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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES
Station. Construction of the seawall fronting Wan Chai reclamation was nearing completion. The old rigid-fendering system protecting the poultry pier at Kennedy Town was replaced with a new spring- fendering system.
In Kowloon, a passenger-ferry pier and a seawall fronting the bus and ferry concourse at Tai Kok Tsui was completed. At Yau Ma Tei a new seawall was being constructed inside the existing typhoon shelter to permit reclamation for the extension of Tong Mi Road. Construction of a passenger-ferry pier at Kwun Tong was nearing completion.
Work started on a second incinerator at Lai Chi Kok.
In the New Territories, a seawall was completed at Castle Peak as was a breakwater at Yim Tin Tsai, Sai Kung; the latter will provide a typhoon shelter of about 28 acres in Port Shelter. At Sai Kung Town an area was reclaimed for a latrine and bathhouse. Construction was commenced at Shek Pik on a new pier for use by villagers and personnel of the nearby Training Centre and Tong Fuk Prison. Dredging work for improving the natural anchorage at Chek Keng, Long Harbour, commenced in July. The construction of a spring-fendering system for the Tsing Yi Public Pier continued. Improvement of the existing breakwater at Three Fathoms Cove was started and further navigational beacons were provided at Junk Island and at the cross-connection chamber for the submarine pipeline off Chau Kung Island.
LAND DEVELOPMENT
Progress at the two new towns of Kwun Tong and Tsuen Wan included the formation of 5.1 acres of land and 31.7 acres of reclamation. At Kwun Tong 1.8 acres of terraced sites were formed and 18 acres were reclaimed from Kowloon Bay for industrial development. At Tsuen Wan-Kwai Chung, 17 acres of land were formed, comprising 3.3 acres of formed hillside sites and adjacent roads for government low-cost housing and 13.7 acres of reclama- tion at Gin Drinker's Bay.
In Kowloon, development of land for low-cost housing, schools, government and institutional uses included about four acres of terraced sites at Ho Man Tin, 6.7 acres at Pak Tin and 0.25 acres