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CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION
Departments, the Post Office and the Royal Observatory in Chapter 15. The Information Services Department and Radio Hong Kong are described in Chapter 16. Chapter 7 describes the work of the Agriculture and Forestry Department, and of the Co-operative Development and Fisheries Department.
The Fire Brigade, which is under the control of a Chief Officer, provides fire protection throughout the urban areas, for the main districts of the New Territories, and for shipping in the harbour. Additional fire stations are now under construction to increase fire cover for the Colony as part of a scheme of planned develop- ment for the ten years to 1970. The Brigade has 1,176 officers and other ranks, with 62 mobile fire appliances, 3 fire boats and 26 ambulances.
The Stores Department, under a Controller, buys and distributes Government stores, manufactures and repairs all furniture for offices and quarters, and administers the Government monopoly of sand. The Printing Department, under the Government Printer, is responsible for all Government publications, most of which are produced entirely in the department itself; this Report is itself a typical example. The Quartering Authority deals with accom- modation for civil servants.
NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION
The New Territories are divided into five administrative districts: Yuen Long in the north-west; Tai Po in the north-east; Tsuen Wan, which includes the industrial town of Tsuen Wan, the islands of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan and part of north-east Lantau; Islands, which include the rest of Lantau and all the islands in territorial waters south and west of Hong Kong Island; and Sai Kung, which covers the southern part of the Sai Kung Peninsula and the Clear Water Bay Peninsula as well as the adjacent islands. Each of the five districts is administered by a District Officer. The District Office for Yuen Long is at Ping Shan and that for Tai Po is at Tai Po Market. The Tsuen Wan District Office is in Tsuen Wan itself, whilst the Islands and Sai Kung District Offices, which were established on 1st September 1960 in place of the former Southern District Office, share offices in Kowloon. The District Commissioner, with an office in Kowloon