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blocks were completed, providing accommodation for 198,000 people. Eleven 24-classroom primary schools were completed in resettlement estates.
The end of the year saw work continuing on 42 resettlement blocks and 12 low-cost housing blocks (which will provide accom- modation for 240,000 people) in addition to 29 estate schools, providing a total of 696 classrooms. At the close of the year seven single-storey restaurant buildings were nearing completion in estates and work was also proceeding on the first six-storey estate welfare building with a rooftop playground. Preparatory works were in hand on nine sites for estates with a future total capacity of 283,000 people and planning was in progress to provide accom- modation for a further 462,000 people on 11 new sites.
Other projects completed on Hong Kong Island included a Fire Services headquarters at North Point, a two-bay fire station in Kennedy Town and a post office at Sai Ying Pun, housing on its upper floors a children's playground and library and government staff quarters. Quarters for abattoir junior staff were completed at Kennedy Town and two two-storey office blocks were built on the government piers at the central reclamation. Substructure work was completed for a 24-storey government office block on the former Murray Barracks site. A language laboratory was built at Northcote College of Education and the first phase of further alterations to provide additional beds at Queen Mary Hospital was finished. Other works completed included children's playgrounds and an additional children's library.
In Kowloon, major works included a 20-classroom extension to the Hong Kong Technical College, the Yau Ma Tei Health Centre, 791 quarters for police rank-and-file at Wong Tai Sin, a two-bay fire station and married quarters at Ngau Chi Wan and an ambu- lance depot at Ma Tau Chung. The biggest building completed was the 20-storey Kowloon Central Post Office, which also houses other government offices. A clinic was finished at the police quarters in Tin Kwong Road, and two additional storeys were added to the original single-storey maternal and child health centre at Kowloon City. Quarry buildings, stores and offices were completed at Diamond Hill. Two children's playgrounds were constructed,