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At the end of the year planning and preparatory work was in hand or construction was about to start on several resettlement and low-cost housing estates which will provide future accommodation for a further 330,000 people.
Many varied and interesting projects were completed during the year, of which the most notable on Hong Kong Island were a tech- nical institute at Morrison Hill for which the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club provided the total funds, a multi-storey car park on the central reclamation, a large sports ground at Aberdeen, the Lady Trench Children's Day Nursing and Training Centre at Morrison Hill, which was financially assisted by a donation from Sir Shiu-kin Tang and the 27-storey Murray Building in Garden Road which houses various offices of the Public Works Department.
Amongst the many buildings completed in Kowloon were the Canton Road Fire Station and District Headquarters, the first stage of a multi-storey car park in Yau Ma Tei, three blocks of Police Inspectorate quarters and a block of service flats at Ho Man Tin, additional staff quarters and a convalescent ward block at Kowloon Hospital, a secondary technical school at Kwun Tong, a large swimming pool complex at Morse Park and major modi- fications to the Kai Tak terminal building. The secondary technical school and the swimming pool complex were financed from dona- tions by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Projects under construction at the end of the year included an extension to the Air Traffic Control Centre at Kai Tak Airport, three fire stations, the reprovisioning of the Aberdeen Fisheries Office and Marine Licensing Station, a block of government offices and a magistracy in North-East Kowloon and at Tsuen Wan, education television studios in Broadcast Drive, a number of departmental and non-departmental quarters in Hong Kong and Kowloon, a clinic at Kwai Chung North, a mental hospital for the Prisons Department at Siu Lam, a training centre at Dragon's Back, parks and playgrounds at Cheung Sha Wan, Tsuen Wan and Kwun Tong and site formation for a Medical Department laundry at Shau Kei Wan. Also under construction were a hospital for the mentally sub-normal at Siu Lam, the Kai Tak East Play- ground, King's Park sports ground and a secondary technical