria Park, drawings were in course of preparation for a refreshment kiosk, and further investigations were being made for a band stand or orchestral shell. Construction of parks and playgrounds progressed at Bowen Road, Cornwall Street, Argyle Street and three resettlement estates, as did the planning and construction of eight public latrines and bath-houses. Private architects were working on plans for two new abattoirs at Kennedy Town and Cheung Sha Wan, as well as a market at So Kon Po and development schemes at