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stations and a group of 669 married quarters for police rank and file at North Point. Other buildings at various stages of construc- tion were four clinical buildings; separate health offices and a beach building at Stanley; an Urban Services Department depot at Sai Yee Street and a market at Kam Tin; a multi-storey car park for 912 cars at Tsim Sha Tsui; the Western Magistracy; Aberdeen Rehabilitation Centre; a children's reception centre and the Kwun Tong Community Centre; a number of quarters for Government servants and a variety of other smaller projects. Con- struction was also starting on a large 19-storey building on Nathan Road to provide a Kowloon Central Post Office with Government offices on the upper floors.
Designs and details of 70 Government-buildings of all types were in course of preparation which, in addition to schools, clinics and health centres, police stations and fire stations, quarters build- ings, markets, office buildings and depots, and latrines and bath houses, included major extensions to Queen Mary Hospital; pre- liminary investigation for a further large hospital at Lai Chi Kok; alterations to the old Kowloon Hospital; two large new abattoirs by consultants, one on Hong Kong Island and the other in Kowloon; Fire Services Training School and a depot for the Police Training Contingent; Tong Fuk Short Term Prison; extensions to buildings at Kai Tak airport; and preliminary plans for a large Hong Kong General Post Office and Government offices.
The programme, of resettlement and low-cost housing progressed vigorously, and during the year 33 Mark II domestic blocks of resettlement housing were completed, providing 16,500 domestic rooms for about 82,500 people. Shops, social welfare centres, estate offices and schools were provided in the ground floor rooms of these buildings. Two flatted factories at San Po Kong were also finished. At the end of the year, construction was in progress on a total of 138 Mark III type blocks at the following estates: Kwai Chung Central; Tsz Wan Shan, Yau Tong Bay, Sau Mau Ping, Tai Wo Hau III, Chai Wan III and Tin Wan at Aberdeen. These eight-storey buildings provide living accommodation on either side of central corridors and when completed will house about 155,000 people. Construction was also in progress at Chai Wan on three 16-storey Mark IV resettlement blocks and on three more at Tung Tau and Tsz Wan Shan, to provide accommodation for about