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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES
At the end of the year, planning and preparatory work was in hand or construc- tion work was about to start on several resettlement and government low-cost housing estates which will, on completion, provide accommodation for a further 420,000 people.
Many varied and interesting projects were completed during the year. On Hong Kong Island the most notable of these were: a swimming pool at Morrison Hill, for which the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club provided the total funds; a vaccine insti- tute at Pok Fu Lam; a new clinical building at Queen Mary Hospital; a laundry for the Medical and Health Department at Shau Kei Wan; a training centre for Prisons Department at Shek O Road; a market at Shau Kei Wan; and a total of 49 non- departmental quarters for government staff.
Among the many buildings completed in Kowloon were the Cheung Sha Wan Fire Station; an ambulance depot at King's Park; staff quarters at Lai Chi Kok Incinerator and for the Preventive Service at Hung Hom; a motor vehicle service station for the Electrical and Mechanical Office of the Public Works Department; an off-street refuse collection centre at Canton Road; the first stage of the improve- ments to the Kowloon Sorting Office for the Post Office; and the first stage of Hoi Sham Park, To Kwa Wan, this latter project being financed by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Work completed in the New Territories included a secondary technical school at Kwai Chung; fire stations at Fanling and Kwai Chung; a hospital for the mentally sub-normal and a mental hospital both at Siu Lam; the first stage of the Tsuen Wan/ Kwai Chung Polyclinic; a columbarium at Wo Hop Shek Cemetery; beach buildings at Clear Water Bay Beach and Cheung Chau; and the first stage of Fanling Recreation Ground. The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club provided the funds for the hospital for the mentally sub-normal at Siu Lam and the Tsuen Wan/Kwai Chung Polyclinic.
Projects under construction at the end of the year included a college of edu cation at Piper's Hill; a secondary school at Sha Tin; a fire station at Yau Tong; a multi-storey car park at Murray Road; a training school for the Preventive Service; the new Lai Chi Kok General Hospital and combined staff quarters to serve both this new hospital and a new mental hospital which is to be sited adjacent to the general hospital. Also under construction were a clinic and maternity home at Tsz Wan Shan; the new Police Headquarters building, police stations at Happy Valley, Chai Wan, Ngau Tau Kok and Tsz Wan Shan; the second stage of the Kennedy Town Swimming Pool, Tsuen Wan Swimming Pool and Park; combined latrine and bathhouse buildings at Mongkok Road and Apliu Street; and markets at Wong Tai Sin and Shek Tong Tsui. Several playgrounds, amenity areas, latrines, hawker bazaars and floodlighting schemes were also in hand.
At the end of the year, design, working drawings and contract documents were in preparation for more than 200 projects including the fourth stage of the modi- fications to the terminal buildings at Kai Tak International Airport; technical insti- tutes at Kwun Tong and Tsuen Wan; fire stations at Chung Hom Kok and the airport; a second block of government offices in Garden Road; a judiciary building in Gascoigne Road; a mental hospital at Lai Chi Kok; 11 police stations and a police