PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES
179
the Old French Mission Building into Victoria District Court, two 12-storey blocks of Police Inspectorate quarters, a number of additional quarters for fire stations, floodlighting of the Supreme Court building, an urban clinic and maternity home at Chai Wan, motor vehicle inspection facilities at So Kon Po, a beach building at Turtle Cove and improvements to Cape Collinson military cemetery. Substructure work for the Technical Institute at Morrison Hill was nearing completion by the end of the year. Other works completed included several playgrounds and public amenity areas and work was in hand on many others.
In Kowloon projects completed included a two-bay fire station at Hung Hom, two extensions to Kai Tak Air Terminal building, a combined training centre for mentally defective children and adults at Kwun Tong, a temporary market at Kwun Tong, a number of additional quarters for fire stations, several parks and playgrounds, including Morse Park (funds for which were provided by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club), modernization of St George's School and an RAF welfare centre at Sunderland Road. Substructure work for the new convalescent ward block at Kowloon Hospital was completed and work on the main building was started. The new Radio Hong Kong building was nearing completion.
In the New Territories work completed included a secondary school at Yuen Long built from funds raised by the Heung Yee Kuk, quarters for railway workers at Sha Tin, quarters for the Electrical and Mechanical Office at Fan Gardens and a maintenance depot at Silver Mine Bay, a police station at Man Kam To, motor vehicle inspection facilities at Tsuen Wan, Cheung Chau Middle School, dormitory accommodation at Shek Pik Training Centre, a dental clinic at Tong Fuk, and several sports grounds, playgrounds, rest gardens and other amenities, a post office and fire station at Rennie's Mill, animal pounds at Sha Tin, departmental quarters and school at Au Tau, and various improvements to junior ranks clubs at army camps.
Projects under construction at the end of the year included the 24-storey government office block on the former Murray Barracks site, the prison staff training school at Stanley, a women's prison at Tai Lam, an abattoir at Cheung Sha Wan, a technical institute at Morrison Hill and a secondary technical school at Kwun Tong,