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Training Centre and the Staff Training School. The first three are security prisons and the remainder open institutions.
During 1962 there was considerable progress in the building programme and a fine new mess hall, kitchen and recreation room were built for single warders at Stanley. New classrooms, work- shops, kitchen, dining hall and staff quarters were completed at Cape Collinson, while new married quarters for warders were occupied at Tai Lam. At Chi Ma Wan Prison staff quarters are being built entirely by prison labour for the first time and will be ready for occupation in the spring of 1963. The contract for water supply to the new prison at Tong Fuk, on Lantau Island, was let during the year. Tong Fuk will be the first prison to be built as such since Stanley Prison in 1937, as all other new institutions are in adapted buildings.
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A site was chosen for the new Prisons Department Mental Hospital. Meanwhile staff are being trained at Castle Peak Mental Hospital and in the psychiatric observation unit in Victoria Prison. The rehabilitation programme for drug addicts at Tai Lam con- tinued to produce very encouraging results and the after-care service is being expanded, since much obviously depends upon the number of ex-prisoners who can be sympathetically supervised. The two training centres, with a joint average success rate of 71.62 per cent, are a source of pride to the department. The great majority of boys are found a job before leaving and the high success rate proves the value of the training system.
The staff of the Prisons Department includes 17 gazetted officers, 837 other ranks, and 190 executive officers, interpreter-translators, clerks, school-masters, social welfare officers, trade instructors, mechanics, storekeepers, telephone operators, messengers and labourers.
RECORDS
The Registrar General's Department comprises the Land Office, the Registries of Births and Deaths, Marriages, Companies, Trade Marks and Patents, the Offices of the Official Receiver in Bank- ruptcy and Companies Winding-up, the Official Trustee, the Judicial Trustee, and the Official Solicitor in Lunacy.
Land Office. The Land Office is a public office for the registra- tion of deeds and other instruments affecting land. The system