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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

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at Cheung Sha Wan and Tsuen Wan; additions to Castle Peak Mental Hospital; Cheung Sha Wan Post Office with abattoir staff quarters above; a short-term prison at Tong Fuk on Lantau Island; Kowloon Probation Home; Tai Hang Tung Community Centre; flats for the rehousing of Plover Cove villagers; Sham Tseng Market; and a number of playgrounds, public latrines and other public amenities.

New buildings under construction at the end of the year included extensions to the Hong Kong Technical College; Fire Services Department headquarters, Hong Kong; four new fire stations and an ambulance depot; a Fire Services_training school, head- quarters and ambulance depot at Sek Kong; foundation work for a large office building in the former Murray Barracks area; Yau Ma Tei Health Centre, which was nearing completion; two clinics; further staged development of the Aberdeen Police Training School; 48 police inspectorate quarters at Park Road and 791 police rank and file married quarters at Wong Tai Sin; Kowloon Central Post Office building with 15 floors of general office space above; Sai Ying Pun Post Office with quarters above; a large abattoir at Kennedy Town and a similar one at Cheung Sha Wan; abattoir junior staff quarters at Kennedy Town; playgrounds and other public amenities.

At the end of the year designs, working drawings and contract documents were in hand for about 70 major projects, chief of which were a 1,300-bed hospital at Lai Chi Kok; a large new chronic ward building at Kowloon Hospital; a number of schools; a mental defectives' home and a Prisons Department mental hospital; various police buildings; a market; two large public swimming pool projects; and a new building for Radio Hong Kong.

DRAINAGE

All the urban areas and the newly developing townships have water-borne sewerage systems in various stages of development. In many of the older urban areas the sewers were constructed 50 or more years ago and are no longer adequate to serve the large blocks of flats now being erected in place of older, smaller buildings. A comprehensive survey of the sewerage systems draining into the harbour has been completed and a programme of work has