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Resettlement Department staff quarters were also under construc- tion at a number of the estates. A total of 15 low-cost housing buildings were in course of construction at Kwun Tong, Wong Tai Sin, Shek Kip Mei and Valley Road.
Building was in progress on the 1,320-bed Queen Elizabeth Hospital and on six clinics, and also on quarters adjacent to the hospital site. These, together with another project at Mount Nicholson on Hong Kong Island, will provide a total of 156 quarters for senior Government officers. Quarters were also in course of construction for junior Government personnel, including 1,450 married quarters for rank and file members of the police. Wong Tai Sin divisional police station, three police posts in the New Territories and a police training school on Hong Kong Island were also being built. Other buildings in course of construction included a welfare centre at Aberdeen, a multi-storey park for about 700 cars on the former Murray Parade Ground, a public park and swimming pool at Kowloon Tsai, the 20-storey Kowloon central post office with departmental Government offices on the upper floors, electrical and mechanical workshops in Kowloon, a number of schools and many smaller projects.
A large number of Government buildings were in various stages of design, including 10 schools, major extensions to the Queen Mary Hospital, 10 health centres and clinics for various districts, two large abattoirs, four public markets, a number of public play- grounds and rest gardens, three fire stations, three police stations and two operational bases for, the marine police, a police training contingent depot and a number of police quarters, a short-term prison at Tong Fuk on Lantau Island, a community centre in Kowloon, the Chuk Yuen children's reception centre, a probation home in Kowloon, Cheung Sha Wan post office, a number of com- bined departmental office buildings in urban and outlying districts, various grades of quarters for Government servants, a multi-storey car park, an animal quarantine depot at Tai Lam and quarantine kennels in Kowloon. In addition to these and many smaller build- ings, plans were in various stages of progress for further large resettlement housing and low-cost housing estates. These neces- sitate careful planning in order to form the required sites and provide the necessary services for the annual resettlement of 100,000 squatters and 20,000 persons in the lower income groups.