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Fourteen resettlement blocks and 13 government low-cost housing blocks were completed during the year, providing accommodation for some 104,000 people. Twelve 24-classroom primary schools, eight two-storey restaurants and nine kindergartens were also com- pleted in resettlement and government low-cost housing estates. At the end of the year work was continuing on 15 resettlement and 37 low-cost housing blocks which will provide accommodation for 194,000 people. In addition, 14 estate schools providing a total of 336 primary classrooms, three two-storey restaurants and 18 kinder- gartens were in the course of construction.
Improvements to the electrical wiring in Mark I and II resettle- ment blocks continued. This work was completed at the Lei Cheng Uk estate and was in hand at the Wong Tai Sin estate. The construction of modular markets was completed at three resettlement estates and similar facilities will be provided in all estates now under construc- tion and in future ones. The provision of restaurant facilities in government low-cost housing estates was also approved during the year and the first restaurant building was completed at Lei Muk Shue estate in conjunction with the modular market complex.
At the end of the year planning and preparatory works were in hand on several resettlement and low-cost housing estates which will provide accommodation for a further 350,000 people.
Projects completed on Hong Kong Island included the David Trench Rehabilitation Centre for the physically handicapped, two blocks of police inspectorate quarters and a number of non-depart- mental quarters. Several playgrounds and public amenity areas were also finished and others were under construction.
Amongst the many buildings 'completed in Kowloon were a secondary technical school at North Kowloon, a fire station at King's Park, a block of government offices and a magistracy at Wong Tai Sin, sports grounds at King's Park and Cheung Sha Wan, and educational television studios at Broadcast Drive.
In the New Territories the projects completed included a play- ground at Tsuen Wan, a beach building at Cheung Chau, a magistracy at Tsuen Wan, a standard clinic at Kwai Chung, and a mental hospital for the Prisons Department at Tai Lam.
Projects under construction at the end of the year included swim- ming pool complexes at Morrison Hill and at Kennedy Town, a secondary school at Sha Tin, fire stations at Cheung Sha Wan, Yau Tong and Kwai Chung, an ambulance depot at King's Park, a multi- storey car park at Murray Road, the new Lai Chi Kok Hospital,