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servants at last came into being, and working drawings were finished for redeveloping the Mount Nicholson Bungalows site with 80 quarters in four separate but related buildings.
Sketch plans were finally approved for the extension and fresh workshops and offices of the Electrical and Mechanical Depot at Caroline Hill. This scheme will also include new headquarters for the Civil Aid Services. Other approved sketch plans were for the Electrical and Mechanical Workshops in Kowloon; a multi- storey car park for about 750 cars on part of the former Murray Parade Ground; and a composite building for regular and civilian services clubs and a police post at the nearby Beaconsfield Arcade site.
Work on public amenities included site formation for Fa Hui Park, and Fortress Hill Playground; the building of six public latrines and bathhouses; a children's library at Argyle Street Playground and a similar library together with a model boat pond and other buildings at Victoria Park; and hawker bazaars and cooked food stalls in various districts.
The last phase in the redevelopment of Kai Tak Airport opened when work began on the new Terminal Building and the Aircraft Maintenance Depot.
In the New Territories a combined Government building to serve as a Fire Station, Post Office and Sanitation Store was under construction at Peng Chau Island and sketch plans for similar buildings at Tai O, North Lantau and Sha Tau Kok were passed.
Drainage. There are water-borne sewage systems in nearly all built-up areas, including the larger towns in the New Territories. As large new blocks of flats take the place of very old buildings, the flow to the sewers is steadily increasing, with the unfortunate but inevitable result that many of the older sewers are becoming loaded beyond their designed capacity and the nuisance from seawall sewer outfalls has grown; but there is a steady programme to replace them with larger mains. Approval of large schemes to build intercepting sewers in the place of the many seawall sewer outfalls will soon bring the sewage to selected sites where it will be treated and discharged into deep water through submarine outfalls. Pump houses have been installed in many cases to raise the sewage in the intercepting sewers when gravity flow has been impossible. Of the five schemes for the Kowloon Peninsula, the